. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/COL/179 
20 August 2012 
 (12-4515) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original: Spanish 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Notifying Member:   COLOMBIA 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:   Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible  (Ministry of the 
Environment and Sustainable Development) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and e-mail and website 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   Ministerio de 
Comercio, Industria y Turismo (Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism) 
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):   Pollutants:  particulate 
matter (PM), total suspended particulat e (TSP) matter, ozone, NOx, SOx and CO. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Proyecto de 
Resolución del Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarr ollo Sostenible "Por la cual se modifica la 
Resolución 910 de 2008" (Draft  Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development 
Resolution Amending Resolution No. 910 of 2008) (19 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   Amendments to the exceptions contained in Article 2 and to 
Annexes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 and Article 18 of Resolution No. 910 of  5 June 2008;  Additions to 
Article 22 of Resolution No. 910 of 5 June 2008 ;  Dynamic test emissions certificate and 
Approval under the Montreal Protocol and On-board self-diagnostic systems. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human life and health and the environment. 
8. Relevant documents:   Resolución N° 0910 del 5 de Junio de 2008 del Ministerio de 
Ambiente, Vivienda y Desarrollo Territorial "Por la cual se reglamenta los niveles 
permisibles de emisión de contaminantes que deberán cumplir las fuentes móviles 
terrestres, se reglamenta el artículo 91 del Decreto 948 de 1995 y se adoptan otras 
disposiciones"  (Resolution No. 0910 of 5 June 2008 of the Ministry of the Environment, 
Housing and Territorial Development "Regula ting the permissible levels for pollutant 
emissions from land-based mobile sources, es tablishing regulations  under Article 91 of 
Decree No. 948 of 1995 and adopting other provisions"). G/TBT/N/COL/179 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  }Date on which the Resolution is signed. 
Date of publication in the Official Journal. 
10. Final date for comments:   8 November 2012 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry  point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and e-mail and website addresses, if available, of other body: 
Enquiry Point: 
 
Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo 
Dirección de Regulación Calle 28 N° 13A - 15, tercer piso Bogotá, D.C., Colombia Tel.: (+57) 1 606-7676, Ext. 1690 & (+57) 1 606-4775 Fax: (+57) 1 606-4777 
E-mail: Puntocontactotc-msf@mincomercio.gov.co  
 
Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible Dirección Asuntos Ambientales Sectorial y Urbana Calle 37 N° 8 - 40 
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia 
Tel: (+57) 1 332-3400, Ext. 1117 Telefax: (+57) 1 340-6212 E-mail: PaRodriguez@minambiente.gov.co  
Website: http://www.minambiente.gov.co  
 
Text also available at: 
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