. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/CRI/98 
7 December 2009 
 (09-6274) 
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, Órgano de 
Reglamentación Técnica  (Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade, Technical 
Regulation Body) 
Tel.: (506) 2235-2700, Ext. 203 or (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 
Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Comercio - MEIC 
Apartado Postal 10216-1000, San José 
Tel.:  (506) 2235-2700, Ext. 264 Fax:  (506) 2297-1439 E-mail:  crotc@meic.go.cr Website: http://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 67.040 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   RTCR 436:2009 
Suplementos a la dieta.  Requisitos de regis tro sanitario, importación, desalmacenaje, 
etiquetado y verificación (Costa Rican Technical Regulation (RTCR) No. 436:2009: 
Dietary supplements.  Requirements pertaining to sanitary registration, importation, 
customs clearance, labelling and verification) (13 pages, in Spanish).  
6. Description of content:   The notified Technical Regula tion establishes the conditions and 
requirements for the sanitary registration, importation, customs clearance, labelling and 
verification of dietary supplements. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human life and hea lth, and consumer information.  G/TBT/N/CRI/98 
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  8. Relevant documents: 
1. Decreto Ejecutivo  (Executive Decree) No. 26012-MEIC, Costa Rican Technical 
Regulation (RTCR) No. 100:1997:  Etiquetado de los Alimentos Preenvasados (Labelling 
of pre-packaged foods), published in La Gaceta  (Official Journal) of 16 April 1997. 
 
2. Executive Decree No. 30256-MEIC-S, RTCR No. 135:2002:  Etiquetado Nutricional 
de los Alimentos Preenvasados (Nutrition labelling of pre-packaged food), published in the 
Official Journal of 15 April 2002.  3. Executive Decree No. 34728-S, Reglamento General para el Otorgamiento de 
Permisos de Funcionamiento por  parte del Ministerio de Salud  (General regulations 
governing the issuing of operating permits by the Ministry of Health), published in the 
Official Journal of 9 September 2008.  4. Executive Decree No. 33724, Central American Technical Regulation (RTCA) 
No. 67.01.30:06:  Alimentos Procesados.  Procedimiento para otorgar la licencia sanitaria 
a fábricas y bodegas (Processed foods.  Procedure for gr anting sanitary licences to factories 
and warehouses), published in the Offi cial Journal of 30 April 2007. 
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 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 Tel.:  (506) 2235-2700, Ext. 264 Fax:  (506) 2297-1439 or (506) 2235-8192 E-mail: crotc@meic.go.cr
 
Website: http://www.reglatec.go.cr  
The full text of the Regulation is available at: http://www.reglatec.go.cr/consulta/rtcr-436-09.pdf
 
and http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2009/tbt/cri/09_4231_00_s.pdf