. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/COL/99 
14 September 2007 
 (07-3844) 
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:  COLOMBIA
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:   Dirección General de Salud Pública del Ministerio de la Protección 
Social  (Department of Public Health, Ministry of Social Welfare) 
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 
Comercio, Industria y Turismo  (Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism) 
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [     ], 2.10.1 [ X ], 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):   Tricycles, scooters, 
pedal cars and similar wheeled toys;  dolls' carriages;  dolls, whether or not dressed;  reduced-size ("scale") models and similar recrea tional models, working or not;  puzzles of 
all kinds;  electric trains, including tracks, signals and other accessories;  toys representing 
animals or non-human creatures;  toy musical instruments and apparatus;  motorized toys;  
and balloons of natural rubber latex. 
9503001000, 9503002920, 9503003000, 9503004000, 9503009100, 9503009200, 
9503009300, 9503009400, 9503009500, 9503009600, 9503009900, 9503009910, 
9503009990. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Resolución Nº 3158 
del 10 de septiembre de 2007 del Ministerio de la Protección Social "Por la cual se expide 
el reglamento técnico de emergencia para lo s juguetes, sus componentes y accesorios, que 
se comercialicen en Colombia"  (Ministry of Social Welfare Resolution No. 3158 of 
10 September 2007 "Issuing emergency technical regulations for toys and their components 
and accessories which are marketed in Co lombia") (100 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   Purpose and scope;  exceptions;  definitions;  requirements;  
flammability;  electrical properties;  hygiene;  risk;  labelling;  monitoring and inspection 
bodies;  conformity assessment;  conformity assess ment procedure;  review and updating;  
notification;  transitional provisions;  period of validity and derogations. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
 To secure compliance with the sanitary requ irements for toys, so as to ensure the 
quality and safety of these domestically used products, most of which are intended for children, in order to protect and prev ent any possible risk to human health. G/TBT/N/COL/99 
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  8. Relevant documents:   Colombian Technical Standards NTC 4894 Part 1, NTC EN 71-2 
and NTC EN-71-3. 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  10 September 2007. 
Upon publication in the Official Journal, 
for twelve (12) months. 
10. Final date for comments:   Not applicable. 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, E-mail and website addresses,  if available, of other body:  
Enquiry Point: 
Contact person:  Daniel Héctor Rico R. 
E-mail: drico@mincomercio.gov.co 
Tel.: (+571) 606 7676, ext. 1690 Fax: (+571) 241 0480  Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo 
Dirección de Regulación 
Calle 28 N
o 13A – 15, tercer piso 
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia Tel.: (+571) 241 0478 Web site: http://secgen.comunidadandina.org/sirt