G/SPS/N/ECU/314  
26 September  2023 
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
1. Notifying Member : ECUADOR  
If applicable, name of local government involved:  
2. Agency responsible : Subsecretaría de Calidad e Inocuidad (SCI) - Ministerio de 
Producción, Comercio Exterior, Inversiones y Pesca  del Ecuador  (Under -Secretariat for 
Quality and Safety - Ministry of Production, Foreign Trade, Investment and Fisheries of 
Ecuador)  
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national 
schedules deposited with the WTO ; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, 
where applicable) : Live fish (HS code(s) : 0301); Edible fish, fresh or chilled (excluding 
fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304) (HS code(s) : 0302); Edible fish, frozen 
(excluding fillets and other fish meat of heading  0304) (HS code(s) : 0303); Fillets and 
other fish meat, whether or not minced, fresh, chilled or frozen (HS code(s) : 0304); Edible 
fish, dried, salted or in brine ; smoked fish, whether or not cooked before or during the 
smoking process, flours, meals and pellets of fish fit for human consumption (HS code(s) : 
0305); Crustaceans, whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in 
brine, whether or not smoked, including crustaceans in shell cooked by steaming or by 
boiling in water  (HS code(s) : 0306); Molluscs fit for human consumption, whether or not 
smoked, whether or not in shell, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine (HS 
code(s) : 0307); Aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, live, fresh, 
chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine, whether or not smoked (HS code(s) : 0308); 
Animal products, n.e.s. ; dead animals of any type, unfit for human consumption (HS 
code(s) : 0511); Fats and oils and their fractions, of fish or marine mammals, whether or 
not refined, but not chemically modified (HS code(s) : 1504); Prepared or preserved fish ; 
caviar and caviar substitutes prepared from fish eggs (HS code(s) : 1604); Crustaceans, 
molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates, prepared or preserved (not smoked) (HS 
code(s) : 1605); Flours, meals and pellets, of meat or meat offal, of fish or of crustaceans, 
molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, unfit for human consumption ; greaves (HS 
code(s) : 2301); Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding (HS code(s) : 2309); 
Provitamins and vitamins, natural or reproduced by synthesis, including natural 
concentrates, derivatives thereof used primarily as vitamins, and intermixtures of the 
foregoing, whether or not in any solvent (HS code(s) : 2936); Antibiotics (HS code(s) : 
2941); Peptones and their derivatives ; other protein substances and their derivatives, not 
elsewhere specified or included ; hide powder, whether or not chromed (HS code(s) : 
3504); Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids ; acid oils from refining ; industrial fat ty 
alcohols (HS code(s) : 3823).  
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  
[X] All trading partners  
[ ] Specific regions or countries:  G/SPS/N/ECU/314  
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  5. Title of the notified document : Plan Nacional de Control Sanitario de Acuicultura y 
Pesca  (National Plan for the Sanitary Control of Aquaculture and Fisheries) Language(s) : 
Spanish Number of pages : 54 
https://www.produccion.gob.ec/wp -content/uploads/2023/07/Borrador -Plan-Nacional -
CS-29-Junio-2023.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2023/SPS/ECU/23_12524_00_s.pdf  
6. Description of content : Sanitary requirements  for the export and import of fishery and 
aquaculture products and by -products.  
7. Objective and rationale : [X] food safety, [ ] animal health, [ ] plant protection, 
[ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [ ] protect territory from 
other damage from pests.  
8. Is there a relevant international standard ? If so, identify the standard:  
[X] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g. title or serial number of Codex 
standard or related text) : 
- CODEX S TAN 119 -1981, Standard for Canned Finfish.  
- CODEX S TAN 190 -1995, Standard for Quick Frozen Fish Fillets.  
- CODEX S TAN 92 -1981, Standard for Quick Frozen Shrimps or Prawns.  
- CODEX S TAN 1 -985, General Standard for the Labelling of Prepackaged Foods  
- CODEX S TAN 107 -1981, General Standard for the Labelling of Food Additives 
When Sold as Such  
- CODEX S TAN 192 -1995 
- CODEX S TAN 70 -1981, Standard for Canned Tuna and Bonito  
- CAC/GL 60 -2006, Principle for Traceability/Product Tracing as a Tool Within a 
Food Inspection and Certification System  
- CODEX S TAN 54 -2004, Code of Practice on Good Animal Feeding.  
- CODEX S TAN 52 -2003, Code of Practice for Fish and Fishery Products.  
[ ] World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. T errestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number) : 
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. I SPM No.) : 
[ ] None  
Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?  
[X] Yes [ ] No 
If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:  
9. Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : 24 November 2 023 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) : 24 November 2 023 
11. Proposed date of entry into force : [ ] Six months from date of publication, and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) : 4 March 2 024 
[X] Trade facilitating measure  G/SPS/N/ECU/314  
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  12. Final date for comments : [X] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : 25 November 2 023 
Agency or authority designated to handle comments : [X] National Notification 
Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point . Address, fax number and email address (if  
available) of other body:  
Subsecretaría de Calidad e Inocuidad  (SCI) 
Emilie Macías Suárez  
Av. Malecón 100 y Av. 9 de octubre, Edif . La Previsora, Guayaquil  
Tel.: +(593) 4 259 1370, Ext . 2072 
Email: regulacionsci@produccion.gob.ec  
13. Text(s) available from : [X] National Notification Authority, [ ] National Enquiry 
Point . Address, fax number and email address (if available) of other body:  
Subsecretaría de Calidad e Inocuidad  (SCI) 
Emilie Macías Suárez  
Av. Malecón 100 y Av. 9 de octubre, Edif . La Previsora, Guayaquil  
Tel.: +(593) 4 259 1370, Ext . 2072 
Email: regulacionsci@produccion.gob.ec