WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/COL/127 
29 April 2009 
 (09-2078) 
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:   Secretaría General de la Comunidad Andina  (General Secretariat of 
the Andean Community)  
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 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 lignin sulphonates, but excluding tall oil of heading 38.03; 
1520.00.00 - Glycerol, crude; glycerol waters and glycerol lyes; 
28.15 - Sodium hydroxide (caus tic 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; 
3808.94.10 - Put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as articles; 
3808.94.11 - Containing bromomethane (met hyl bromide) or bromochloromethane; 
3808.94.19 - Other; 
3808.94.90 - Other; 
3808.94.91 - Containing bromomethane (met hyl bromide) or bromochloromethane; 
3808.94.99 - Other; G/TBT/N/COL/127 
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  4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICS numbers may be provided in  addition, where applicable):   (cont'd) 
3808.10.11 - Based on permethrin or cypermet hrin 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. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Proyecto de Decisión  
por el cual se establece el Reglamento Técn ico 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 operating requirements for estab lishments engaged in 
the manufacture of domestic hygiene products 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 (personnel, organization, sanitation and hygiene, buildings 
and facilities, equipment, accessories and t ools, maintenance and services, storage and 
distribution, handling of raw materials and 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 for conducting 
inspections of establishments which manufact ure 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 na ture 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 produc tos 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 Países 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 as from the date of publication in the Gaceta Oficial del Acuerdo de 
Cartagena (Official Gazette of the 
Cartagena Agreement) 
10. Final date for comments:   6 August 2009  G/TBT/N/COL/127 
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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) 241-0480 
E-mail: drico@mincomercio.gov.co  Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo Dirección de Regulación 
Calle 28 No. 13A - 15, tercer piso 
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia Tel.: (+571) 241-0478 Website: http://secgen.comunidadandina.org/sirt
 
 
Secretaría General de la Comunidad Andina 
Gerencia de Obstáculos Técnicos al Comercio Av. Paseo de la Republica 3895 Lima 27, Perú  Tel.: (511) 411-1400 Fax: (511) 221-3329 
E-mail: fnunez@comunidadandina.org  
Website: http://www.comunidadandina.org
 
 Ministerio de Salud Instituto Nacional de Vigilancia de Medicamentos y Alimentos, INVIMA 
Dr Clara Isabel Rodriguez Serrano  
Subdirección de Registros Sanitarios Carrera 68 D No. 17 - 11 / 21 Bogotá D.C., Colombia  Tel.: (571) 294-8700, Ext. 3930 
E-mail: invimalr@invima.gov.co 
Website: http://www.invima.gov.co