. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/COL/180 
20 August 2012 
 (12-4516) 
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):   Clean fuels 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Proyecto de 
Resolución del Ministerio de Minas y Energía, del Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social 
y del Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible "Por la cual se modifica la 
Resolución 2604 de 2009"  (Draft Resolution of the Ministry of Mines and Energy, the 
Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and the Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development "Amending Resolution No. 2604 of 2009") (6 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   Amendments to Article 3, Article  5, paragraph 2 of Article 7, and 
Article 14 of Resolution No. 2604 of 24 Dece mber 2009;  Deletion of paragraph 5 of 
Article 8 of Resolution No. 2604 of 24 Dece mber 2009;  Addition of a paragraph to 
Article 8 of Resolution No. 2604 of 24 D ecember 2009;  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 No. 2604 del 24 de Diciembre de 2009 de los 
Ministerios de Minas y Energía, de la Protección Social y de Ambiente, Vivienda y 
Desarrollo Territorial, "Por la cual se det erminan los combustibles limpios teniendo como 
criterio fundamental el contenido de sus componentes, se reglamentan los límites máximos de emisión permisibles en prueba dinámica para los vehículos que se vinculen a la 
prestación del servicio público de transporte t errestre de pasajeros y para motocarros que 
se vinculen a la prestación del servicio públic o de transporte automotor mixto y se adoptan 
otras disposiciones" (Resolution No. 2604 of 24 December 2009 of the Ministry of Mines G/TBT/N/COL/180 
Page 2  
 
  and Energy, the Ministry of Social Welfare a nd the Ministry of the Environment, Housing 
and Territorial Development "Determining the fuel s that are considered to be clean, the key 
criterion being the components thereof;  regulating, by means of dynamic testing 
procedures, the maximum permissible emission levels for vehicles engaged in the provision 
of public passenger land transport services and for motorcycle rickshaws engaged in the 
provision of mixed public transport ser vices;  and adopting other provisions"). 
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) 1 606-4775 & (+57) 1 606-7676, Ext. 1690 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: http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2012/tbt/COL/12_3243_00_s.pdf