WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/PER/16 
16 January 2008 
 (08-0194) 
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:   PERU
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:   Ministerio de Salud  (Ministry of Health) 
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 Exterior y Turismo, MINCETUR  (Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism) 
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):  
2401 
2401.10 
2401.10.10.00 2401.10.20.00 2401.20 
2401.20.10.00 
2401.20.20.00 2401.30.00.00 
 
2402 
 
2402.10.00.00 2402.20 2402.20.10.00 2402.20.20.00 2402.90.00.00  2403 
 
  
2403.10.00.00 
  2403.91.00.00 2403.99.00.00 Unmanufactured tobacco;  tobacco refuse. 
- Tobacco, not stemmed/stripped: 
- Dark tobacco - Light tobacco - Tobacco, partly or wholly stemmed/stripped: 
- Dark tobacco 
- Light tobacco - Tobacco refuse  
Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes, of 
tobacco or of tobacco substitutes  
- Cigars, cheroots and cigarillos, containing tobacco 
- Cigarettes containing tobacco: - Dark tobacco - Light tobacco - Other 
 
Other manufactured tobacco and manufactured 
tobacco substitutes;  "homogenised" or "reconstituted" tobacco;  tobacco extracts and 
essences 
- Smoking tobacco, whether or not containing tobacco 
substitutes in any proportion - Other: -"Homogenised" or "reconstituted" tobacco - Other  G/TBT/N/PER/16 
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  5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:   Reglamento de la Ley 
Nº 28705, Ley General para la Prevención y Control de los Riesgos del Consumo del 
Tobaco  (Regulation to Law No. 28705, General La w for the prevention and control of the 
risks of tobacco consumption) (26 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:  The notified draft Technical Regulation contains three (03) titles, 
fifty (50) articles, three (03) supplementa ry, transitional and final provisions and 
six (06) annexes, and covers technical a nd labelling issues designed to regulate the 
marketing of tobacco products. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: 
 The notified text seeks to protect public health and, in particular, to protect 
individuals, families and communities from the health, social, environmental and economic 
effects of tobacco consumption and exposure to  tobacco smoke.  It also seeks to regulate the 
marketing of tobacco products, to ensure that the advertising, promotion and sale of such 
products is aimed only at adults, and to est ablish inspection and administrative penalty 
mechanisms. 
8. Relevant documents:  
1. Publication where proposal will appear when adopted:  Official Journal El Peruano . 
2.  Reference standard:  WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control . 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined 
Six months after official publication 
10. Final date for comments:  8 April 2008 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, E-mail and Website addresses,  if available, of other body: 
http://www.comunidadandina.org/SIRT 
National Notification Authority 
Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo, MINCETUR Calle Uno Oeste Nº 50 – Urb. Corpac 
Lima 27, Perú Tel.: +(51) 1 513-6100, Ext. 8040 Fax: +(51) 1 513-6100, Ext. 8002 E-mail: otc@mincetur.gob.pe 
National Enquiry Point 
Comisión de Reglamentos Técnicos y Comerciales 
Instituto Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia y de la  Protección de la Propiedad Intelectual, INDECOPI Calle de la Prosa Nº 138 Lima 41, Perú 
Tel.: +(51) 1 224-7800, Ext. 1261 
Fax: +(51) 1 224-7800, Ext. 1329 E-mail: tbt-enquiry@indecopi.gob.pe  G/TBT/N/PER/16 
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  11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, E-mail and Website addresses,  if available, of other body:   (cont'd) 
 Ministerio de Salud, MINSA Vice Ministerio de Salud 
Av. Salaverry No. 801 
Lima 11, Perú Tel.: +(51) 1 315-6600, Ext. 2929/2924 Fax: +(51) 1 424-9975  E-mail: dsuarez@minsa.gob.pe