G/TBT/N/ARG/347  
10 October 2018  
(18-6258) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade   
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.  
 
1. Notifying Member : ARGENTINA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible : Servicio Nacional de Sanidad y Calidad Agroalimentaria , SENASA 
(National Agriculture and Food Quality and Health Service)  
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:  
Enquiry point (See section 11)  
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) : Pesticide 
active ingredients  
Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti -sprouting products and plant -growth 
regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or 
as preparations or articles (for example, sulphur -treated bands, wicks and candles, and 
fly-papers) (HS 3808).  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s)  of the notified document : Prohibición de los 
principios activos carbofuran, carbosulfan, diazinon, aldicarb y dicofol y sus productos 
formulados  (Ban on the active ingredients carbofuran, carbosulfan, diazinon, aldicarb, 
dicofol and their formulated produ cts) (2 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The manufacture, importation and fractionation of the active 
ingredients carbofuran, carbosulfan, diazinon, aldicarb, dicofol and their formulated 
products shall be prohibited beginning 365 days from the entry into force of this measure . 
Ten % granular formulations of carbofuran are excluded from the ban.  
Enterprises that have any of these products, registered in the National Plant Therapeutics 
Register, must declare their inventories and indicate the number of containers, capacity, 
batch and expir y date. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Protection of animal or plant life or health ; Protection of the environment  
8. Relevant documents:  
• International Code of Conduct on the Distribution and Use of Pesticides, adopted 
by the 123rd session of the FAO Council in November 2 002 
• Law No. 25.278 ratifying the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent 
Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemic als and Pesticides in International Trade  G/TBT/N/ARG/347  
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  9. Proposed date of adoption : 9 October 2 018 
Proposed date of entry into force : 10 October 2 018 
10. Final date for comments : Not applicable  
11. Texts available from : National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Punto Focal de la República Argentina  (Focal Point of the Argentine Republic)  
Dirección de Políticas de Comercio Interior y Competencia  (Directorate of Domestic Trade 
Policies and Competition)  
Avda. Julio A. R oca 651 Piso 4° Sector 23A (C1067ABB)  
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires  
Tel.: (+54) 11 4349 4067  
Email: focalotc@mecon.gob.ar  
http://www.puntofocal.gov.ar/formularios/notific_arg.php  
http://www.puntofocal.gob.ar/  
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