. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/CRI/47 
31 July 2006 
 (06-3660) 
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:   REPUBLIC OF COSTA RICA
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Comercio  – MEIC (Ministry of 
the Economy, Industry and Trade) Dirección de Mejora Regulatoria y  Reglamentación Técnica  (Regulatory Improvement and 
Technical Regulation Directorate 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be  indicated if different from above:    
TBT Enquiry Point 
Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade – MEIC 
Apartado Postal. 10216-1000 
Tel.:  + (506) 235-2700, ext. 221/203 
Fax:  + (506) 297-1439 
E-mail:  crotc@meic.go.cr  
Web site: www.reglatec.go.cr 
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:  71.100 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Central Amercian 
Technical Regulation (RTCA) No. 71.01.37:06  Productos Higiénicos. Registro e 
Inscripción Sanitaria de Productos Higiénicos .  (Cleaning products.  Sanitary registration 
and authorization of cleaning pro ducts) (23 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   The purpose of this technical regulation is to establish the 
conditions and requirements under which sanitary registration and authorization of cleaning 
products will be granted. 
 This technical regulation is binding in the States parties on natu ral or legal persons 
involved in the production or importation of clean ing products which contains at least one 
dangerous ingredient in a concentration greater  than 1 per cent and which, on the basis of 
technical studies, are classified as dangerous, according to the criteria laid down in Annex D.  Those internationally classified as carcinogenic, mutagenic or teratogenic, in accordance with the criteria laid down by AC GIH, ATSDR, EPA, HMIS, IARC, NIOSH, 
NTP, OHMS, OSHA, TSCA and WHO, must be declared when they are present in a 
concentration greater than 0.1 per cent a nd shall be subject to mandatory sanitary 
registration or authorization. G/TBT/N/CRI/47 
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  6. Description of content:   (cont'd)  The products listed in Annex A, which the States Parties 
shall define by consensus, shall not come within the scope of this regulation.   
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:    
 Protection of human health and life. 
8. Relevant documents:   Recommendations on the Transpor t of Dangerous Goods, Model 
Regulations, United Nations, New York and Geneva.   
http://www.unece.org/trans/danger/publi/unrec/rev13/nature_HTML/00c_Recomend.pdf United States Code of Federal Regulations, (CFR) Title 40.  Classification of Dangerous 
Goods. 
United States Code of Federal Regulations, (CFR) Title 29, 
Part No. 1910.1200, Occupational Safety and Hea lth Standards.  Section on the Safety Data 
Sheet, declaration of hazardous constituents. 
http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp. show_document?p_table =STANDARDS&p_id
=10099 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    Upon publication in the Official Journal. 
Six months as from the date of signature of the 
COMIECO (Council of Ministers for Central American Economic Integration) Resolution. 
10. Final date for comments:   60 days as from the date of notification. 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web site addresses, if available of the other body:   
Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Comercio  – MEIC 
Apartado Postal. 10216-1000 Tel.:  + (506) 235-2700, ext. 221/203 
Fax:  + (506) 297-1439 
E-mail:  crotc@meic.go.cr  Web site: www.reglatec.go.cr  
The full text of the document is available at:  
http://www.reglatec.go.cr/des cargas/RTCA_71_01_37_06_Registr o_Productos_Higienicos.pdf