. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/CHL/140 
13 August 2010 
 (10-4287) 
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 Energía  (Ministry of Energy) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and E-mail and Website 
addresses, if available) of agency or au thority 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 [ ], 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):   Electrical conductors:  
type RZ1 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Protocolo de análisis 
y/o ensayos de seguridad de producto eléct rico - Conductor eléctrico denominación RZ1 
(Safety analysis and/or test protocol for electrical products - Type RZ1 electrical 
conductors) (9 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   The notified Protocol establishes the safety certification 
procedure for single-core or multi-core elec trical conductors which are non-armoured and 
non-shielded, non-flame and non-fire propagati ng, with low toxic gas emissions, low 
smoke density and low combustion gas acidity , made of annealed copper, bare or 
metal-coated, solid (class 1) or stranded (c lass 2), cross-linked polyethylene-insulated 
(XLPE), with a sheath of type ST8 thermoplas tic material, halogen-free, with a service 
temperature to 90ºC and a rated voltage of  0.6/1kV, in accordance with the scope and 
coverage of International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Standard No. 60502-1:2009, 
code designation RZ1, and in conformity w ith European Committee for Electrotechnical 
Standardization (CENELEC) Harmonizati on Document (HD) No. 603-1:1998. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Safety 
8. Relevant documents:   Protocolo de análisis y/o ensa yos de seguridad de producto 
eléctrico PE Nº2/16  (Safety analysis and/or test protocol for electrical products 
PE No. 2/16) G/TBT/N/CHL/140 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force: }The corresponding resolution will be 
issued once the time required for analysing comments has elapsed. 
10. Final date for comments:   11 October 2010 
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 and cvasquez@direcon.cl 
Text available at: http://www.sec.cl/pls/portal/docs/PAGE/SECNORMATIVA/PRODUCTOS/PROTOCOLO
S%20EN%20CONSULTA/PROTOCOLO% 20SEGURIDAD%20PE%20N%BA%202-16
%202010%20CONDUCTOR%20RZ1%20(% 20CONSULTA%20PUBLICA).DOC 
and http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2010/tbt/chl/10_3090_00_s.pdf