. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/PER/23 
28 May 2009 
 (09-2571) 
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:   PERU
 
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 Website 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:  Ministerio de 
Comercio Exterior y Turismo, MINCETUR  (Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism) 
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):  
Domestic hygiene products and ab sorbent personal hygiene products: 
- 3804.00 - Residual lyes from the manufacture of wood pulp, whether or not concentrated, desugared or chemically treated, including lig nin sulphonates, but excluding tall oil of 
heading 38.03; 
- 1520.00.00 - Glycerol, crude;  glycerol waters and glycerol lyes; 
- 28.15 - Sodium hydroxide (caustic soda);   potassium hydroxide (caustic potash);  
peroxides of sodium or potassium; 
Sodium hydroxide (caustic soda): 
- 2815.11.00 - Solid; 
- 2815.12.00 - In aqueous solution (soda lye or liquid soda); 
- 2815.20.00 - Potassium hydroxide (caustic potash); - 2815.30.00 - Peroxides of sodium or potassium; - 3808.94 - Disinfectants; 
Put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as articles: 
- 3808.94.11 - Containing bromomethane (m ethyl bromide) or bromochloromethane; 
- 3808.94.19 - Other; 
Other: 
- 3808.94.91 - Containing bromomethane (m ethyl bromide) or bromochloromethane; 
- 3808.94.99 - Other; - 3808.10.11 - Based on permethrin or cypermethrin or other synthetic substitutes for 
pyrethrum; 
- 3402.20.00 - Preparations put up for retail sale; - 4818.40.10 - Napkin liners for babies; - 4818.40.20 - Sanitary towels and tampons; - 4818.20.00 - Handkerchiefs, cleansing or facial tissues and towels. G/TBT/N/PER/23 
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  5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Proyecto de Decisión 
por el cual se establece el Reglamento Técnic o Andino "Requisitos para el Funcionamiento 
de Establecimientos dedicados a la Fabric ación de Productos de Higiene Doméstica y 
Productos Absorbentes de Higiene Personal" (Draft Decision establishing the Andean 
Technical Regulation laying down the operati ng requirements for establishments engaged 
in the manufacture of domestic hygiene produc ts and absorbent personal hygiene products) 
(28 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:  The notified draft Technical Regulation is comprised of 
fourteen (14) paragraphs of requirements (p ersonnel, organization, sanitation and hygiene, 
buildings and facilities, equipm ent, accessories and tools, ma intenance and services, storage 
and distribution, handling of raw materials a nd inputs, production, packing and packaging, 
quality assurance, documentation and records, references, complaints and claims and 
grounds for product withdrawal) and an annex containing a guide to conducting inspections 
of establishments which manufacture domestic  hygiene products and absorbent personal 
hygiene products, which sets out the assessment and grading criteria for control and 
monitoring inspections. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: 
Protection of human life and health. 
8. Relevant documents:  
Decisión 706 "Armonización de legislaciones en materia de productos de higiene 
doméstica y productos absorbentes de higiene personal"  (Andean Community Decision 
No. 706:  Harmonization of legislation on domestic hygiene products and absorbent 
personal hygiene products) and Decisión 562 "Directrices para la elaboración, adopción y 
aplicación de Reglamentos Técnicos en los Pa íses Miembros de la Comunidad Andina y a 
nivel comunitario" (Andean Community Decision No. 562:  Guidelines for the preparation, 
adoption and implementation of technical regulations in member countries of the 
Andean Community and at Community level). 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:   September 2009 
Six months after publication in the Gaceta 
Oficial del Acuerdo de Cartagena (Official 
Gazette of the Cartagena Agreement) 
10. Final date for comments:  6 August 2009 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, E-mail and Website addresses,  if available, of other body: 
Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo, MINCETUR 
Calle Uno Oeste Nº 50 - Urb. Corpac Lima 27, Perú 
Tel.: +(51-1) 513-6100, Ext. 8040 
Fax: +(51-1) 513-6100, Ext. 8002 E-mail: otc@mincetur.gob.pe Website: www.mincetur.gob.pe/reglamentostecnicos
, www.comunidadandina.org/sirt  
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