G/TBT/N/ECU/367  
16 April 2019 
(19-2530) 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 : ECUADOR  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2  and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  
Servicio Ecuatoriano de Normalización , INEN (Ecuadorian Standardization Service)  
Calle Baquerizo Moreno E8 -29 y Diego de Almagro  
Tel.: (+593 -2) 3825960 to 90  
Website : www.normalizacion.gob.ec  
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:  
Subsecretaría de Calidad  (Under -Secretariat for Quality)  
Ministerio de Producción, Comercio Exterior, Inversiones y Pesca , MPCEIP (Ministry of 
Production, Foreign Trade, Investment and Fisheries)  
Address : Av. Amazonas entre Unión Nacional de Periodistas y Alfonso Pereira, Piso 8, 
Bloque amarillo  
Tel.: (+593 -2) 3948760, Ext. 2254 and 2272  
Email: puntocontactoOTCECU@produccion.gob.ec ; 
puntocontactoOTCECU@gmail.com ; aramon@produccion.gob.ec ; 
cyepez@produccion.gob.ec ; jsanchez@produccion.gob.ec  
Website: http://www.in dustrias.gob.ec/  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ ], other:   
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading . ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable) : Nuts, 
ground -nuts and other seeds, whether or not mixed together (HS 20081) ; Prepared foods 
obtained by the swelling or roasting of cereals or cereal products (HS 190410) ; Prepared 
foods obtained from unroasted cereal flakes or from mixtures of unroasted cereal flakes 
and roasted cereal flakes or swelled cereals (HS 190420) ; Flours, meals and pellets, of 
meat or meat offal ; greaves (HS 230110) ; (ICS: 45.080, 67.040)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de 
Segunda Revisión del Reg lamento Técnico Ecuatoriano PRTE INEN 060 (2R) "Bocaditos"  
(Draft second revision (2R) of Ecuadorian Standardization Institute Technical Regulation 
(PRTE INEN) No. 060 "Snack foods") (8 pages(s), in Spanish)  
6. Description of content:  The notified Technical Regulation establishes the requirements 
to be met by snack foods, prior to the marketing of domestic and imported products, with 
the aim of protecting human health and preventing misleading practices.  
The notified Technical Regulation applies to the following products:  
1. Fried or roasted grains, cereals and seeds that are marketed whole and in packaged 
form, such as toasted corn, ground nuts, broad beans, chickpeas and seeds;  G/TBT/N/ECU/367  
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  2. Pig skin and pig skin by -products;  
3. Fried or roasted products of p lant origin marketed in packaged form, such as flakes, 
extruded products and swelled grains and cereals.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Consumer information ; labelling ; prevention of misleading practices ; 
consumer protection ; protection of human health and safety.  
8. Relevant documents:  
Regulatory references:  
1. Ecuadorian Technical Standard  NTE INEN 2561:2010, Bocaditos de productos 
vegetales . Requisitos ; 
2. Ecuadorian Technical Standard NTE IN EN 2562:2010, Bocaditos de cuero de cerdo . 
Requisitos ; 
3. Ecuadorian Technical Standard NTE INEN 2570:2011, Bocaditos de granos, cereales 
y semillas ; 
4. Ecuadorian Technical Standard NTE INEN -CODEX 192 : 2016, Norma general para 
los aditivos alimentarios (CODEX STAN 192 -1995, IDT) ; 
5. CODEX STAN 193 -1995:2018, General Standard for Contaminants and Toxins in 
Food and Feed;  
6. Ecuadorian Standardization Institute Technical Regulation RTE INEN 022 (2R):2014 
+ corrigendo 1:2015, Rotulado de productos alimenticios procesados, envasados y 
empaquetados . 
TRACEABILITY:  
1. G/TBT/N/ECU/76  
2. G/TBT/N/ECU/76/Add.1  
3. G/TBT/N/ECU/76/Add.2  
4. G/TBT/N/ECU/76/Add.3  
9. Proposed date of adoption : 165 days from the date of notification  
Proposed date of entry into for ce: 180 days from date of adoption  
10. Final date for comments : 60 days from the date of 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:  
Contact and/or National Enquiry Point:  
Subsecretaría de Calidad  (Under -Secretariat for Quality)  
Ministerio de Producción, Comercio Exterior, Inversiones y Pesca , MPCEIP (Ministry of 
Production, Foreign Trade, Investment and Fisheries)  
Address : Av. Amazonas entre Unión Nacional de Periodistas y Alfonso Pereira, Piso 8, 
Bloque amarillo  
Tel.: (+593 -2) 3948760, Ext. 2254 and 2272  
Email: puntocontactoOTCECU@produccion.gob.ec ; 
puntocontactoOTCECU@gmail.com ; aramon@produccion.gob.ec  
cyepez@produccion.gob.ec ; jsanchez@produccion.gob.ec  
http://www.normalizacion.gob.ec/  
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