. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/ARG/202 
27 September 2006 
 (06-4595) 
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:   Comisión Nacional de Alimentos  (National Food Commission) 
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:         
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):   Food products 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Código Alimentario 
Argentino – Capítulo V “Normas para la Rotulación y Publicidad de los Alimentos”  
(Argentine Food Code - Chapter V:  Food labelli ng and advertising regula tions) (3 pages, in 
Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   The notified draft Resolution proposes incorporating the following 
text into Article 223 (Reserved) of Chapte r V "Food labelling and a dvertising regulations" 
of the Argentine Food Code:  "The labels of food products (food, additives, raw materials, 
beverages) authorized under the Argentine Food Code shall display, in a prominent position 
and in figures of not less than one millimetre in  size, the National Register of Food Products 
number or the National Agriculture and Food Quality and Health Service (SENASA) 
Register of Food Products number issued by the competent authority upon registration of 
the product and indicated on the certificate corresponding to its authorization". 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
 Ensure product identification on the ma rket, thereby helping to strengthen the 
national food control system, enabling improve d and more efficient control and sanitary 
surveillance of food products, and guaranteeing greater health protection for the population. 
8. Relevant documents:   Proyecto de Resolución Conjunta SPRRS y SAGPA  (Draft Joint 
Resolution of the Secretariat of Health Policy,  Regulation and Relations and the Secretariat 
of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and F ood) No. ... , File No. 1-0047-2110-5919-06-1. G/TBT/N/ARG/202 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   Not indicated. 
The day following publication in the Official 
Journal. 
10. Final date for comments:   18 November 2006 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:   
Punto Focal de la Republica 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