G/TBT/N/GTM/103  
3 June 2021 
(22-4236) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.  
 
1. Notifying Member : GUATEMALA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:  
MINISTERIO DE SALUD PÚBLICA Y ASISTENCIA SOCIAL  (Ministry of Public Health and 
Social Welfare)  
Dirección General de Regulación, Vigilancia y Control de la Salud (Directorate -General of 
Health Regulation, Surveillance and Control)  
Departamento de Regulación  y Control de Productos Farmacéuticos y Afines  (Department 
for the Regulation and Control of Pharmaceutical and Related Products)  
Avenida Bolívar 28 -07, zona 8 . Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala.  
Tel.: (+502) 22312925 and (+502) 22312950  
ksagastume@mspas.gob.gt , sdonis@mspas.gob.gt  and zgonzalez@mspas.gob.gt  
Website : www.medicamentos.mspas.gob.gt  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:  
MINISTERIO DE SALUD PÚBLICA Y ASISTENCIA SOCIAL  
Dirección General de Regulación, Vigilancia y Control de la Salud  
Departamento de Regulación y Control de Productos Farmacéuticos y Afines  
Tel.: (+502) 22312925 and (+502) 22312950  
ksagastume@mspas.gob.gt , sdonis@mspas.gob.gt  and zgonzalez@mspas.gob.gt  
Website : www.medicamentos.mspas.gob.gt  
3. Notifie d under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ ], 3.2 [ ], 7.2 [ ], 
other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading . ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable) : 
Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti -sprouting products and plant -
growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up in forms or packings for 
retail sale or as preparations or articles (for example, sulphur -treated bands, wick s and 
candles, and fly -papers) (HS code(s) : 3808) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Norma Técnica 
84-2021 Versión 1 Registro Sanitario de Productos Repelentes de Uso Externo en 
Humanos y Productos Repelentes de Uso en Amb ientes  (Technical Standard No. 84-2021 
Version 1 : Sanitary Registration of Repellent Products for External Use in Humans and 
Spatial Repellent Products) (29 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified Technical Standard No. 84-2021 establishes 
requirements for the sanitary registration of repellent products for external use in humans 
and spatial repellent products, whether of natural (botanical extracts, essential or other 
natural oils) orig in or of synthetic (chemical) origin.  G/TBT/N/GTM/103  
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Guatemala has issued Technical Standard No. 84-2021 establishing 
requirements for repellent products for humans use and spatial rep ellent products to fulfil 
the requirements of Article 35 of Government Decision No. 115-99. The Technical 
Standard also seeks to complement Central American Technical Regulations on the 
registration and labelling of pesticides for domestic use and professi onal use, which do 
not include repellents . Furthermore, Guatemalan laws and the World Health Organization 
(WHO) classify repellents as pesticides.  
Urgent problems : the standardization of repellents was of vital importance as they help 
to prevent the spread of diseases that pose a threat to the country's population, including 
malaria, dengue and chikungunya, mosquitoes being the vectors of such diseases . 
Guatemala is a country with a high incidence of diseases transmitted by several mosquito 
genera.  
8. Relevant documents:  
1. Constitución política de la República de Guatemala . 
2. Código de Salud, Decreto Número 90 - 97 del Congreso de la República de 
Guatemala . 
3. Acuerdo Gubernativo No. 115-99. Reglamento Orgánico Interno del Ministerio de 
Salud Pública y Asiste ncia Social . 
4. Acuerdo Gubernativo Número 712 -99, Reglamento para el Control Sanitario de 
los Medicamentos y Productos Afines . 
5. Formulario de Solicitud de Registro Sanitario F-AS-f-06: Solicitud de registro 
sanitario de referencia de plaguicidas de uso domést ico y de uso profesional . 
https://medicamentos.mspas.gob.gt . 
9. Proposed date of adoption : 28 August 2 021 
Proposed date of entry into force : 24 September 2 021 
10. Final date for comments : 90 days from notification  
11. Texts available from : National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
https://medicamentos.mspas.gob.gt/index.php/legislacion -vigente/normas -tecnicas  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2022/TBT/GTM/22_3918_00_s.pdf