G/TBT/N/ CHL/460  
19 October  2018 
(18-6553) 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 del Medio Ambiente  (Ministry 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  - Ministerio de Relaciones 
Exteriores  (Directorate -General of International Economic Relations, 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) : Pneumatic 
tyres 
5. Title, number o f pages and language(s) of the notified document : Anteproyecto 
del Reglamento que establece metas de recolección y valorización y otras obligaciones 
asociadas de neumáticos  (Preliminary draft regulation establishing goals for the collection 
and recovery of  pneumatic tyres and related obligations) (4 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : A preliminary draft of the first supreme decree on Extended 
Producer Responsibility has been prepared in connection with Law 20.920, the framework 
law on waste man agement, extended producer responsibility and the promotion of 
recycling.  
Extended Producer Responsibility obligates manufacturers and importers of pneumatic 
tyres to take care of waste tyres . As this obligation comes with a cost, it is an application 
of the "polluter pays " principle : when consumers buy tyres, they pay for the handling of 
the waste from the tyres . It is estimated that the rate will be between 1.5 and 7% of the 
value of the tyre.  
The obligation applies both to pneumatic tyres that form part of a vehicle or machine of 
any type and to replacement tyres . It does not apply to tyres for bicycles, wheelchairs 
and the like or to solid tyres, about which certain information must be provide d. 
Pneumatic tyres are divided, by size, into two categories : those with rims under 57 inches 
(including tyres for light vehicles, buses and trucks, agricultural and construction 
machinery and motorcycles, among others) and those with rims of 57 inches or larger 
(giant tyres used only in large -scale mining).  
To promote the hierarchy of approaches to waste management, a goal of 60% is set for 
recovery through retreading or material recycling (reusing the rubber and steel as raw 
materials) . The rest can be re covered in cement kilns or through pyrolysis, where part is 
recovered as fuel.  G/TBT/N/CHL/460  
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Protection of the environment  
8. Relevant documents : Ley 20.920, Marco para la Gestión de  Residuos, Responsabilidad 
Extendida del Productor y Fomento al Reciclaje.   
9. Proposed date of adoption : - 
Proposed date of entry into force : 01/01/2021  
10. Final date for comments : 60 days from the date of 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:  
Departamento Regulatorio  (Regulations Department)  
Dirección General de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales  (Directorate -General of 
International Economic Relations)  
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores  (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)  
Teatinos 180, piso 11  
Tel.: (+56) 2 -2827 5250  
Fax: (+56) 2 -2380 9494  
Email: tbt_chile@direcon.gob.cl  
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