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G/TBT/N/CHL/189 
14 February 2012 
 (12-0850) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   Spanish 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Notifying Member:   CHILE 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   Ministerio del Medio Ambiente  (Ministry of the Environment) 
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 
Relaciones Exteriores  (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) 
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):   Medium-duty motor 
vehicles 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Anteproyecto de 
revisión de las Normas de Emisión Aplicables a Vehículos Motorizados Medianos, establecidas por el D.S Nº54 de 1994 del Mini sterio de Transporte y Telecomunicaciones 
(Preliminary draft revision of the emission st andards for medium-duty motor vehicles, as 
established by Supreme Decree No. 54 of 1994 of the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications) (8 pages, in Spanish).  
6. Description of content:   The notified text proposes establishing a schedule for the 
implementation of vehicle emission standa rds at national level (applicable to the 
metropolitan region, the continental territory of the 5th region, the 2nd to 10th regions, and 
the 15th region), with a view to harmonizing th e metropolitan region's emission standards 
with those of the rest of the country so as to ensure compliance with the maximum emission 
levels for carbon monoxide (CO), total hydr ocarbons (THC), non-methane hydrocarbons 
(NMHC), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and particulate matter (PM).  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human health 
8. Relevant documents:   Resolución Nº002 Aprueba Anteproyecto de Revisión de las 
Normas de Emisión Aplicables a Vehículos Motorizados Medianos  (Resolution No. 002 
approving the preliminary draft revision of the emission standards for medium-duty motor 
vehicles). G/TBT/N/CHL/189 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  }The corresponding decree will be issued once 
the time required for analysing comments has 
elapsed. 
10. Final date for comments:   24 April 2012 
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  
Text available at: 
http://www.sinia.cl/1292/w3-article-51659.html 
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2012/tbt/CHL/12_0599_00_s.pdf