WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/CRI/109 
11 February 2011 
 (11-0692) 
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 67.100.30 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:   RTCR 445:2010, 
Reglamento Técnico Queso Emmental  (Costa Rican Technical Regulation (RTCR) 
No. 445:2010:  Technical Regulation for Emmental cheese) (12 pages, in Spanish) 
6. Description of content:   The notified Technical Regulation establishes the characteristics 
of and requirements for Emmental cheese inte nded for direct consumption or for further 
processing. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Consumer information  
8. Relevant documents: 
• Italy.  Codex Alimentarius.  CODE X STAN 269-1967, Amendment 2008:  Codex 
Standard for Emmental; G/TBT/N/CRI/109 
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   • Costa Rica.  Decreto Ejecuti vo (Executive Decree) of the Ministry of the Economy, 
Industry and Trade No. 30256-MEIC-S, Costa Rican Technical Regulation (RTCR) No. 135:2002:  Etiquetado Nutricional de  los Alimentos Preenvasados (Nutrition 
labelling of pre-packaged food), published in La Gaceta (Official Journal) No. 71 of 15 April 2002; 
• Executive Decree of the Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade 
No. 26012-MEIC of 15 April 1997, Costa Rican Technical Regulation (RTCR) No. 100:1997:  Etiquetado de los Alimentos Preenvasados (Labelling of pre-packaged foods) and amendments thereto, published in  Official Journal No. 91 of 14 May 1997; 
• Executive Decree No. 31595-S of 2 December 2003:  Reglamento de Notificación de 
Materias Primas, Registro Sanitario, Importación, Desalmacenaje y Vigilancia de Alimentos (Regulation on the notificati on of raw materials and the sanitary 
registration, importation, customs clearan ce and monitoring of foodstuffs) and 
amendments thereto, published in Official Journal No. 16 of 23 January 2004; 
• Executive Decree of the Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade and Ministry of 
Agriculture and Livestock No. 33288-MEIC-MAG-S of 16 May 2006, Costa Rican Technical Regulation (RTCR) No. 395:2006:  Para el Uso de Términos Lecheras (Use 
of dairy terms), published in Official  Journal No. 164 of 28 August 2006; 
• Executive Decree of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Ministry of the Economy, 
Industry and Trade No. 33371-COMEX-MEIC of 10 August 2006 issuing Resolution 
No. 168-2006 (Council of Ministers for Ec onomic Integration (COMIECO) XLIX), 
Central American Technical Regulation (R TCA) No. 01.01.11:06:  Cantidad de 
Producto en Preempacados (Quantity of produc t in pre-packages), published in Official 
Journal No. 194 of 10 October 2006; 
• Executive Decree of the Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade and Ministry of 
Agriculture and Livestock No. 33812-MEIC-MAG-S of 6 February 2007, Costa Rican 
Technical Regulation (RTCR) No. 401-2006:  Leche cruda y leche higienizada (Raw 
milk and processed milk) and amendments th ereto, published in Official Journal 
No. 112 of 12 June 2007;  
• Executive Decree of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, Ministry of the Economy, Industry 
and Trade and Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock No. 35485-COMEX-S-MEIC-MAG of 15 June 2009 issuing Resolution No. 243-2009 
(COMIECO LV) approving Central Amer ican Technical Regulation (RTCA) 
No. 67.04.50:08:  Alimentos.  Criterios Mi crobiológicos para la inocuidad de los 
alimentos (Food products.  Microbiological criteria for food safety), published in 
Official Journal No. 184 of 22 September 2009; 
• Executive Decree of the Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade and Ministry of 
Agriculture and Livestock No. 34922- MEIC-MAG-S, Costa Rican Technical 
Regulation (RTCR) No. 407-2007:  Regl amento Técnico General para Quesos 
(General Technical Regulation for cheese), pub lished in Official Journal No. 238 of 9 
December 2008. 
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  G/TBT/N/CRI/109 
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  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/445quesoemmental.pdf  and 
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2011/tbt/cri/11_0201_00_s.pdf