. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/COL/169 
4 April 2012 
 (12-1749) 
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:   COLOMBIA 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:   Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social  (Ministry of Health and 
Social Welfare) 
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:  
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):   Baby and infant foods. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Proyecto de 
Resolución del Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social "Por la cual se establece el Reglamento Técnico sobre los requisitos que  deben cumplir los alimentos infantiles 
nacionales e importados que se comercialicen en el territorio nacional para consumo 
humano y se dictan otras disposiciones"  (Draft Ministry of Health and Social Welfare 
Resolution "Establishing the Technical Regul ation on the requirements to be met by 
domestically produced and imported baby and infant foods marketed in Colombia for 
human consumption, and adopting other provisions") (46 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   The notified draft Resolution covers the following:  Purpose;  
Scope;  Definitions;  Prohibitions ;  Contaminants and additives;  Classification of baby and 
infant foods;  Specific prohibition;  Genera l conditions;  Essential composition and quality 
factors;  Food additives;  Microbiological requirements;  Packaging conditions;  Labelling;  Inspection, monitoring, control and penalties;   Review and updating;  Notification and 
period of validity. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
To protect health and prevent practices li kely to mislead or deceive consumers. 
8. Relevant documents:   Law No. 09 of 24 January 1979;  Law No. 1122 of 2007;  
Decree No. 3075 of 23 December 1997;  Decree No. 1397 of 24 August 1992;  Resolution 
No. 5109 of 29 December 2005;  Resolution No. 2606 of 27 July 2009;  and Ministry of 
Health and Social Welfare Resolution No. 333 of 10 February 2011, as notified in documents G/TBT/N/COL/69/Add.1, G/TBT/N/COL/97/Add.2 and G/TBT/N/COL/81/Add.5, respectively. G/TBT/N/COL/169 
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  Codex Alimentarius General Principles for Establishing Minimum and Maximum Values 
for the Essential Composition of Infant Formula;  Codex Advisory List of Mineral Salts and 
Vitamin Compounds for Use in Foods for In fants and Children (CAC/GL 10-1979);  Codex 
General Standard for Food Additives;  and Inte rnational Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk 
Substitutes. 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:   Date on which the Resolution is signed.
Eighteen (18) months after date of publication in the Official Journal. 
10. Final date for comments:   26 June 2012 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry  point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and website addresses,  if available of the other body: 
Contact person:  Daniel Héctor Rico R. 
Tel.: (+57-1) 606 7676, Ext. 1690 Fax: (+57-1) 606 4777 E-mail: drico@mincomercio.gov.co;  
 mailto:Puntocontactotc-msf@mincomercio.gov.co 
 
Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo Dirección de Regulación Calle 28 N° 13A - 15, tercer piso Bogotá, D.C., Colombia 
Tel.: (+57-1) 606 4775 
 Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social Dirección de Promoción y Prevención Carrera 13 N° 32 – 76 
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia 
Tel.: (+57-1) 330 5000, Ext. 1266 Fax: (+57-1) 330 5050, Ext. 1280 E-mail: bolarte@minproteccionsocial.gov.co  
Website: http://www.minproteccionsocial.gov.co/  
 
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