. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/COL/121 
24 November 2008 
 (08-5731) 
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:  COLOMBIA
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:   Ministerio de la Protección Social (Ministry of Social Welfare)  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and 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:   Ministerio de 
Comercio, Industria y Turismo  (Ministry of Commerce, Industry 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):   Alcohol, alcoholic 
beverages. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Proyecto de Decreto 
del Ministerio de la Protección Social "Por el  cual se reglamenta parcialmente el Título V 
de la Ley 09 de 1979, en lo referente a los establecimientos de alcohol y bebidas alcohólicas, elaboración, hidratación, en vase, distribución, venta, exportación e 
importación de estos productos y se dictan otras disposiciones" (Draft Decree of the 
Ministry of Social Welfare "establishing partia l regulations under Title V of Law No. 09 of 
1979 in respect of establishments which produce,  hydrate, package, distribute, sell, export 
and import alcohol and alcoholic beverages, a nd issuing other provisions") (89 pages, in 
Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   Purpose and scope;  Definitions;  Basic hygiene requirements for 
the manufacture of alcohol and alcoholic be verages;  Buildings and installations;  
Equipment and utensils;  Product handlers;  Hygiene requirements during the manufacturing process;  Sanitation;  Storage, distribution, transportation and marketing;  
Quality assurance and control;  Technical speci fications;  Processes;  Physico-chemical 
requirements for pure and extra-neutral ethyl alcohol, neutral rectified alcohol, sugar cane 
rum ("aguardiente de caña", "caña", "cachaza"  and "branquiña"), anisette and aniseed 
liqueur ("anís" and "anisado"), aperitifs, brandy , beer, gin, rum, "sabajón" (Colombian egg 
liqueur), wine, vodka and whisky;  Packagi ng, labelling and advertising;  Sanitary 
registration;  Imports;  Exports;  Inspecti on, monitoring and control;  Sanitary safety 
measures and preventive sanitary measures;  Penalty procedure;  List of additives 
(Annex 1). G/TBT/N/COL/121 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: 
 To protect human health and prevent practices liable to mislead or deceive 
consumers. 
8. Relevant documents:   Law No. 09 of 1979, Article 16 of Law No. 30 of 1986, Article 1 of 
Law No. 124 of 1994, Decrees Nos. 3192 of 1983,  761 of 1993, 365 of  1994 and 2311 of 
1996, Decree No. 1575 of 2007 and Resolution No. 2115 of 2007. 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  Date on which the Decree is signed. 
Date of publication in the Official Journal. 
10. Final date for comments:   20 February 2009 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web site addresses, if available, of other body:  
Contact person:  Daniel Héctor Rico R. 
E-mail: drico@mincomercio.gov.co Tel.: +(571) 606 7676, Ext. 1690 Fax: +(571) 241 0480 
 
Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo Dirección de Regulación Calle 28 No. 13A-15, tercer piso Bogotá, D.C., Colombia Tel.: +(571) 241 0478 
Web site: http://secgen.comunidadandina.org/sirt
 
 Ministerio de la Protección Social Dirección General de Salud Pública Grupo de Salud Ambiental 
Carrera 13 No. 32-76 
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia Tel.: +(571) 330 5000, Ext. 1428 Fax:  +(571) 330 5050 E-mail:  bolarte@minproteccionsocial.gov.co 
Web site: http://www.minproteccionsocial.gov.co