WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/ECU/10 
22 February 2006 
 (06-0752) 
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:   ECUADOR
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible: 
 
Dirección Nacional de Políticas de Comercio Exterior  (National Directorate of Foreign 
Trade Policy) 
Subsecretaría de Comercio Exterior e Integración  (Under-Secretariat of Foreign Trade and 
Integration) Ministerio de Comercio Exterior, Industrialización, Pesca y Competitividad  (Ministry of 
Foreign Trade, Industrialization, Fisheries and Competitiveness)  
Av. Amazonas y Av. Eloy Alfaro 
Quito, Ecuador Tel.: (+593) 2 2566041, Ext. 161 Fax: (+593) 2 2541984 E-mail:  abarbosa@micip.gov.ec
 
Web site: www.micip.gov.ec  
 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site 
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 applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in  addition, where applicable):   99000000 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:   Proyecto de 
Reglamento Técnico Ecuatoriano RTE INEN  015 para el rotulado de productos (Draft 
Ecuadorian Technical Regulation RTE INEN 015 on product labelling) (5 pages, in 
Spanish). G/TBT/N/ECU/10 
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  6. Description of content:  
 - The notified draft Ecuadorian Technical Regulation lays down the 
minimum requirements for product labelling, with a view to ensuring human health and safety, preventing practices likely to mislead consumers and protecting the environment. 
 - This draft Regulation specifies its scope, and covers definitions, general 
requirements, specific requirements, conformity assessment tests, proof of conformity, administrative procedure for verifying conformity with this Regulation, inspection and supervisor y authority, penalties, liability of 
conformity assessment bodies, review and updating, and entry into force. 
 - This draft Regulation provides that the labelling of textiles must 
demonstrate conformity with Ecuadorian Technical Standard
NTE INEN 484. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
 Protection of human health and safety, prevention of fraud or misrepresentation arising 
from misleading advertising or labelling, and environmental protection. 
8. Relevant documents:  
 1. Publication in which notice appears: 
  http://www.micip.gov.ec  
  http://www.inen.gov.ec  
 2. Proposal and basic document:  Ecuadorian Technical Regulation
RTE INEN 015 
 3. Publication in which proposal will appear following adoption:  Registro 
Oficial  (Official Journal) 
 4. NTE INEN 484:  Product labelling; Law No. 21:  Ley Orgánica de Defensa 
del Consumidor y su Reglamento  (Organic Law on consumer protection and 
Regulations thereto):  Chapter III:  Regulación de la publicidad y su contenido 
(Regulation of advertising and the contents thereof) and Chapter IV: 
Información básica comercial  (Basic marketing information). 
 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   }Six months after adoption. 
90 days after circulation by the WTO 
Secretariat. 
10. Final date for comments:   60 days after circulation by the WTO Secretariat.  G/TBT/N/ECU/10 
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  11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body: 
National enquiry point: 
 Dirección Nacional de Políticas de Comercio Exterior 
Subsecretaría de Comercio Exterior e Integración 
Ministerio de Comercio Exterior, Industrialización, Pesca y Competitividad Av. Amazonas y Av. Eloy Alfaro Quito, Ecuador  
Tel.: (+593) 2 2566041, Ext. 161 
Fax: (+593) 2 2541984 E-mail:  abarbosa@micip.gov.ec
 
Web site: www.micip.gov.ec  
 
or: 
 Regulatory body:  Instituto Ecuatoriano de Normalización (INEN) 
Baquerizo Moreno E8-29 y Almagro 
Quito, Ecuador Tel.: (+593) 2 2528556/2501885 to 2501887 Fax: (+593) 2 2567815 E-mail:  furresta@inen.gov.ec
 
Web site: www.inen.gov.ec