G/SPS/N/PER/934  
21 June 2021 
(21-5040) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
1. Notifying Member : PERU 
If applicable, name of local government involved:  
2. Agency responsible : Organismo Nacional de Sanidad Pesquera, SANIPES (National 
Fisheries Health Service)  
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national 
schedules deposited with the WTO ; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, 
where applicable) : Hydrobiological resources and products, and feed and veterinary 
products used in aquaculture  
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  
[X] All trading partners  
[ ] Specific regions or countries:  
5. Title of the notified document : Decreto Supremo que aprueba el Reglamento Sectorial 
de Inocuidad para las Actividades Pesqueras y Acuícolas  (Supreme Decree approving the 
Sectoral Regulation on the Safety of Fishing and Aquaculture Activities) Language(s) : 
Spanish Number of pages : 48 
Text available at:  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2021/SPS/PER/21_4107_00_s.pdf  
6. Description of content : The notified draft text seeks to establish the sanitary 
requirements relating to safety to be met during the conduct of fishing and a quaculture 
activities, at each stage of the production chain.  
7. Objective and rationale : [X] food safety , [ ] animal health , [ ] plant protection , 
[ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [ ] protect territory from 
other damage from pests.  
8. Is there a relevant international standard ? If so, identify the standard:  
[X] Codex Alimentarius Commission ( e.g. title or serial number of Codex 
standard or related text ): 
− CAC/RCP 1 -1969: General Princi ples of Food Hygiene.  
− Code of Practice for Fish and Fishery Products (CAC/ RCP 52 - 2003).  
− CAC/RCP 54 -2004: Code of Practice on Good Animal Feeding.  
− CAC/GL 88 -2016: Guidelines on the application of general principles of food 
hygiene to the control of foodborne parasites.  
− CXS 36 -1981: Codex Standard for Quick Frozen Finfish, Uneviscerated and 
Eviscerated . Last amended in 2017.  
− CXS 329 -2017: Codex Standard for Fish Oils . Adopted in 2017.  
− CXS 119 -1981, Rev. 1 -1995: Codex Standard for Canned Finfish . Last 
amended in 2018.  
− CODEX S TAN 167 -1989, Standard for Salted Fish and Dried Salted Fish of the 
Gadidae  Family of Fishes.  G/SPS/N/PER/934  
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  [ ] World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. T errestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number) : 
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. I SPM No.) : 
[ ] None  
Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?  
[X] Yes [ ] No 
If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:  
9. Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : To be determined  
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) : To be determined  
11. Proposed date of entry into force : [X] Six months from date of publication, 
and/or ( dd/mm/yy ): 180 calendar days after approval and publication in the Official 
Journal, El Peruano  
[ ] Trade facilitating measure  
12. Final date for comments : [X] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : 20 August 2 021 
Agency or authority designated to handle comments : [X] National Notification 
Authority, [X]  National Enquiry Point . Address, fax number and email address 
(if avai lable) of other body:  
13. Text(s) available from : [X] National Notification Authority, [X]  National Enquiry 
Point . Address, fax number and email address (if available) of other body:  
Mercedes Govea Requena, Director  
Dirección  Sanitaria y de Normatividad Pesquera y Acuícola  (Directorate of Fisheries and 
Aquaculture Health and Regulation)  
Av. Domingo Orué N°165, Lima 34, Peru  
Tel.: (+511) 213 8570, Ext. 7042  
Email : mercedes.govea@sanipes.gob.pe   
 Normativa.dsnpa@sanipes.gob.pe