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G/TBT/N/PER/36/Rev.1 
3 October 2012 
 (12-5348) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   Spanish 
  
NOTIFICATION 
 
Revision 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Notifying Member:   PERU 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:   Ministerio de Salud , MINSA (Ministry of Health) 
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:   Ministerio de 
Comercio Exterior y Turismo, MINCETUR  (Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism) 
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 app licable, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in  addition, where applicable):  
Chapter 04:  Dairy produce;  edible pr oducts of animal origin not elsewhere 
specified or included; 
Chapter 15:  Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products;  
prepared edible fats;  animal or vegetable waxes; 
Chapter 19:  Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk;  pastrycooks' products; Chapter 20:  Preparations of vegetables,  fruit, nuts or other parts of plants; 
Subheading 3302.10:  Of a kind used in the food or drink industries. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Proyecto de 
reglamento técnico que regula los límites de us o de ácidos grasos trans (AGT's) en los 
alimentos elaborados industrialmente y la info rmación obligatoria que debe consignarse 
en el etiquetado  (Draft technical regulation governing the limits for the use of trans fatty 
acids (TFA) in industrially produ ced foods and the information that is to be displayed on 
labels) 
6. Description of content:   The aim of the notified draft technical regulation is to establish: 
1. Limits for the use of trans fatty acids in industrially produced foods that are 
manufactured, processed, prepared, packaged , transported, imported, stored and 
marketed in Peru, with a view to protecting and preventing any possible damage to 
human health; 
2. Requirements concerning the information that is to be displayed on the labels of 
processed food products containing trans fatty acids. G/TBT/N/PER/36/Rev.1 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
1. To protect the health of consumers of  industrially produced foods containing 
trans fatty acids. 
2. To enable consumers to make informed  food choices in respect of the content of 
trans fatty acids in industrially produced foods. 
8. Relevant documents:   Codex Alimentarius, Codex Guidelines on Nutrition Labelling, 
CAC/GL 2-1985, Rev.1-1993. 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined. 
Six months after publication in the Official Journal 
El Peruano.  
10. Final date for comments:   17 December 2012 
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: 
Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo - MINCETUR 
Calle Uno Oeste Nº 50 - Urb.  Corpac - Lima 27 - Perú Tel.: (+51) 1 513-6100, Ext. 8040 Fax: (+51) 1 513-6100, Ext. 8002 E-mail: otc@mincetur.gob.pe  
Websites: http://www.comunidadandina.org/SIRT 
 http://www.mincetur.gob.pe/reglamentostecnicos 
 
Text also available at: http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2012/tbt/PER/12_3754_00_s.pdf