G/TBT/N/CHL/523  
20 July 2020 
(20-4971) 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 : CHILE 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible : Superintendencia de Electricidad y Combustibles , SEC (Electricity 
and Fuel Board)  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notificati on shall be indicated if different from above:  
Subsecretaría de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales - Ministerio de Relaciones 
Exteriores de Chile  (Undersecretariat for International Economic Relations, Ministry of 
Foreign Affairs of Chile)  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ ], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [X], 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) : High and 
medium -pressure regulators for welding equipment, connected to welded portable 
cylinders for butane, propane, and their mixtures  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de 
Protocolo de Análisis Y/O Ensayos de Seguridad de Producto de Combustibles  (Draft safety 
analysis and/or test protocol for fuel products) (9 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified draft protocol establishes the certification 
procedure and safety requirements for "high and medium -pressure regulato rs for welding 
equipment, connected to welded portable cylinders for butane, propane, and their 
mixtures", in accordance with the scope and field of application of standard UNE -EN 
16129:2014.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent prob lems where 
applicable : Protection of human health or safety  
8. Relevant documents:  
• Decreto Supremo N° 298, del año 2005, del Ministerio de Economía, Fomento y 
Reconstrucción, Reglamento de Certificación de Productos Eléctricos y de 
Combustibles.  
• Resolución N° 0431, de fecha 23.08.2010, del Ministerio de Energía.  
• UNE-EN 16129:2014 - Pressure regulators, automatic change -over devices, 
having a maximum regulated pressure of 4 bar, with a maximum capacity of 150 
kg/h, associated safety devices and adaptors for butane, propane, and their 
mixtures.  G/TBT/N/CHL/523  
- 2 - 
  • https://nuevo.leychile.cl/navegar?idNorma=1016820  
• https://nuevo.leychile.cl/navegar?idNorma=246921&buscar=decreto%2B298%
2Bministerio%2Bde%2Beconomia  
9. Proposed date of adoption : - 
Proposed date of entry into force : - 
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:  
Subsecretaría de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales  (Undersecret ariat for 
International Economic Relations ) 
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores  de Chile  (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile)  
Teatinos 180, piso 11  
Tel.: (+56) 2 2827 5250  
Fax: (+56) 2 2380 9494  
Email: tbt_Chile@subrei.gob.cl  
https://www.sec.cl/consulta -publica/#1562021903705 -db277904 -ea8a 
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2020/TBT/CHL/20_4356_00_s.pdf