G/TBT/N/ECU/115  
22 November 2013  
(13-6428)  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:  ECUADOR 
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:  
Instituto Ecuatoriano de Normalización , INEN (Ecuadorian Standardization Institute) 
Baquerizo E8-29 y Almagro 
Quito, Ecuador Tel.: +593 2 250-1885 Fax: +593 2 256-7815 
Email: puntocontactoOTCECU@mipro.gob.ec  
Website: http://www.inen.gob.ec  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and email and website 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:  
Subsecretaría de la Calidad (Under-Secretariat for Quality) 
Ministerio de Industrias y Productividad , MIPRO (Ministry of Industry and Productivity) 
Yánez Pinzón N26-12, entre Av. Colón y La Niña Quito, Ecuador Tel.: +593 2 394-8760, Ext. 2358 or 2255 
Email: puntocontactootcecu@mipro.gob.ec ; mmartinez@mipro.gob.ec  
Website: http://www.industrias.gob.ec  
3. Notified under Article 2. 9.2 [ ], 2.10.1 [X], 5.6.2 [  ], 5.7.1 [  ], other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN wher e applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provid ed in addition, where applicable):  3923.30 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:  Reglamento 
Técnico Ecuatoriano de emergencia RTE INEN 100 "Materiales y artículos plásticos destinados a estar en contacto con los alimentos" (Emergency Technical Regulation 
of the Ecuadorian Standardization Institute (RTE INEN) No. 100: "Plastic materials 
and articles intended to come into contact with food") (11 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:  The notified Emergency Technical Regulation covers 
the following: Purpose; Scope; Definitions; Identification of plastics; Product requirements; Sampling; Conformity assessment tests; Reference documents; Conformity 
assessment procedure; Monitoring and inspecti on authority; Penalty regime; and Liability 
of conformity assessment bodies. G/TBT/N/ECU/115 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  The notified Technical Regulation establishes the global migration limits 
for plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food, with a view 
to protecting human health and preventing practices likely to mislead users. 
Compliance with this Technical Regulation, which applies to plastic materials and articles 
intended to come into contact with domestic ally produced or imported food marketed 
in Ecuador, is mandatory. 
8. Relevant documents:  
1. Publication where notice appears: http://www.industrias.gob.ec/  and 
http://www.inen.gob.ec ; 
2. Proposal and basic document: RTE INEN EMERGENTE 100 "Materiales y artículos 
plásticos destinados a estar en contacto con los alimentos" (Emergency Technical 
Regulation of the Ecuadorian Standardization Institute (RTE INEN) No. 100: "Plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food"); 
3. Publication in which Technical Regulation will be published when adopted: 
Registro Oficial  (Official Journal) No. 121 of 12 November 2013. 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:   As from the date of publication in the 
Official Journal (12 November 2013) 
In force 
10. Final date for comments:  N/A 
11. Texts available from: National enquir y point [X] or address, telephone and 
fax numbers and email and website addre sses, if available, of other body: 
Contact and/or National Enquiry Point: 
Subsecretaría de la Calidad 
Ministerio de Industrias y Productividad, MIPRO Yánez Pinzón N26-12, entre Av. Colón y La Niña Quito, Ecuador 
Tel.: +593 2 394-8760, Ext. 2358 or 2255 
Email: puntocontactoOTCECU@mipro.gob.ec ; mmartinez@mipro.gob.ec  
Website: http://www.industrias.gob.ec