. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/PRY/57 
20 April 2012 
 (12-2130) 
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:  
Ministerio de Salud Pública y Bienestar Social , MSPyBS (Ministry of Public Health and 
Social Welfare) Instituto Nacional de Alimentación y Nutrición , INAN (National Food and Nutrition 
Institute) 
Ministerio de Industria y Comercio , MIC (Ministry of Industry and Trade) 
Instituto Nacional de Tecnología, Normalización y Metrología , INTN (National Institute of 
Technology, Standardization and Metrology)  
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:  
Centro de Referencia de la  OMC (WTO Reference Centre) 
Dirección de Organismos Económicos Multilaterales 
 (Directorate of Multilateral Economic Organizations) 
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) 
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):   Cellulosic packaging 
and equipment that come into contact with food 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   P.  Res.  N° 01/12, 
Reglamento Técnico MERCOSUR sobre materi ales, envases y equipamientos celulósicos 
en contacto con alimentos (Draft Resolution No. 01/12:  MERCOSUR Technical 
Regulation on cellulosic materials, packaging and equipment that come into contact with food) (44 pages, in Spanish and Portuguese). G/TBT/N/PRY/57 
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  6. Description of content:  The notified Technical Regulation applies to packaging and 
equipment the surface of which that comes into  contact with food or food raw materials is 
of cellulose or of cellulose coated or treated with the waxes, paraffins, mineral oils or 
mineral pigments specified in Part II of the text.  The Regulation also applies to packaging 
and equipment which are composed of several layers of either the same material or different materials (multilayers) and meet the requirements set forth in point 1.1 of Part 1 thereof.  Moreover, the Regulation is app licable to the cellulosic fibres obtained from 
recycled material specified in point 1.2 of Part II:  "Positive list of components of cellulosic 
packaging and equipment that come into contact with food". 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human safety 
8. Relevant documents:  
Decreto No. 8.064/2006 "Por la cual pone en vigencia en la Republica del Paraguay de las 
Resoluciones adoptadas por el Grupo Mercado Común del Mercosur referentes al SGT N° 3, Normas Técnicas"  (Decree No. 8.064/2006 establishing the validity in the Republic 
of Paraguay of the Resolutions adopted by the MERCOSUR Common Market Group in 
respect of Sub-Working Group (SGT) No. 3, Technical Regulations); 
Decreto N° 17.056/2007 "Por el cual se dispone  la vigencia en la Republica del Paraguay 
de las Resoluciones adoptadas por el gr upo Mercado Común del Mercosur referentes a 
reglamentos técnicos"  (Decree No. 17.056/2007 establishing the validity in the Republic of 
Paraguay of the Resolutions adopted by the MERCOSUR Common Market Group in respect of technical regulations); 
Decreto N° 15.670/2001 "Por el cual se inco rpora al Ordenamiento Jurídico Nacional las 
resoluciones del Grupo Mercado Común, GMC"  (Decree No. 15.670/2001 incorporating 
MERCOSUR Common Market Group Resolutions into Paraguayan domestic legislation). 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  } - 
10. Final date for comments:   The Paraguayan authorities will respond to requests for 
documents and receive any relevant comment s in the 60 days following notification. 
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  
Text also available at:  
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