. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/CRI/133 
27 July 2012 
 (12-4114) 
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:   COSTA RICA 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:   Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Comercio , MEIC (Ministry of 
the Economy, Industry and Trade) Departamento de Reglamentación Técnica  (Technical Regulation Department) 
Tel.:  (+506) 2291-2115, Ext. 206 
Name and address (including telephone  and fax numbers, 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:  
Centro de Información de Obstáculos Técnicos al Comercio  (TBT Enquiry Point) 
Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Comercio (MEIC) Apartado Postal. 10216-1000 
Tel.: (+506) 2291-2115, Ext. 206 
Fax: (+506) 2291-2015 E-mail: crotc@meic.go.cr  
Website: http://www.reglatec.go.cr  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ ], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ ], other:  Transparency 
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.  
ICS numbers may be provided in  addition, where applicable):   Miscellaneous products 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   T e x t  r e p e a l i n g  
41 executive decrees (5 pages, in Spanish) 
6. Description of content:   Some of the 41 technical regulations covered by the notified text 
have been tacitly repealed by other more gene ral or recent regulatory texts, while others are 
no longer applicable due to technological de velopments.  Good regulatory practices oblige 
governments to revise existing technical regula tions so as to ensure consistency with 
prevailing conditions and needs. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
Paragraph 2.3 of Annex 1A ("Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade") of Law No. 7475 
Approving the Final Act Embodying the R esults of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral 
Trade Negotiations establishes that technical re gulations shall not be maintained if the 
circumstances or objectives giving rise to their adoption no longer exist, and also 
recommends that technical regulations be less trade-restrictive. G/TBT/N/CRI/133 
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  8. Relevant documents:  None 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:   Date of publication in Official Journal 
La Gaceta  
10. Final date for comments:   Not applicable 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry  point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and website addresses,  if available of the other body: 
Centro de Obstáculos Técnicos al Comercio  (TBT Enquiry Point) 
Apartado Postal 10216-1000 San José, Costa Rica Tel.: (+506) 2291-2115, Ext. 206 
Fax: (+506) 2291-2015 
E-mail: crotc@meic.go.cr  
Website: http://www.reglatec.go.cr/  
The full text of the document is available at: 
http://www.reglatec.go.cr/consulta/derogatoria.pdf  
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2012/tbt/CRI/12_2883_00_s.pdf