G/SPS/N/CRI/69/Add.1  
30 January  2019 
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication, received on 2 8 January 2 019, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of Costa Rica . 
 
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Central American Technical Regulation (RTCA) No. 65.05.51:08 : Veterinary drugs and related 
products and establishments in this sector . Sanitary registration and control  
On 5 August 2 008, the Government of the Republic of Costa Rica notified, in document 
G/SPS/N/CRI/69, the draft regulation "RTCA No. 65.05.51:08 : Veterinary drugs and related 
products, and establishments engaged in the manufacture, marketing, fractioning or storage 
thereof . Sanitary registration and control requirements", whose purpose was to establish 
provisions governing the sanitary registration and control of veterinary drugs, related products 
and establishments.  
The regulation applies to veterinary drugs and related products and to establishments engaged in 
the registration, manufacture, marketing, dis pensing or distribution, fractioning or storage thereof 
in the States Parties . The sanitary registration of raw materials for the preparation of veterinary 
drugs and related products and compounded veterinary formulations is excluded from the scope 
of the regulation and remains subject to the domestic laws of each State Party.  
The purpose of the present addendum is to notify WTO Members that the regulation has been 
revised, amended and updated . They will have 60 days from the date of this notification to ma ke 
comments.  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2019/SPS/CRI/19_0454_00_s.pdf  
This addendum concerns a:  
[ ] Modification of final date for comments  
[ ] Notification of adoption, publication, or entry into force of regulation  
[X] 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 period : (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.)  
[X] Sixty days from the dat e of circulation of the addendum to the notification and/or 
(dd/mm/yy ): 31 March 2 019 G/SPS/N/CRI/69/Add.1  
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  Agency or authority designated to handle comments : [X] National Notification 
Authority, [X]  National Enquiry Point . Address, fax number and email address (if 
available) of other body:  
Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería  (Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock)  
Servicio Fitosanitario del Estado , SFE (State Phytosanitary Service)  
Centro de Información y Notificación MSF  (SPS Enquiry and Notification Point)  
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:  
The document is available at:  
http://reglatec.go.cr/reglatec/principal.jsp  
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