WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/COL/142 
3 July 2007 
 (07-2824) 
Committee on Sanitary and 
Phytosanitary Measures Original:   Spanish 
 
 
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   COLOMBIA  
If applicable, name of local government involved: 
2. Agency responsible:  Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario , ICA (Colombian Agricultural 
Institute) 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where 
applicable):  Domestic swine and products thereof 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:
 
 Andean Community member countries and third-country trading partners of 
Colombia  
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:  Proyecto de Resolución 
de la Secretaria General de la Comuni dad Andina "Norma Sanitaria Andina para el 
Comercio o la Movilización Intrasubregi onal y con Terceros Países de Porcinos 
Domésticos y sus Productos"  (Draft Resolution of the General Secretariat of the Andean 
Community "Andean health standard governing trade in and movement of domestic swine 
and products thereof at intra-subregional le vel and with third countries") (48 pages, in 
Spanish) 
6. Description of content:   Health requirements for international trade in and movement of 
domestic swine and products thereof;  Pur pose;  Scope and content;  Official bodies 
responsible;  Tariff headings and list of swin e and products thereof;  General requirements 
for live domestic swine;  Specific requirements for live domestic swine;  General 
requirements for products of swine;  Speci fic requirements for fresh, chilled or frozen 
meat, boneless or with bone in;  Specific re quirements for fresh edible meat offal of 
domestic swine (chilled or frozen) or edible meat  offal, raw, salted or in brine;  Specific 
requirements for raw meat products;  Specific requirements for cooked meat products or 
cooked edible meat offal;  Specific require ments for goods not elsewhere specified or 
included;  Specific requirements for semen a nd ova/embryos;  and Products of domestic 
swine not for human consumption. 
7. Objective and rationale:   [   ] food safety,  [ X ] animal health,  [   ] plant protection,  
[   ] protect humans from animal/plant pest  or disease, [   ] protect territory from 
other damage from pests    G/SPS/N/COL/142 
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  8. International standard, guideline or recommendation:  
[  ] Codex Alimentarius Commission,  [   ] World Organization for Animal Health 
(OIE),  [   ] International Plant Protection Convention,  [ X ] None  
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the 
appropriate reference and briefly identify deviations:    
9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  Resolutions 
Nos. 347 and 449 of the Council of the Cartagena Agreement and No. 623 of the General Secretariat of the Andean Community (available in Spanish). 
10. Proposed date of adoption:  Date on which the Resolution is signed 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  The measures necessary to ensure the implementation 
of this Resolution must be adopted within a period of ninety (90) calendar days as from the 
date of its publication in the Gaceta Oficial del Acuerdo de Cartagena (Official Gazette of 
the Cartagena Agreement). 
12. Final date for comments:  Sixty (60) days after notification by the World Trade 
Organization 
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [ X ] National notification 
authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if 
available) of other body:    
National enquiry point  
Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo Dirección de Regulación Calle 28 Nº 13A - 15, tercer piso 
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia 
Tel.: +(571) 241-0478 Fax: +(571) 241-0480 
or Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario
 
Grupo de Análisis de Riesgos Agropecuarios y Asuntos Internacionales - ICA 
Calle 37 #  8-43, Oficina 409 
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia Tel.: +(571) 285-3485 Fax: +(571) 232-4695 Web site: http://www.ica.gov.co  G/SPS/N/COL/142 
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  13. Texts available from:  [ X ] National notifi cation authority, [ X ] National enquiry 
point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:   
Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo 
Dirección de Regulación Calle 28 Nº 13A - 15, tercer piso  
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia 
Enquiry point
: 
Contact person: Daniel Héctor Rico R. Tel.: +(571) 606-7676, Ext. 1690 Fax: +(571) 241-0480 
E-mail: drico@mincomercio.gov.co 
Web site: http://www.mincomercio.gov.co