G/TBT/N/PER/107  
17 September 2018  
(18-5710) 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 : PERU 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible : Instituto Nacional de Calidad - Dirección de Metrología  (National 
Institute for Quality - Directorate of Metrology)  
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:  
Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo (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 applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading . ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable) : ICS 
number : 55.020 . Covers aspects relating to product quantity, prepackaged pr oducts, and 
prepackages.  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de 
Norma Metrológica Peruana PNMP 002:2018 "Cantidad de producto en preenvases"  (Draft 
Peruvian Metrology Standard (PNMP) No. 002:2018 : "Quantity of prod uct in prepackages") 
(61 pages(s), in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified Peruvian Metrology Standard specifies the legal 
metrology requirements for prepackaged products (also called prepackaged commodities 
or prepackaged goods) labelled in predetermined constant nominal quantities of mass, 
volume, linear measure, area, or count ; and sampling plans and procedures for use in 
verifying the quantity of product in prepackages.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems w here 
applicable : The procedures for the drafting and adoption of Peruvian Metrology Standards 
were published in Resolution No. 002-2012/SNM -INDECOPI of 1 7 May 2 012, Article 10 of 
which establishes that Peruvian Metrology Standards shall preferably be revised every five 
years to ensure that they are up to date.  
International Recommendation OIML R 87:2016 : "Quantity of product in prepackages" was 
approved for final publication by the International Committee of Legal Metrology in 2016 
and submitted to the  International Conference on Legal Metrology in 2016 for formal 
approval . This recommendation replaces the previous edition, OIML R 87:2004.  
In the light of consultations regarding the need to apply the new edition of the 
international recommendation, and the amount of time that had passed since the 
international recommendation was published, it was considered appropriate to update 
Peruvian Metrology Standard NMP 002:2008 on the quantity of product in prepackages and 
adopt the new edition of International R ecommendation OIML R 87:2016 : "Quantity of 
product in prepackages".  G/TBT/N/PER/107  
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  8. Relevant documents : OIML R 87:2016 : "Quantity of product in prepackages"  
9. Proposed date of adoption : To be determined.  
Proposed date of entry into force : Six months after publicati on in the Official Journal El 
Peruano.  
10. Final date for comments : 12 November 2 018 
11. Texts available from : National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
http://extranet.comunidadandina.org/sirt/public/index.aspx  
http://consultasenlinea.mincetur.gob.pe/notificaciones/Publico/FrmBuscador.aspx  
https://www.inacal.gob.pe/metrologia/categoria/normasmetrologicas  
Ministerio de Comerc io Exterior y Turismo  - MINCETU R (Ministry of Foreign Trade and 
Tourism)  
Calle Uno Oeste N° 050 - Urb. Corpac - Lima 27 - Peru 
Tel.: (+51-1) 513 -6100, Ext. 1223 and 1239  
Email: otc@mincetur.gob.pe  
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