G/TBT/N/COL/210
15 December 2014
(14-7245)  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:   COLOMBIA  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:   Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio (Supervisory Authority 
for Industry and Trade) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and email and website 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority design ated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:    
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [    ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [ X  ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:    
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading.  ICS numbers may be provid ed in addition, where applicable: 
Measuring instruments 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:   Proyecto de 
Resolución de la Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio "Por la cual se modifica el Capítulo Tercero del Título VI de la Circular Única de la Superintendencia de Industria y 
Comercio, y se reglamenta el control metrológico a instrumentos de medición" (Draft 
Resolution of the Supervisory Authority for Industry and Trade "Amending Chapter 3 of 
Title VI of the Single Circular of the Supervisory Authority for Industry and Trade and regulating the metrological control of measuring instruments") (15 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   The notified draft Resolution covers the following: Scope; 
Exceptions; Definitions; Stages of the metrological control process; Responsibility of 
measuring instrument owners; Authority responsible for inspection, monitoring and 
control in the field of legal metrology; Repairers of measuring instruments; Authorized 
metrological verification bodies (OAVM); Legal metrology information system ( SIMEL); 
and Infringement and penalty regime.   
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:   Transparency 
8. Relevant documents:    
Article 59, paragraphs 8 and 9, and Article 71 of Law ( Ley) No. 1480 of 2011;  
Article 41 of Decree ( Decreto ) No. 2269 of 16 November 1993;  
Article 1, paragraphs 47, 48, 50, 51, 54 and 55, and Article 14, paragraphs 4 and 9, of Decree ( Decreto ) No. 4886 of 23 December 2011;  
Single Circular of the Supervisory Authority for Industry and Trade ( Circular Única de la 
Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio ) - http://www.sic.gov.co/drupal/circular-
unica-sic . 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into 
force:   Upon signature of the Resolution  
Date of publication in the Official Journal G/TBT/N/COL/210 
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10. Final date for comments:   12 March 2015 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X  ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses,  if available, of other body:   
Enquiry Point:  
Contact person: Daniel Héctor Rico R. 
Email:   drico@mincit.gov.co  ; puntocontacto@mincit.gov.co  
Tel.:  (+57-1) 606-7676, Ext. 1690 
Fax:  (+57-1) 606-4777 
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  
Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio 
Delegatura para el Control y Verificación de Reglamentos Técnicos y Metrología Legal Grupo de Regulación 
Carrera 13 No. 27 - 00 
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia Tel.:   (+57-1) 587-0000, Ext. 10341 
Fax:   (+57-1) 587-0284 
Email:  dcaro@sic.gov.co  
Website:  http://www.sic.gov.co   
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