G/TBT/N/CHL/375  
17 October 2016  
(16-5620) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Origin al: 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 del Medio Ambiente  (Ministr y of the Environment)  
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 : Dirección 
General de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales  (Directorate -General of International 
Economic Relations), Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores  (Ministry of Foreign Affairs).  
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) : Non-road 
mobile machinery, generating sets, public transport buses, and fuel.  
5. Title, number of pages and langu age(s) of the notified document : Normas del 
Anteproyecto del Plan de Prevención y Descontaminación Atmosférica de la Región 
Metropolitana de Santiago  (Standards for the draft prevention and atmospheric 
decontamination plan for the Santiago metropolitan reg ion) (11 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The draft prevention and atmospheric decontamination plan for 
the Santiago metropolitan region contains proposed emission standards for certain types of 
pollutants, including an emission standard for particulate matter for stationary sources ; an 
emission standard for sulphur dioxide ; an emission standard for generating sets ; and an 
emission standard for non -road machinery . The text contains proposed requirements to be 
met by fuel that is distributed or  sold in the Santiago metropolitan region.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Environmental and health protection.  
8. Relevant documents:  
 Ley N° 19.300 sobre Bases Generales del Medio Ambiente  (Law No. 19.300 
establishing general environmental principles)  
 Articles 97 and 116 of Supreme Decree No. 66/2009  
 ISO 8178 : Reciprocating internal combustion engines . Exhaust emission 
measurement.  Part 1 : Test-bed measurement of gaseous and particulate exhaust 
emissi ons. 
 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) of the US Environmental Protection Agency (US -
EPA), Volume 40.  
9. Proposed date of adoption : - 
Proposed date of entry into force : - G/TBT/N/CHL/375  
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  10. Final date for comments : 60 days from the date of notification.  
11. Texts avai lable from : National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Departamento Regulatorio  
Dirección General de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales  
Ministerio de Relaciones Exterior es 
Teatinos 180, piso 11  
Tel.: (+56) 2 -2827-5491 
Fax: (+56) 2 -2380-9494 
Email: tbt_chile@direcon.gob.cl  
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