. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/COL/177 
2 July 2012 
 (12-3503) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original: Spanish 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Notifying Member:   COLOMBIA 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social  (Ministry of Health and 
Social Welfare) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and e-mail 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, Industria y Turismo (Ministry of Commerce, Industry 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):   Meat and edible meat 
products of poultry 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Proyecto de 
Resolución del Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social "Por la cual se establecen los 
requisitos sanitarios para el funcionamiento de las plantas de beneficio de aves de corral, 
desprese y almacenamiento, comercializaci ón, expendio, transporte, importación o 
exportación de carne y producto s cárnicos comestibles" (Draft Ministry of Health and 
Social Welfare Resolution "Establishing the sanitary requirements for the operation of plants engaged in the slaughter of poultry and the cutting, storage, marketing, sale, 
transport, importation and exportation of the meat and edible meat products thereof") 
(45 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   The notified draft Resolution establishes the sanitary 
requirements to be met by establishments e ngaged in the slaughter of poultry and the 
cutting, storage, marketing, sale, importati on, exportation and transport of the meat and 
edible meat products thereof that are intende d for human consumption.  It covers the 
following:  Purpose;  Scope;  Definitions;  Slaughter and processing plants;  Sanitary 
standards;  Sanitation standard operating procedures (SSOPs);  Hazard Analysis and 
Critical Control Point (HACCP) system;  Prel iminary sanitary inspection carried out on the 
farm;  Preliminary ante- and post-mortem insp ection at the plant;  Official inspection of 
establishments engaged in the slaughter of poultry;  Storage, sale and transport;  Inspection, monitoring and control;  Safety measures and penalties;  Notification;  and Period of 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human life and health and the e nvironment and prevention of practices liable 
to mislead consumers. 
8. Relevant documents:   Decree ( Decreto ) No. 2676 of 22 December 2000 of the Ministry of 
the Environment;  Decree 4126 of 16 November 2005;  Decree No. 1500 of 4 May 2007, 
notified in document G/TBT/N/COL/82/Add.1 of the Ministry of Social Welfare;  
Resolution ( Resolución ) No. 1164 of 6 September 2002 of the Ministry of the Environment;  
Resolution No. 2346 of 11 July 2007;  Resolution No. 4287 of 21 November 2007, notified in document G/TBT/N/COL/89/Add.1 of the Ministry of Social Welfare.  
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:   Date on which the Resolution is signed. 
Date of publication in the Official Journal. 
10. Final date for comments:   24 September 2012 
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: 
Enquiry Point: 
Contact person:  Daniel Héctor Rico R. 
Tel.: (+57-1) 606-7676, Ext. 1690 Fax: (+57-1) 606-4777 
E-mail: drico@mincomercio.gov.co  
 Puntocontactotc-msf@mincomercio.gov.co 
 
Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo Dirección de Regulación Calle 28 N° 13A - 15, tercer piso 
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia 
Tel.:   (+57-1) 606-4775  Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social Dirección de Promoción y Prevención 
Carrera 13 N° 32 - 76 
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia Tel.: (+57-1) 330-5000, Ext. 1266 Fax: (+57-1) 330-5050, Ext. 1280 E-mail: bolarte@minproteccionsocial.gov.co  
Website: http://www.minproteccionsocial.gov.co  
 
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