. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/BOL/16 
31 March 2006 
 (06-1510) 
Committee on Sanitary and 
Phytosanitary Measures Original:   Spanish 
 
 
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  BOLIVIA1 
If applicable, name of local government involved:        
2. Agency responsible:  Servicio Nacional de Sanidad Agropecuaria e Inocuidad Alimentaria  - 
SENASAG (National Service for Agri cultural Health and Food Safety)  
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):  Live bovine animals and the products and by-products thereof  
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  All 
countries which trade with Andean Community Member Countries: Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia.  
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:  Resolución de la 
Comunidad Andina de Naciones que establece re quisitos sanitarios para el comercio 
internacional de bovinos y sus productos  (Andean Community of Nations (CAN) Resolution 
establishing health requirement s for international trade in bovine animals and the products 
thereof).  
6. Description of content:  This Resolution establishes health  requirements for international 
trade in bovine animals and the products  thereof and introduces amendments to 
CAN Resolutions Nos. 347, 449 and 315.  
7. Objective and rationale: [  X ] food safety,  [  X ] animal health,  [    ] plant protection, 
[   ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [    ] protect territory from 
other damage from pests        
8. International standard, guideline or recommendation: 
[ X ] Codex Alimentarius Commission,  [ X ] World Organization for Animal Health 
(OIE), [   ] International Plant Protection Convention,  [   ] None 
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate 
reference and briefly identify deviations:  Codex Alimentarius and the OIE Terrestrial 
Animal Health Code  
                                                      
1 Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela decided at the last meeting of the COTASA Animal Health 
Group that Bolivia should issue this notification given that the Resolution in question is a Community standard. G/SPS/N/BOL/16 
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  9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  Resolución de la 
Comunidad Andina de Naciones que establece re quisitos sanitarios para el comercio 
internacional de bovinos y sus productos  (Andean Community of Nations Resolution 
establishing health requirement s for international trade in bovine animals and the products 
thereof) (available in Spanish).  
10. Proposed date of adoption:  Two months as of the da te of this notification.  
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  Second half of April 2006  
12. Final date for comments:  60 days as of the date of notification  
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [    ] National notification 
authority, [    ] National enquiry point, or add ress, fax number and E-mail address (if 
available) of other body:  
Unidad Nacional de Sanidad Animal 
Servicio Nacional de Sanidad Agropecuar ia e Inocuidad Alimentaria (SENASAG) 
Av. José Natusch N° 221 Trinidad 
Departamento del Beni 
República de Bolivia 
Tel.: (591) 3-3462-5650 
Fax: (591) 3-3462-5650 E-mail: sanidadanimal@senasag.gov.bo
 
13. Texts available from:  [    ] National notification authority, [  X ] National enquiry 
point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:   
Dr Marcelo Lara Godoy , Coordinador General 
Área de Coordinación Interinstitucional - SENASAG 
Calle Jorge Sáenz, en tre Honduras y Haiti 
La Paz, Bolivia 
Tel.: (591) 2-222-9979 and (591) 2-222-9935 
Fax: (591) 2-222-0616 
E-mail: mlara@ senasag.gov.bo