WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/CRI/95 
4 September 2009 
 (09-4187) 
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:   COSTA RICA
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Comercio, Dirección de Mejora 
Regulatoria y Reglamentación Técnica  (Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade, 
Regulatory Improvement and Technical Regulation Directorate) 
Tel.:  (506) 2235-2700, ext. 206/203 or (506) 2297-1439 
Name and address (including telephone  and fax numbers, 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:  
TBT Enquiry Point 
Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade, MEIC 
Apartado Postal 10216-1000, San José 
Tel.: +(506) 2235-2700, ext. 206/203 Fax: +(506) 2297-1439 E-mail: crotc@meic.go.cr Website: http:// www.reglatec.go.cr
 
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):   International 
Classification for Standards (ICS) code 67.100.20 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:   RTCR 434:2009, 
Mantequilla (Costa Rican Technical Regulation (RTCR) No. 434:2009:  Butter) (14 pages, 
in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   The notified Technical Regulati on applies to butter intended for 
direct consumption or further processing.  It does not apply to blends of butter and 
vegetable fat. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human life and hea lth, and consumer information.  G/TBT/N/CRI/95 
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  8. Relevant documents: 
• Decreto Ejecutivo  (Executive Decree) of the Ministry of the Economy, Industry and 
Trade No. 22268-MEIC, Costa Rican Standard (NCR) No. 148:1993:  Metrología:  
Contenido Neto de Productos Preempacados (Metrology:  Net contents of 
pre-packaged goods) and amendments thereto, published in La Gaceta  (Official 
Journal) No. 132 of 13 July 1993; 
• Executive Decree of the Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade 
No. 23355-MEIC, Costa Rican Standard (NCR) No. 26:1994:  Metrología, Sistema 
Internacional de Unidades, SI (Metrology:  International system of units) and 
amendments thereto, published in Official Journal No. 114 of 15 June 1994; 
• Executive Decree of the Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade 
No. 26012-MEIC, Costa Rican Technical Regulation (RTCR) No. 100:1997:  Etiquetado de los Alimentos Preenvasados (Labelling of pre-packaged foods) and 
amendments thereto, published in Official Journal No. 91 of 14 May 1997; 
• Executive Decree of the Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade 
No. 30256-MEIC-S, Costa Rican Technical Regulation (RTCR) No. 135:2002:  Etiquetado Nutricional de los Alimentos Preenvasados (Nutrition labelling of 
pre-packaged food) and amendments theret o, published in Official Journal No. 71 
of 15 April 2002; 
• Executive Decree No. 31595-S:  Reglamento de Notificación de Materias Primas, 
Registro Sanitario, Importación, Desalmacenaje y Vigilancia de Alimentos 
(Regulations on the notification of raw materials and the sanitary registration, 
importation, customs clearance and monitoring of foodstuffs) and amendments thereto, published in Official Journal No. 16 of 23 January 2004; 
• Executive Decree of the Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade and Ministry 
of Agriculture and Livestock No. 332 88-MEIC-MAG-S, Costa Rican Technical 
Regulation (RTCR) No. 395-2006:  Para el Uso de Términos Lecheros  (Use of 
dairy terms) and amendments thereto, pub lished in Official Journal No. 164 of 
28 August 2006; 
• Executive Decree of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Ministry of the Economy, 
Industry and Trade No. 33371-COMEX-MEIC, Resolution No. 168-2006 (Council of Ministers for Economic Integration (COMIECO) XLIX), Central American 
Technical Regulation (RTCA) No. 01.01.11:06:  Cantidad de Producto en 
Preempacados  (Quantity of product in pre-p ackages) and amendments thereto, 
published in Official Journal No. 194 of 10 October 2006; 
• Executive Decree of the Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade and Ministry 
of Agriculture and Livestock No. 338 12-MEIC-MAG-S, Costa Rican Technical 
Regulation (RTCR) No. 401-2006:  Leche Cruda y Leche Higienizada (Raw milk 
and processed milk) and amendments theret o, published in Official Journal No. 112 
of 12 June 2007. 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:   Upon publication in the Official Journal  
Six months after publication in the Official 
Journal  
10. Final date for comments:   60 days as from the date of notification  G/TBT/N/CRI/95 
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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: 
TBT Enquiry Point 
Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade, MEIC San José, Costa Rica 
Tel.: (+506) 2235-2700, ext. 264 
Fax: (+506) 2297-1439 or (+506) 2236-7192 E-mail: crotc@meic.go.cr
 
Website: http://www.reglatec.go.cr  
The full text of the Regulation is available at: 
http://www.reglatec.go.cr/consulta/rtcr-434-2009.pdf  
and http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2009/tbt/cri/09_2989_00_s.pdf