. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/COL/125/Add.2 
24 February 2009 
 (09-0948) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   Spanish 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
Addendum
 
  
The following communication, received on 19 Fe bruary 2009, is being circulated at the 
request of the delegation of Colombia
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Health measure establishing the official inspection,  monitoring and control system and the sanitary 
and safety requirements for meat, edible meat pr oducts and meat by-products  for human consumption  
  The Republic of Colombia hereby advises that a draft amendment has been issued to Ministry 
of Social Welfare Decree No. 1500 of 4 May 2007 "Issuing the Technical Regulation establishing the 
official inspection, monitoring and control syst em for meat, edible meat products and meat 
by-products for human consumption and the sanitary  and safety requirements to be met by the 
primary production, slaughter, cutting, processing, st orage, transport, marketing, sale, importation and 
exportation of such products", notified by the World Trade Organization in document 
G/SPS/N/COL/125/Add.1 of 11 June 2007. 
 
 The draft amendment involves the following:  
- Addition of two definitions to Artic le 3 of Decree No. 1500 of 2007; 
- addition of one paragraph to Article 21 of  Decree No. 1500, as amended by Article 2 
of Decree No. 2965 of 2008; 
- amendments to Articles 24, 25, 40, 46 and 52 of Decree No. 1500 of 2007; 
- amendment, and addition of one paragraph, to Article 26.2.2 of Decree No. 1500 of 
2007; 
- amendment, and addition of one  paragraph, to Article 34 of  Decree No. 1500 of 2007;  
and 
- amendment, and addition of tw o paragraphs, to Article 4 of  Decree No. 2965 of 2008. G/SPS/N/COL/125/Add.2 
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  This addendum concerns a: 
 
 [ ] Modification of final date for comments 
 [ ] Notification of adoption, publication or entry into force of regulation 
 [X] Modification of content and/or scope of previously notified draft regulation 
 [ ] Withdrawal of proposed regulation 
 [ ] Change in proposed date of adoption, publication, or date of entry into force 
 [ ] Other: 
 
Comment period:  (If the addendum extends the scope of the previously notified measure 
in terms of products and/or potentially affected Members, a new deadline for receipt of comments 
should be provided, normally of at least 60 cale ndar days.  Under other circumstances, such as 
extension of originally announced final date fo r comments, the comment period provided in the 
addendum may vary.)  
 [ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the addendum to the notification and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) : 
  Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [ X] National Notification 
Authority, [ X] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fa x number and e-mail address (if available) 
of other body
: 
 Text available from:  [ X] National Notification Authority, [ X] National Enquiry Point.  
Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body: 
 
Enquiry Point : 
Contact person:  Daniel Héctor Rico R. 
Calle 28 Nº 13A-15, tercer piso 
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia 
Tel.: (+571) 606-7676, ext. 1690 Fax: (+571) 241-0480 E-mail: drico@mincomercio.gov.co 
 
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