G/TBT/N/CHL/430  
5 January  2018 
(18-0086) 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 Vivienda y Urbanismo  (Ministry of Housing and Urban 
Development)  
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 above:  
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores - Dirección General de Relaciones Económicas 
Internacionales (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Directorate -General of International Economic 
Relations)  
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) : Aluminium 
joinery  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Norma Chilena 
NCh523:2017 Carpintería de aluminio - Puertas y ventanas - Requisitos (Chilean Standard 
(NCh) No. 523:2017 Aluminium joinery - Doors and  windows - Requirements), (17 pages, 
in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified Standard establishes the requirements to be met by 
aluminium windows and doors to ensure their effective functioning, durability and user 
safety . It applies to windo ws and doors for use on the exterior and interior of houses, 
residential, commercial, institutional and educational buildings, health facilities and other 
similar buildings . It does not apply to security doors, heavy -duty non -residential doors 
such as thos e used in industrial warehouses, or rolling walls for access by the public and/or 
by vehicles or animals . It does not apply to aluminium curtain walls, although the moving 
or opening parts of such walls must meet the requirements established in this Standa rd. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents : Decreto Supremo N° 47 de 1992 (Ordenanza General de 
Urbanismo y Construcciones)  (Supreme Decree No. 47 of 1992 (General Ordinance on 
Urban Planning and Construction))  
9. Proposed date of adoption : - 
Proposed date of entry into force : - 
10. Final date for comments : 60 days from the date of notification.  G/TBT/N/CHL/430  
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  11. Texts available from : National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Dirección General de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales  (Directorate -General of 
International Economic Relations)  
Ministerio  de Relaciones Exteriores  (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)  
Teatinos 180, piso 11  
Tel.: (+56)- 2- 2827 5491  
Fax: (+56)-2 -2380 9494  
Email: mailto: tbt_chile@direcon.gob.cl  
Chilean Standard available online at: https://www.inncoleccion.cl/  
Company : DIRECON -017 
Username : direcon  
Password : direcon  
Email: tbt_chile@direcon.gob.cl