G/SPS/N/CRI/176/Add.1  
21 October 2016  
(16-5738) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original:  Spanish  
 
  NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication, received on 2 1 October 2 016, is being circulated at the request of 
the delegation of Costa Rica . 
 
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Central American Technical Regulation (RTCA) No. 67.06.74:16 : Organic agricultural produc ts. 
Production, processing, marketing, certification and labelling requirements  
The notified Regulation establishes the provisions and procedures governing the production, 
registration, certification, processing, labelling, storage, transport and marketin g of organic 
agricultural products . It applies to the following products that carry or should carry a descriptive 
label relating to organic production methods.  
A product is considered to carry information concerning organic production methods when the 
label or property claims, including advertising material and commercial documents, describe the 
product or its ingredients using the terms "organic", "biological" or "ecological" or other similar 
internationally recognised vocabulary, including abbreviated for ms, which suggest to the buyer 
that the product or its ingredients have been obtained via organic production methods in the 
country in which they have been put on the market.  
The Regulation must be applied by all natural or legal persons engaged in the pro duction, 
processing, labelling, storage, transport and marketing of certified organic agricultural products . It 
is also binding upon public and private bodies engaged in the registration, control and/or 
certification of such production.  
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2016/SPS/CRI/16_4420_00_s.pdf  
This addendum concerns a:  
[X] Modification of final date for comments  
[ ] Notification of adoption, publication, or entry  into force of regulation  
[ ] Modification of content and/or scope of previously notified draft regulation  
[ ] Withdrawal of proposed regulation  
[ ] Change in proposed date of adoption, publication, or date of entry into force  
[ ] Other:  
Comment per iod: (If the addendum extends the scope of the previously notified 
measure in terms of products and/or potentially affected Members, a new deadline for 
receipt of comments should be provided, normally of at least 60 calendar days . Under 
other circumstances , such as extension of originally announced final date for comments, 
the comment period provided in the addendum may vary.)  
[ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the addendum to the notification and/or 
(dd/mm/yy ): 30 November 2 016 
Agency or auth ority designated to handle comments : [X] National Notification Authority, 
[ ] National Enquiry Point . Address, fax number and email address (if available) of other G/SPS/N/CRI/176/Add.1  
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  body:  
Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería  
Servicio Fitosanitario del Estado (SFE)  
Centro de Información y Notificación MSF  
Apartado Postal 1521 - 1200 
San José, Costa Rica  
Tel.: (+506) 2549 3454  
Fax: (+506) 2549 3598  
Email : puntocontactoMSF@sfe.go.cr  
Text(s) available from : [X] National Notification Authority, [X]  National Enquiry Point . 
Address, fax number and email address (if available) of other body:  
 
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