. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/CRI/83 
2 September 2008 
 (08-4105) 
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:   COSTA RICA
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:  
Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Comercio , MEIC 
(Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade) Dirección de Mejora Regulatoria y Reglamentación Técnica  
(Regulatory Improvement and Technical Regulation Directorate) 
Tel.: +(506) 2235-2700, ext. 264 Fax: +(506) 2297-1439 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, 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:  
TBT Enquiry Point 
Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade, MEIC Apartado Postal 10216-1000, San José Tel.: (+506) 2235-2700, Ext. 264 
Fax: (+506) 2297-1439 
E-mail:  crotc@meic.go.cr Web site: www.reglatec.go.cr
 
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):   International 
Classification for Standards (ICS) Code 97.200.50 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:   RTCR 421:2008. 
Juguetes. Etiquetado (Costa Rican Technical Regulation (RTCR) No. 421:2008:  Toys. 
Labelling) (7 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   The notified Technical Regulation establishes the labelling 
requirements for toys to ensure that the necess ary information is available to consumers and 
that their purchase decisions are not adversely affected as well as to guarantee user safety. 
This Regulation applies to all domestically manufactured and imported toys marketed in 
Costa Rica. G/TBT/N/CRI/83 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: 
 Consumer protection.
 
8. Relevant documents:  
• European Economic Community.  Council Directive 88/378/EEC of 3 May 1988 on 
the approximation of the laws of the Member States concerning the safety of toys. 
• Chile.  Series of technical information sheets: Rotulación de Juguetes  (Labelling of 
toys), December 2005, National Consumer Service. 
• Mexico.  Mexican Official Standard NOM 015-SCFI 1998:  Información Comercial – 
Etiquetado de juguetes  (Commercial information  Labelli ng of toys), published in the 
Mexican Official Journal of 5 March 1999. 
 Chile. Decree No. 114-2005:  Reglamento sobre seguridad de los juguetes  (Regulation 
on toy safety), published in the Chilean Offici al Journal of 17 June 2005. Ministry of 
Health. 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
 
Proposed date of entry into force:   Upon publication in the Official Journal 
Six months after publication in the Official 
Journal 
10. Final date for comments:   60 days as from the date of notification 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, E-mail and website addresses,  if available, of other body: 
TBT Enquiry Point 
San José, Costa Rica 
E-mail: crotc@meic.go.cr  Web site: http://www.reglatec.go.cr Tel.: (+506) 2235-2700, Ext. 264 Fax: (+506) 2297-1439 or 2236-7192 
 
The full text of the text is available online at: 
http://www.reglatec.go.cr/consu lta/RTCR%20JUGUETES%20OMC.pdf
 
and http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2008/tbt/CRI/08_2649_00_s.pdf