. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/COL/120 
27 October 2006 
 (06-5177) 
Committee on Sanitary and 
Phytosanitary Measures Original:   Spanish 
 
 
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   COLOMBIA  
If applicable, name of local government involved:  
2. Agency responsible :  Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario – ICA (Colombian Agricultural 
Institute) 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number (s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Physiological regulators and adjuvants for agricultural use 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: 
 Trading partners of Colombia 
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:  Resolución Nº 002713 
del 10 de octubre de 2006 del Instituto Colo mbiano Agropecuario "Por la cual se dictan 
Disposiciones Reglamentarias para Regul adores Fisiológicos y Coadyuvantes de Uso 
Agrícola" (ICA Resolution No. 002713 of 10 October 2006 "Establishing Regulatory 
Provisions Governing Physiological Regulators and Adjuvants for Agricultural Use) 
(11 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   Requirements and procedures harmonized with existing national 
regulations for the regist ration and legal and technical control of physiological regulators and 
adjuvants for agricultural use imported into , exported from, manufactured, formulated, 
packaged or distributed in Colombia;  purpose and scope;  definitions;  registration and 
obligations of manufacturing, formulation,  exporting, importing, distributing and 
packaging firms;  issuing of registration by efficacy trial technical departments;  product sales records;  issuing of product sale registration;  obligations of product registrants;  claims for damages;  official control;  gr ounds for seizure;  penalties and dissemination. 
7. Objective and rationale:  [   ] food safety,  [ X ] animal health,  [   ] plant protection, 
[   ] protect humans from animal/plant pest  or disease, [   ] protect territory from 
other damage from pests  
8. International standard, guideline or recommendation:  
[   ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [ X ] World Organization for Animal Health 
(OIE),  [   ] International Plant Protection Convention,  [   ] None  
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate 
reference and briefly identify deviations:  G/SPS/N/COL/120 
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  9. Relevant documents and language (s) in which these are available:   Law No. 101 of 1993 
and Resolution No. 3079 of 19 October 1995 (Available in Spanish). 
10. Proposed date of adoption:   10 October 2006, i.e. the date on which the Resolution was 
signed. 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:   As of 12 October 2006, i.e. the date on which the 
Resolution was published in the Official Journal and for Andean Community member countries, once the regulatory provisions have been entered in the Sub-Regional Register. 
12. Final date for comments:   18 December 2006 
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [ X ] National notification 
authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, or  address, fax number and E-mail address (if 
available) of other body: 
Servicio Nacional de Información  
Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo 
Dirección de Regulación 
Calle 28 Nº 13A - 15, tercer piso Tel: (+571) 606-7676  Ext. 1690 Fax: (+571) 241-0478 
or 
Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario
 
Grupo de Análisis de Riesgos Agropecuarios y Asuntos Internacionales – ICA Calle 37 # 8-43, Oficina 409 Bogotá, D.C., Colombia Tel.: (+571) 285-3485 
Fax: (+571) 232-4695 
Web site: http://www.ica.gov.co
 
13. Texts available from:  [ X ] National notification authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, 
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body: 
Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo 
Dirección de Regulación Calle 28 Nº 13A - 15, tercer piso 
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia 
Enquiry Point
: 
Contact person :  Daniel Héctor Rico R. 
E-mail: danielrico@mincomercio.gov.co 
Tel.: (+571) 606-7676  Ext. 1690 Fax: (+571) 241-0480 Web site: http://www.mincomercio.gov.co