. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/COL/145 
9 April 2010 
 (10-1857) 
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:  COLOMBIA
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:   Ministerio de la Protección Social  (Ministry of Social Welfare)  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and 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:  Ministerio de 
Comercio, Industria y Turismo  (Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism)  
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):   Materials, objects, 
packaging and equipment of plastic or elastomer, whether domestically manufactured or imported, that come into contact with food and alcoholic beverages for human consumption 
and the raw materials found in such food and beverages.  Also, plastic compounds and 
compounds of two or more layers of material. 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:   Proyecto de 
Resolución del Ministerio de la Protección Soc ial "Por medio de la cual se establece el 
reglamento técnico sobre los requisitos san itarios que deben cumplir los materiales, 
objetos, envases y equipamientos plásticos y elastoméricos y sus aditivos, destinados a 
entrar en contacto con alimentos y bebidas alcohólicas para consumo humano"  (Draft 
Resolution of the Ministry of Social Welfare "establishing technical regulations on sanitary 
requirements for plastic or elastomeric materials, objects, packaging and equipment and the additives found therein, that come into cont act with food and alcoholic beverages for 
human consumption") (11 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   The notified text covers the following:  Purpose;  scope;  
definitions;  positive list of authorized s ubstances;  maximum composition and specific 
migration limits;  specific migration limits;  total or global migration limits;  total migration 
limit in plastic or elastomeric materials, objects, packaging and equipment that come into contact with food for infants and children;  an alytical tolerances of total migration limits;  
verification of compliance with total migrati on limits;  maximum permissible levels of 
heavy metals;  colouring matter and pigments;  prohibitions;  restrictions applicable to 
N-nitrosamines, N-nitrosatable substances and aromatic amines in elastomeric materials;  ban on the recycling of post-industrial plastic  materials, industrial plastic waste and 
post-consumption plastic materials;  ban on the re-use of plastic packaging;  total migration 
and specific migrations of repeatedly used pl astic packaging and articles;  establishments 
selling materials, objects, packaging and equipment;  inspection, monitoring and control;  G/TBT/N/COL/145 
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  inspection visits;  conformity assessment;  revi ew and updating;  notif ication;  period of 
validity and derogations. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
To protect human health and prevent pr actices that may mislead consumers. 
8. Relevant documents:  Law No. 09 of 1979;  Article 245 of Law No. 100 of 1993 and 
Article 34(a) of Law No. 1122 of 2007;  European Commission Directives 2002/72/EC of 6 August 2002, 2004/1/EC, 2004/19/EC, 2005/79/EC, 2007/19/EC and 2008/39/EC;  
MERCOSUR Common Market Group (GMC) Resolutions No. 54/97 " Reglamento técnico 
MERCOSUR sobre envases y equipamientos elas toméricos destinados a entrar en contacto 
con alimentos " (MERCOSUR Technical Regulation on elastomeric packaging and 
equipment in contact with food) and No. 28/99 " Reglamento técnico MERCOSUR sobre 
lista positiva para envases y equipamientos el astoméricos en contacto con alimentos " 
(MERCOSUR Technical Regulation setting forth positive lists for elastomeric packaging 
and equipment in contact with food). 
9. Proposed date of adoption:  
Proposed date of entry into force:  Date on which the Resolution is signed. 
Nine months from date of publication in the Official Journal. 
10. Final date for comments:   6 July 2010 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry  point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and website addresses,  if available, of other body:  
Enquiry point : 
Contact person:  Daniel Héctor Rico R. 
E-mail: drico@mincomercio.gov.co  
 Puntocontactotc-msf@mincomercio.gov.co  
Tel.: +(57-1) 606 7676, Ext. 1690 Fax: +(57-1) 606 4777 
Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo 
Dirección de Regulación 
Calle 28 No. 13A – 15, tercer piso Bogotá, D.C., Colombia Tel.: +(57-1) 606 4775 Website:  http://www.vuce.gov.co/
 
Ministerio de la Protección Social 
Dirección General de Salud Pública Grupo de Salud Ambiental Carrera 13 N° 32 – 76 Bogotá, D.C., Colombia 
Tel.:  +(57-1) 330 5000, Ext. 1266 
Fax:  +(57-1) 330 5050 E-mail: bolarte@minproteccionsocial.gov.co
 
Website: http://www.minproteccionsocial.gov.co  
The text is also available online at: http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2010/tbt/COL/10_1417_00_s.pdf