G/TBT/N/CHL/522  
8 July 2020 
(20-4685) 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 (Ministry of Health)  
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 a bove:  
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 [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) : Milk 
products  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de 
Modificación del Artículo 107, Letra D), 109 y del Título VIII de las Leches y los Productos 
Lácteos, del Reglamento Sanitario de los Alimentos (Draft amendment to Article 107(d), 
Article 109 and Title VIII on milk and milk products of the Food Health Regulations) (10 
pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : Through parliamentary motions, the Joint Committee on 
Agriculture and, subsequently, the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate ap proved the draft 
law on the preparation, description and labelling of milk products or products deriving from 
milk. 
This draft text led to  Law No. 21179, which was published in the Official Journal on 2 
November 2 019 and will enter into force nine months f rom this date, on 3 August 2 020. 
This Law incorporates nine paragraphs into Article 105 of the Sanitary Code, which include 
definitions of milk (according to the species of animal) and the various technological 
treatments that it may undergo . They also inc orporate new front -of-pack labelling 
requirements for milk and milk products, including the requirement to indicate the name of 
the country of milking along with the image of the corresponding flag(s).  
The establishment under Law No. 21179 of new definitio ns for the description, labelling 
and processing of milk and milk products affects a number of articles of the Food Health 
Regulations on information on labels . This has resulted in the amendment of the current 
Article 107, to which provisions on labelling  indicating the country of milking and its flag 
shall be added . This Article shall also define the characteristics of this labelling . Moreover, 
Article 109 shall be amended so that a self -adhesive label containing the above -mentioned 
information can be added to products . The definition of milk in Article 109 shall also be 
amended, with the aim of ensuring that it is consistent with the definition set forth in the 
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  In addition, the classification of milk established in Article 204 and provisions on th e 
processing of milk and its labelling contained in Article 207 of the Food Health Regulations 
shall be amended, in order to ensure consistency and compliance with the Law . 
Furthermore, amendments shall be made to Article 208 on processing and authorizatio n 
records, Article 209 on requirements for structures storing milk and Article 234 on the 
labelling requirements for cheese.  
The notified amendment to the Food Health Requirements seeks to regulate the provisions 
of Law No. 21179, which can be downloaded a t: 
https://www.leychile.cl/Navegar?idNorma=1138206&buscar=ley+21179 . 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Consumer information, labelling ; Prevention of deceptive practices and 
consumer protection  
8. Relevant documents:  
• Ley 21179, Ley sobre elaboración, denominación y etiquetado de productos lácteos o 
derivados de la leche  
• Reglamento Sanitario de los Alimentos - RSA, Decreto 977/1996 del Ministerio de 
Salud  
9. Proposed date of adoption : - 
Proposed date of entry into force : - 
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:  
División de Aspectos Regulatorios del Comercio  (Trade Regulations Division)  
Subsecretaría de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales  
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores  de Chile  
Teatinos 1 80, piso 11, Santiago, Chile  
Tel.: (+56)-2 -2827 5250  
Fax: (+56)-2 -2380 9494  
Email: tbt_Chile@subrei.gob.cl  
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