. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/PRY/38 
7 December 2011 
 (11-6352) 
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:   PARAGUAY 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  
Dirección Nacional de Vigilancia Sanitaria  (National Health Monitoring Directorate) 
Ministerio de Salud Pública y Bienestar Social (MSP y BS)  (Ministry of Public 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 Relaciones Exteriores  (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) 
Centro de Referencia de la OMC  (WTO Reference Centre) 
Dirección de Organismos Económicos Multilaterales 
(Directorate of Multilateral Economic Organizations) 
Palma casi 15 de Agosto Nº 594 Asunción, Paraguay Tel.: +(595) 21-493 657 E-mail: snin@mre.gov.py  
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):   Personal hygiene 
products, cosmetics and perfumes. 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:   Resolución Mercosur 
N° 19/11, Reglamento Técnico MERCOSUR de  Buenas Prácticas de  Fabricación para 
Productos de Higiene Personal, Cosméticos y P erfumes. (Derogación de las Res.  GMC N° 
92/94 y 66/96) (MERCOSUR Resolution No. 19/11, MERCOSUR Technical Regulation 
on Good Manufacturing Practices for Personal Hygiene Products, Cosmetics and Perfumes. 
(Repeal of MERCOSUR Common Market Group Resolutions Nos. 92/94 and 66/96)) (36 pages, in Spanish) 
6. Description of content:   The notified regulation establishes the procedures and practices 
that are to be applied by manufacturers in order to ensure that the facilities, methods, 
processes, systems and controls used in the manufacture of personal hygiene products, 
cosmetics and perfumes are of a high enough standard to guarantee the quality of these products. G/TBT/N/PRY/38 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human health. 
8. Relevant documents:   Decreto Nº 17057/97 Por el cual se dispone la vigencia en la 
República del Paraguay de las Resolucion es adoptadas por el Grupo Mercado Común del 
MERCOSUR, referentes a Reglamentos Técnicos  (Decree No. 17057/97 providing for the 
validity in the Republic of Paraguay of the Resolutions adopted by the MERCOSUR 
Common Market Group in respect of Technical Regulations.) 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  } 31 May 2012  
10. Final date for comments:   - 
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: 
Unidad de Coordinación del SNIN 
Ministerio de Industria y Comercio (MIC) 
Avda. Mariscal F. López 3333 Asunción, Paraguay Tel.: +(595) 21-616 3284 Fax: +(595) 21-616 3084 
E-mail: snin@mic.gov.py  
Also available online at: 
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2011/tbt/PRY/11_4122_00_s.pdf