. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/CRI/42 
9 May 2006 
 (06-2226) 
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) Órgano de Reglamentación Técnica  (Technical Regulation Body) 
Tel.: (+506) 297-1439  
Fax: (+506) 235-2700, Ext. 265 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and 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, San José Tel.: (+506) 235-2700, Ext. 206/203 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):   International 
Classification for Standards (ICS) Code 67.040 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:   Reforma al 
Reglamento de Etiquetado de Productos Preenvasados   (Amendment to the Regulation 
governing the labelling of pre-packaged foods)  (3 pages, in Spanish).  
 Approval, mutatis mutandis , of the Codex General Standard for the Labelling of 
Prepackaged Foods , CODEX STAN 1-1985 (Rev. 1-1991), revised by the 16th and 
19th Sessions (1985 and 1991) and amended by the 23rd and 24th Sessions (1999 and 2001). 
6. Description of content:   Amendment to certain subparagraphs of Article 1 of Executive 
Decree No. 26012-MEIC, RTCR 100:1997, Etiquetado de los Alimentos Preenvasados  
(Labelling of pre-packaged foods) of 15 April 1997, published in La Gaceta  No. 91 of 
14 May 1997. 
 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: 
 Protection of health and prevention of practices likely to mislead or deceive the 
consumer. 
8. Relevant documents:   CODEX STAN 1-1985 (Rev. 1-1991), revised by the 16th and 19th 
Sessions (1985 and 1991) and amended by the 23rd and 24th Sessions (1999 and 2001) 
(worldwide standard). 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
 
Proposed date of entry into force:   Upon publication in the Official Journal, 
La Gaceta . 
In force for ten months after publication in the 
Official Journal La Gaceta . 
10. Final date for comments:   30 days as from the date of notification. 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X ], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and E-mail and Web site addresses, if available, of other body :   
Centro de Información de Obst áculos Técnicos al Comercio 
Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Comercio - MEIC Apartado Postal 10216-1000, San José Tel.: (+506) 235-2700, Ext. 206/203 
Fax: (+506) 297-1439 
E-mail: crotc@meic.go.cr  Web site: www.reglatec.go.cr