. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/CHL/81 
10 October 2008 
 (08-4818) 
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:  CHILE
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:   Ministerio de Salud  (Ministry of Health) 
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:   Ministerio de 
Relaciones Exteriores  (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) 
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [  X ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [ X ], 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):   Cosmetic products 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:   Modifica Decreto 
Supremo Nº239 de 2002, del Ministerio de Sal ud, que aprueba el reglamento del sistema 
nacional de control de cosméticos  (Amendment to Supreme Decree No. 239 of 2002 of the 
Ministry of Health approving the regulations of the National System for the Monitoring of 
Cosmetics) (10 pages, in Spanish) 
6. Description of content:   The notified proposed regulatory  amendment seeks to enhance the 
mechanisms and authorization procedures in  respect of sanitary registration and the 
manufacture of cosmetic products, which are ba sed on the level of health risk that the 
various categories of these products represent.  It  also clarifies the definitions of counterfeit, 
altered, contaminated and a dulterated products and establishe s a penalty system in this 
respect, in line with the anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy strategy.  The draft text also 
clarifies certain technical definitions and guidelines relating to production and marketing 
surveillance.  Lastly, given the health impli cations of some cosmetic products, it establishes 
special requirements to ensure  the scientific endorsement of their properties (e.g. sun 
protection factors, cosmetics for children, etc.) and the safety and effectiveness of the 
products. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: 
 
 Updating of technical standards relating to  the registration, importation, entry and 
exportation, production, storage, possession and distribution, and advertising of cosmetic 
products, in accordance with the public hea lth protection and good faith requirements 
currently in effect. G/TBT/N/CHL/81 
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  8. Relevant documents:   Propuesta que  modifica Decreto Supremo Nº239 de 2002, del 
Ministerio de Salud, que aprueba el reglamento del sistema nacional de control de 
cosméticos  (Proposed amendment to Ministry of  Health Supreme Decree No. 239 of 2002 
approving the regulations of the National System for the Monitoring of Cosmetics) 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force: }The corresponding Decree will be issued once the time required for analysing comments has 
elapsed. 
10. Final date for comments:   3 December 2008 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and e-mail and web site add resses, if available, of other body:  
Departamento de Acceso a Mercados 
Dirección General de Relacion es Económicas Internacionales 
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores Teatinos 180, piso 11 
Tel.: (+56) 2 8275100 
Fax: (+56) 2 3809494 
E-mail: caramirez@direcon.cl
 
Text available from the Ministry of Health web site: 
http://www.redsalud.gov.cl/portal/url/page/min salcl/g_consultas/g_consultas_publicadas/co
smeticos.html  
and 
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2008/tbt/CHL/08_3199_00_s.pdf