. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/ARG/186 
4 July 2005 
 (05-2893) 
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:   ARGENTINA
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   Administración Nacional de Alimentos, Medicamentos y Tecnología 
Médica  (National Food, Drug and Medical Technology Administration) -  ANMAT 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, 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:   National enquiry 
point 
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [    ], 2.10.1 [ X ], 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):   Dietary supplements 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Suplementos 
Dietarios:  Bebidas No Alcohó licas Energizantes.  Modificación (Dietary Supplements: 
Non-Alcoholic Energy Drinks. Amendm ent) (2 pages, in Spanish) 
6. Description of content:   The Technical Regulation concerning these dietary supplements: 
1. Reduces the permitted caffeine content to a maximum of 20mg./100ml.; 2. Adds the phrase " El consumo con
 alcohol es perjudicial para la salud " 
("Consumption with  alcohol is harmful to health")  to the warnings on packets and 
advertisements; 
3. Provides, with regard to any form of publicity and advertising, that the product should 
not be associated, either directly or indirectly , with the consumption of alcoholic beverages; 
and that it should not be presented as a dri nk that induces health or well-being or be 
associated with ideas or images implying that co nsumers of the drink enjoy greater success 
than non-consumers in certain aspects of thei r lives and the activities they undertake.  The 
message should not feature, in either images or sounds, children or young people under 
18 years of age. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
 This Regulation tightens existing preven tive measures in light of the apparent 
persistence of, and increase in, the harmful effects of new cons umption habits linked to the 
drinks in question.  The national and provincial health authorities, the Secretaría de 
Programación para la Prevención de la Drogadi cción y la Lucha contra el Narcotráfico 
(Secretariat for the Prevention of Drug Addiction and the Campaign against Drug G/TBT/N/ARG/186 
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 Trafficking), the Subsecretaría de Atención a las Adicciones del Ministerio de Salud  
(Under-secretariat for Addiction Issues of the Ministry of Health) of the province of Buenos Aires and consumer associations have agreed  upon the need for immediate action to prevent 
further harm and danger to the health and safety of the population. 
8. Relevant documents:   National Food, Drug and Medical Technology Administration 
(ANMAT) Resolution No. 3634/2005. 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  }29 June 2005 
30 June  2005 
10. Final date for comments:   - 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available, of other body: 
Punto Focal de la República Argentina 
Dirección Nacional de Comercio Interior 
 Avda. J. A. Roca 651, Piso 4, Sector 2 (C1067ABB)  Buenos Aires 
 Tel.: (+54 11) 4349 4067 
 Fax: (+54 11) 4349 4072 
 E-mail: focalotc@mecon.gov.ar 
 Text available at: http://www.punt ofocal.gov.ar/notific_arg.htm