G/TBT/N/CHL/661  
16 October  2023 
(23-6944) 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 Energía  (Ministry of Energy)  
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:  
Subsecretaría de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales - Ministerio de Relaciones 
Exteriores de Chile  (Undersecretariat for International Economic Relations, Ministry of 
Foreign Affairs)  
3. Notified under Article  2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ ], 3.2 [ ], 7.2 [ ], 
other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading . ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable) : Medium -
duty motorized vehicles  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s ) of the notified document : Informe técnico 
para el establecimiento del estándar de eficiencia energética de vehículos motorizados 
medianos  (Technical report for establishing the energy efficiency standard for medium -
duty motor vehicles) (62 pages, in Span ish) 
6. Description of content : Law No. 21.305 on energy efficiency, published on 13  February  
2021, provides, inter alia , for the establishment of energy efficiency standards for light -, 
medium - and heavy -duty vehicles (Article 7) . The Ministry of Energy must therefore set 
standards which will consist of energy efficiency targets, in kilometres per litre of gasoline 
equivalent, in average terms for all individual approval certificates issued or certificates 
of compliance with Supreme Decree No. 55 of 1994 of the Ministry of Transport and 
Telecommunications, or that replacing it, as appropriate.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Protection of the environment  
8. Relevant documents:  
- Ministry of Energy (2015, 12 30) Política Energética de Chile 2050.  
https://energia.gob.cl/sites/default/files/energia_2050_ -
_politica_energetica_de_c hile.pdf  
- Ministry of Energy (2020a) Carbono Neutralidad en el Sector Energía : Proyección de 
Consumo Energético Nacional 2020.  https://energia.gob.cl/sites/default/files/pagina -
basica/informe_resumen_cn_2019_v07.pdf  G/TBT/N/CHL/661  
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  - Ministry of Energy (2021) Ley N°21.305 Sobre Eficiencia Energética.  
https://www.bcn.cl/leychile/navegar?idNorma=1155887  
- Ministry of Energy (2022) Agenda de Energía 2022 - 2026. 
https://energia.gob.cl/sites/default/files/documentos/agenda_energia_2022_ -_2026.pdf  
- European Commission (2015) "Evaluati on of Regulation 443/2009 and 510/2011 on the 
reduction of CO2 emissions from light -duty vehicles", Study contract No. 
071201/2013/664487/ETU/CLIMA.C.2.  
https://ec.europa.eu/clima/sites/clima/files/transport/vehicles/docs/evaluation_ldv_co2
_regs_en.pdf  
9. Proposed date of adoption : Upon publication, in the Official Journal, of the Resolution 
that sets the standard.  
Proposed date of entry into force : 24 months from publication, in the Official Journal, 
of the Resolution that sets the standard.  
10. Final da te for comments : 60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from : National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Subsecretaría de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales  
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Chile  
Teatinos 180, piso 11  
Tel.: (+56) 2 2827 5250  
Fax: (+56) 2 2380 9494  
Email: tbt_chile@subrei.gob.cl  
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