. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/CHL/139 
13 August 2010 
 (10-4286) 
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:  CHILE
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:   Ministerio de Energía  (Ministry of Energy) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and E-mail and Website 
addresses, if available) of agency or au thority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   Ministerio de 
Relaciones Exteriores  (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) 
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ ], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [X], 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):   Electrical conductors:  
type RV-K 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Protocolo de análisis 
y/o ensayos de seguridad de producto eléctrico - Conductor eléctrico denominación RV-K (Safety analysis and/or test protocol for electrical products - Type RV-K electrical 
conductors) (8 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   The notified Protocol establishes the safety certification 
procedure for single-core or multi-core elec trical conductors which are non-armoured and 
non-shielded, of annealed copper, bare or me tal-coated, flexible (class 5), cross-linked 
polyethylene-insulated (XLPE), with a thermopl astic polyvinyl chloride (PVC)/ST2 sheath, 
a service temperature to 90ºC and a rated volta ge of 0.6/1kV, in accordance with the scope 
and coverage of International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Standard
No. 60502-1:2009, code designati on RV-K, and in conformity with European Committee 
for Electrotechnical Standardiza tion (CENELEC) Harmonization Document
(HD) No. 603-1:1998. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Safety 
8. Relevant documents:   Protocolo de análisis y/o ensa yos de seguridad de producto 
eléctrico PE Nº2/15  (Safety analysis and/or test protocol for electrical products 
PE No. 2/15) 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force: }The corresponding resolution will be 
issued once the time required for analysing comments has elapsed. G/TBT/N/CHL/139 
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  10. Final date for comments:   11 October 2010 
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:  
Departamento de Acceso a Mercados 
Dirección General de Relacion es Económicas Internacionales 
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores Teatinos 180, piso 11, Santiago 
Tel.: (+56) 2 827-5491 
Fax: (+56) 2 380-9494 E-mail: tbt_chile@direcon.cl and cvasquez@direcon.cl 
Text available at: http://www.sec.cl/pls/portal/docs/PAGE/SECNORMATIVA/PRODUCTOS/PROTOCOLO
S%20EN%20CONSULTA/PROTOCOLO% 20SEGURIDAD%20PE%20N%BA%202-15
%202010%20CONDUCTOR%20RV-K%20(% 20CONSULTA%20PUBLICA).DOC 
and http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2010/tbt/chl/10_3089_00_s.pdf