. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/BRA/333 
25 June 2009  
 (09-3123) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  BRAZIL
  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  Brazilian Sanitary Surveillance Agency – ANVISA 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or auth ority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above :   
National Institute of Metrology, Standa rdization and Industrial Quality-INMETRO 
Tel: +(55) 21 2563 2821 Fax: +(55) 21 2502 6542 Email: barreirastecnicas@inmetro.gov.br Website: http://www.inmetro.gov.br/barreirastecnicas/
 
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):  Food packaging. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Resolution nº 30, 
26 May 2009 – Food packaging  (17 pages, in Portuguese).  
6. Description of content:  This Technical Regulation establishes the general criteria for the 
determination of total and specific migrati on, and applies to the following packages and 
equipment that get in contact with food: 
- consisting exclusively of plastic; 
- consisting of two or more layers of materials, each consisting exclusively of plastic; - consisting of two or more layers of materials,  one or more of which may not be exclusively 
of plastic, where the layer that gets into contact with food is plastic.  This technical regulation has been harmonized in Mercosur  – Draft Resolution GMC nº 
06/2008 (SGT nº 3 – Technical Regulations/Food Co mission/Mercosur). It  is an update of 
Resolutions GMC nº 30/92, 36/92, 10/95, 32/97, 33/97.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of Human Health  
8. Relevant documents:   Brazilian Offi cial Journal (Diário Ofic ial da União), 27 May 2009; 
Section 1. Draft Resolution (Consulta Pública)  number 30, 26 May 2009, issued by Brazilian 
Sanitary Surveillance Agency – Anvisa; When adopted, it will be  published at  the  Brazilian 
Official Journal. Available in Portuguese.   G/TBT/N/BRA/333 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption:   
 Proposed date of entry into force:    To be determined after the end of the 
consultation period.  On the date of adoption. 
10. Final date for comments:  27 July 2009 
11. Text available from: National enquiry po int [ X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addres ses, if available of the other body:    
National enquiry point 
Agency responsible 
Brazilian Sanitary Surveillance Agency – ANVISA 
SIA, Trecho 5, Área Especial 57 Brasília – DF / Brazil CEP: 71.205-050 Tel: 55 61 3462 5402 Email: rel@anvisa.gov.br  
Website: http://www.anvisa.gov.br/
 
http://www4.anvisa.gov.br/base /visadoc/CP/CP[26688-1-0].PDF