. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/CRI/108 
11 February 2011 
 (11-0691) 
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:   COSTA RICA
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:   Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Comercio, Departamento de 
Reglamentación Técnica  (Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade, Technical 
Regulation Department) 
Name and address (including telephone  and fax numbers, 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:  
TBT Enquiry Point 
Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade, MEIC 
Apartado Postal 10216-1000, San José 
Tel.:  +(506) 2235-2700, Ext. 206, or (506) 235-8192 Fax:  +(506) 2297-1439 E-mail:  mailto:crotc@meic.go.cr
 
Website: http://www.reglatec.go.cr  
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):   International 
Classification for Standards (ICS) Code 67.100.20 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:   RTCR 446:2010, 
Reglamento técnico queso edam (Costa Rican Technical Regulation (RTCR) No. 446:2010:  
Technical Regulation for Edam cheese) (13 pages, in Spanish) 
6. Description of content:   The notified Technical Regulation establishes the characteristics 
of and requirements for Edam cheese intende d for direct consumption or for further 
processing. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Consumer information  G/TBT/N/CRI/108 
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  8. Relevant documents: 
• International Bureau of Weights and Measures.  The International System of Units. 
8th Edition, BIPM. 2006;  
• France.  Joint Committee for Guides in Metrology, JCGM 200:2008.  International 
vocabulary of metrology - Basic and general concepts and associated terms (VIM).  
BIPM, 2008; 
• International Council for Science:  Comm ittee on Data for Science and Technology, 
CODATA.  Internationally recommended va lues of the Fundamental Physical 
Constants. 2006; 
• France:  International Organization of  Legal Metrology.  International 
Recommendation OIML R 22, Edition 1973.  Alcoholometry:  International Alcoholometric Tables.  OIML.  1973. 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  Date of publication in the Official Journal 
Six months after publication in the Official 
Journal  
10. Final date for comments:   60 days as from the date of notification 
11. Texts available from:  National enqui ry point [X] or address, telephone and 
fax numbers, E-mail and website addresse s, if available, of other body: 
TBT Enquiry Point 
Apartado Postal 10216-1000 San José, Costa Rica 
Tel.:  (+506) 2235-2700, Ext. 206 
Fax:  (+506) 2297-1439 E-mail: crotc@meic.go.cr
 
Website: http://www.reglatec.go.cr/  
The full text of the document is available at: 
http://www.reglatec.go.cr/consulta/446quesoedam.pdf  and 
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2011/tbt/cri/11_0200_00_s.pdf