. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/CHL/138 
12 August 2010 
 (10-4285) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   Spanish 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  CHILE
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:   Ministerio de Energía  (Ministry of Energy) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and E-mail and Website 
addresses, if available) of agency or au thority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   Ministerio de 
Relaciones Exteriores  (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) 
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ ], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [X], 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):   Electrical conductors:  
type RV 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Protocolo de análisis 
y/o ensayos de seguridad de producto eléc trico – Conductor eléctrico denominación RV  
(Safety analysis and/or test protocol for electrical products – Type RV electrical 
conductors) (9 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   The notified Protocol establishes the safety certification 
procedure for single-core or multi-core elec trical conductors which are non-armoured and 
non-shielded, of annealed copper, bare or metal- coated, solid (class 1) or stranded (class 2), 
cross-linked polyethylene-insulated (XLPE), w ith a thermoplastic polyvinyl chloride 
(PVC)/ST2 sheath, a service temperature to 90 °C and a rated voltage of 0.6/1kV, in 
accordance with the scope and coverage of International Electrotechnical Commission 
(IEC) Standard No. 60502-1:2009, code designa tion RV, and in conformity with European 
Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) Harmonization Document (HD) No. 603-1:1998. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Safety 
8. Relevant documents:   Protocolo de análisis y/o ensa yos de seguridad de producto 
eléctrico PE N°2/14  (Safety analysis and/or test protocol for electrical products 
PE No. 2/14) 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force: }The corresponding resolution will be 
issued once the time required for analysing comments has elapsed. G/TBT/N/CHL/138 
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  10. Final date for comments:   11 October 2010 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry  point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and E-mail and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Departamento de Acceso a Mercados 
Dirección General de Relacion es Económicas Internacionales 
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores Teatinos 180, piso 11, Santiago 
Tel.: (+56) 2 827-5491 
Fax: (+56) 2 380-9494 E-mail: tbt_chile@direcon.cl and cvasquez@direcon.cl 
Text available at: http://www.sec.cl/pls/portal/docs/page/secnor mativa/productos/prot ocolos%20en%20consu
lta/protocolo%20seguridad%20pe%20n% ba%202-14%202010%20conductor%20rv%20(%
20consulta%20publica).doc 
and http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2010/tbt/chl/10_3088_00_s.pdf