. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/COL/147 
21 April 2010 
 (10-2034) 
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:   Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario , ICA  (Colombian Agricultural 
Institute) 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, 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 applic able, otherwise national tariff heading.  
ICS numbers may be provided in  addition, where applicable):   Diethylstilbestrol (DES) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Proyecto de 
Resolución del Instituto Colombiano Agropecuar io – ICA "Por medio de la cual se prohíbe 
la importación, comercialización y uso de di etilestilbestrol en la producción de insumos 
veterinarios, así como su administración en cualquier especie animal" (Draft Resolution of 
the Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA) "P rohibiting the importation and marketing of 
diethylstilbestrol, its use in the production of ve terinary inputs and its administration to any 
species of animal") (2 pages, in  Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   Prohibition, notification and period of validity. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
To protect human and animal life and health. 
8. Relevant documents:   Bulletin of the World Health Organization No. 4 of 2004;  
Directive 2003/74/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September 2003 amending Council Directive 96/22/EC concerning the prohibition on the use in stockfarming of certain substances having a hormonal or thyros tatic action and of 
beta-agonists. 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  Date on which the Resolution is signed 
Date of publication in the Official Journal 
10. Final date for comments:   14 July 2010 G/TBT/N/COL/147 
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  11. Texts available from:  National enquiry  point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, E-mail and website addresses,  if available, of other body:  
Enquiry Point
: 
Contact person:  Daniel Héctor Rico R. Tel.: +(571) 606-7676, Ext. 1690 
Fax: +(571) 606-4777 
E-mail: drico@mincomercio.gov.co and Pu ntocontactotc-msf@mincomercio.gov.co 
 Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo Dirección de Regulación 
Calle 28 N° 13A – 15, tercer piso 
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia Tel.: +(571) 606-4775  Document available at:  https://servicios.vuce.gov.co/puntoc/vern.php 
 
Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario – ICA Subgerencia de Regulación Sanitaria y Fitosanitaria Dirección Técnica de Asuntos Internacionales Calle 37 # 8-43, Piso 4, Oficina 411 
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia 
Tel.: +(57-1) 287-2728 Fax: +(57-1) 285-3485 Website: http://www.ica.gov.co/
 
Document available at: 
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2010/tbt/col/10_1525_00_s.pdf