. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/CRI/125 
19 October 2011 
 (11-5186) 
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 Salud, Dirección de Regulación   
(Ministry of Health, Regulation Department) 
Tel.: +(506) 2255-1540 
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 
Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Comercio , MEIC  
(Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade) 
Apartado Postal 10216-1000, San José 
Tel.:  +(506) 2291-2115, Ext. 206 Fax:  +(506) 2291-2015 E-mail:  crotc@meic.go.cr  
Website: http://www.reglatec.go.cr  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ ], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ ], other:  TRANSPARENCY 
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 67.060 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Reglamento para el 
Enriquecimiento del Arroz (Costa Rican Regulation on the en richment of rice) (5 pages, 
in Spanish) 
6. Description of content:   The provisions of the notified Regulation apply to long-grain 
pounded rice, except for the gourmet variety, intended for direct human consumption in Costa Rica, whether domestically produced, donated or imported. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human health.  G/TBT/N/CRI/125 
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  8. Relevant documents: 
- Decreto Ejecutivo  (Executive Decree) No. 26012-MEIC of the Ministry of the 
Economy, Industry and Trade of 15 April 1997, Costa Rican Technical Regulation 
(RTCR) No. 100:1997:  Etiquetado de los A limentos Preenvasados (Labelling of 
pre-packaged foods) and amendments th ereto, published in Official Journal 
La Gaceta  No. 91 of 14 May 1997; 
- Executive Decree of the Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade 
No. 30256-MEIC-S of 15 January 2002, Costa Rican Technical Regulation 
(RTCR) No. 135:2002:  Etiquetado Nutricional de los Alimentos Preenvasados 
(Nutrition labelling of pre-packaged foods), published in Official Journal No. 71 of 
15 April 2002; 
- 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 Economic Integration 
(COMIECO) XLIX), Central American Technical Regulation (RTCA) No. 01.01.11:06:  Cantidad de Producto en Preempacados  (Quantity of product in 
pre-packages), published in Official Journal No. 194 of 10 October 2006; 
- Executive Decree of the Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade 
No. 36463-MEIC of 26 November 2010, Costa Rican Technical Regulation 
(RTCR) No. 443:2010:  Metrología.  Unidades de Medida.  Sistema Internacional 
(SI) (Metrology.  Measurement units.  International System (SI)), published in 
Official Journal No. 56 of 21 March 2011; 
- Executive Decree No. 34394-S of 4 December 2007:  Reforma Reglamento para el 
Enriquecimiento del Arroz  (Amendment to the Regulation on the enrichment of 
rice), published in Official Journal No. 58 of 25 March 2008. 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force: }Date of publication in the Official Journal 
10. Final date for comments:   Not applicable  
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) 2291-2115, Ext. 206 Fax:  (+506) 2291-2015 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/decretos/30031.pdf  and 
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2011/tbt/CRI/11_3372_00_s.pdf