G/TBT/N/CHL/502  
7 October  2019 
(19-6452) 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 : Ministerio de Salud, MINSAL - Subsecretaría de Salud Pública 
(Ministry of Health - Undersecretariat for Public Health)  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regardi ng the notification shall be indicated if different from above:  
Subsecretaría de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales, SUBREI - Ministerio de 
Relaciones Exteriores de Chile (Undersecretariat for International Economic Relations, 
Ministry of Foreign Affair s of Chile)  
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) : Portable 
external defibrillators  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de 
Norma que somete a control sanitario a desfibriladores portátiles (Draft Standard 
subjecting portable defibrillators to sanitary controls) (2 pages, in  Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified draft Standard incorporates into the control system 
established by Article 111 of the Health Code and the regulations thereto, approved by 
Ministry of Health Decree No. 825 of 1998, the following products and goods for medical 
use: portable external defibrillators.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Protection of human health or safety  
8. Relevant documents:  
• Ley N°21.156, Establece la obligación de disponer de desfibriladores externos 
automáticos portátiles en los establecimientos y recintos que indica ; 
• Código Sanitario, Decreto con Fuerza de Ley N°725, Ministerio de Salud ; 
•  Decreto Nº  825 de 1998, Aprueba Reglamento de Control de Productos y 
Elementos de Uso Médico, del Ministerio de Salud . 
https://www.minsal.cl/wp -content/upl oads/2019/09/Propuesta -regulaci%C3%B3n -
Equipos -Desfibriladores.pdf  
9. Proposed date of adoption : - 
Proposed date of entry into force : - G/TBT/N/CHL/502  
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  10. Final date for comments : 60 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:  
Subsecretaría de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales  - Ministerio de Relaciones 
Exteriores  de Chile  (Undersecretariat for International Economic Relations, M inistry of 
Foreign Affairs of Chile)  
Teatinos 180, piso 11  
Tel.: (+56)-2- 2827 5250  
Fax: (+56)-2- 2380 9494  
Email: Tbt_Chile@direcon.gob.cl  
https://www.minsal.cl/wp -content/uploads/2019/09/Propuesta -regulaci%C3%B3n -
Equipos -Desfibriladores.pdf  
https://www.minsal.cl/consultas -publicas -vigentes/  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2019/TBT/CHL/19_5504_00_s.pdf