G/TBT/N/PER/124  
17 July 2020 
(20-4921) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.  
 
1. Notifying Member : PERU 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:  
Dirección General de Salud Ambiental e Inocuidad Alimentaria , DIGESA (Directorate -
General of Environmental Health and Food Safety)  
Las Amapolas # 350 Urb . San Eugenio, Lince, Lima , Peru  
Tel.: (+51-1) 631 -4430 
Email: digesaconsul@minsa.gob.pe  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email 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 Exterior y Turismo , MINCETUR (Ministry of Foreign Trade and 
Tourism)  
Calle Uno Oeste Nº 50 - Urb. Corpac - Lima 27 - Peru 
Tel.: (+51-1) 513 -6100, Ext. 1223 or 1239  
Email: otc@mincetur.gob.pe  
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) : Hazardous 
and similar substanc es for domestic, industrial and/or public health use ; Preparations for 
perfuming or deodorizing rooms, including odoriferous preparations used during religious 
rites (excluding "agarbatti" and other odoriferous preparations which operate by burning) 
(HS 33 0749) ; Surface -active preparations, washing preparations (including auxiliary 
washing preparations) and cleaning preparations, whether or not containing soap, put up 
for retail sale (excluding organic surface -active agents, soaps and organic surface -active  
preparations, in the form of bars, cakes, moulded pieces or shapes, as well as organic 
surface -active preparations for washing the skin, in the form of liquid or cream) (HS 
340220)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de 
reglamento de regulación y control de sustancias peligrosas y similares de uso doméstico, 
industrial y/o en salud pública  (Draft Regulation on the regulation and control of 
hazardous and similar substances for domestic, industrial and /or public health use) (30 
pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified draft Regulation governs the import, manufacture 
and marketing of chemicals in order to ensure that they are properly used and managed, 
are of good quality and do not pose a risk to public health.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Protection of human health or safety  G/TBT/N/PER/124  
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  8. Relevant documents:  
• Ley N° 26842, Ley General de Salud y sus modificatorias.  
• Decisión 706, Armoniz ación de legislaciones en materia de productos de higiene 
doméstica y productos absorbentes de higiene personal.  
9. Proposed date of adoption : To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force : Six months after publication in the Official Journal , 
El Peruano  
10. Final date for comments : 13 September 2 020 
11. Texts available from : National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo , MINCETUR (Ministry of Foreign Trade and 
Tourism)  
Calle Uno Oeste Nº 50 - Urb. Corpac - Lima 27 - Peru 
Tel.: (+51-1) 513 -6100, Ext. 1223 and 1239  
Email: otc@mincetur.gob.pe  
Dirección General de Salud Ambiental e Inocuidad Alimentaria , DIGESA (Directorate -
General of Environmental Health and Food Safety)  
Las Amapolas # 350 Urb . San Eugenio, Lince, Lima , Peru  
Tel.: (+51-1) 631 -4430 
Email: digesaconsul@minsa .gob.pe  
http://consultasenlinea.mincetur.gob.pe/notificaciones/Publico/FrmBuscador.aspx  
http://extranet.comunidadandina.org/sirt/public/index.aspx  
https://www.gob.pe/institucion/minsa/normas -legales/744553 -439-2020-minsa  
https://cdn.www.gob.pe/u ploads/document/file/903823/resolucion -ministerial -439-
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