. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/COL/85 
12 February 2007 
 
 (07-0613) 
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:   Ministerio de la Protección Social  (Ministry of Social Welfare) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and E-mail and Web site 
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 [ 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):   Land snails 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:   Proyecto de 
Resolución del Ministerio de la Protección Social "Por la cual se establece el reglamento 
técnico sobre los requisitos sanitarios que deben cumplir los establecimientos de 
procesamiento de caracoles de tierra y ca racoles destinados para el consumo humano" 
(Draft Ministry of Social Welfare Resolution "Establishing technical regulations on the 
sanitary requirements for establishments pro cessing land snails and snails destined for 
human consumption") (6 pages, in Spanish) 
6. Description of content:   This draft Resolution sets forth the sanitary requirements for 
establishments that process, package, transpor t, sell, import, export and market snails 
destined for human consumption.  It also establishes the following:  purpose;  scope;  
definitions;  sanitary requirements for snail processing establishments;  general requirements for snails;  microbiological requirements for snails;  conformity assessment;  surveillance, control and penalties;  a nd notification and period of validity. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
 Protection of human health and safety and prevention of practices likely to mislead 
the consumer. 
8. Relevant documents:   Law 1011 of 2006 , Decree No. 3075 of 1997 and Resolution 
No. 5109 of 2005 of the Ministry of Social Welfare. G/TBT/N/COL/85 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:   Date on which the Resolution is signed 
Six (6) months following the date of publication 
in the Official Journal 
10. Final date for comments:   8 May 2007 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X ], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and E-mail and Web site add resses, 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 No. 13A - 15, tercer piso Bogotá, D.C. Colombia  
Tel.: (+571) 241 0478 
Web site:   http://secgen.comunidadandina.org/sirt  Ministerio de la Protección Social Dirección General de Salud Pública 
Grupo de Promoción y Prevención 
Carrera 13 No. 32 - 76 Bogotá, D.C. Colombia  
Tel.:  (+571) 330 5000, ext. 1440 to 1445 
Fax:  (+571) 330 5050 E-mail:  bolarte@minproteccionsocial.gov.co Web site:   http://www.minproteccionsocial.gov.co