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G/TBT/N/CHL/190 
14 February 2012 
 (12-0851) 
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:   CHILE 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:   Ministerio del Medio Ambiente  (Ministry of the Environment) 
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:   Ministerio de 
Relaciones Exteriores  (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) 
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 app licable, otherwise national tariff heading 
ICS numbers may be provided in  addition, where applicable):   Light motor vehicles 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Anteproyecto de 
Revisión de las Normas de Emisión Aplic ables a Vehículos Motorizados Livianos, 
establecidas por el D.S Nº 211 de 1991 del Mini sterio de Transporte y Telecomunicaciones  
(Preliminary draft revision of the emission sta ndards applicable to light motor vehicles, as 
established by Supreme Decree No. 211 of 1991 of the Ministry of Transport and 
Telecommunications) (8 pages, in Spanish).  
6. Description of content:  The notified text proposes establishing a schedule for the 
implementation of vehicle emission standa rds at national level (applicable to the 
metropolitan region, the continental territory of  the fifth region, the second to tenth regions, 
and the fifteenth region), with a view to harmonizing the metropolitan region's emission standards with those of the rest of the c ountry so as to ensure compliance with the 
maximum emission levels for carbon monoxi de (CO), total hydrocarbons (THC), 
non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHC), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and particulate matter (PM). 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
To protect human health. 
8. Relevant documents:   Resolución Nº003 Aprueba Anteproyecto de Revisión de las 
Normas de Emisión Aplicables a Vehículos Motorizados Livianos (Resolution No. 003 
approving the preliminary draft revision of the emission standards applicable to light motor 
vehicles). G/TBT/N/CHL/190 
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  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:   24 April 2012 
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: 
Departamento de Acceso a Mercados 
Dirección General de Relacion es Económicas Internacionales 
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores Teatinos 180, piso 11, Santiago Tel.: (+56) 2 827-5491 Fax: (+56) 2 380-9494 E-mail: tbt_chile@direcon.cl  
 
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