. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/ECU/46 
8 May 2009 
 (09-2269) 
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:  ECUADOR
 
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 
Industrias y Competitividad (Ministry of Industry and Competitiveness) 
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 applic able, 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 (caustic 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; 
• 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; 
• Other; 
• 3808.94.91 – Containing bromomethane (met hyl bromide) or bromochloromethane; 
• 3808.94.99 – Other; 
• 3808.10.11 – Based on permethrin  or cypermethrin 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. G/TBT/N/ECU/46 
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  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 (p ersonnel, organization, sanitation and hygiene, 
buildings and facilities, equipment, accessories and tools, maintenance and services, storage 
and distribution, handling of raw materials a nd inputs, production, packing and packaging, 
quality assurance, documentation and records, references, complaints and claims and 
grounds for product withdrawal) and an annex c ontaining a guide to conducting inspections 
of establishments which manufacture domestic  hygiene products and absorbent personal 
hygiene products, which sets out the assessm ent 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 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X ], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and E-mail and Website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Enquiry Point:  
Contact person: Arturo Barbosa E-mail: abarbosa@mic.gov.ec; mepoveda@mic.gov.ec Tel:  (593-2) 256-6041, Ext. 162 
Fax:  (593-2) 250-4922 
Ministerio de Industrias y Competitividad 
Dirección de Políticas de Comercio Subsecretaría de Comercio e Inversiones Av. Eloy Alfaro y Amazonas 
Quito, Ecuador 
Website:  http://www.mic.gov.ec