. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/PER/37 
27 June 2011 
 (11-3143) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   Spanish 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Notifying Member:   PERU 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:   Presidencia del Consejo de Ministros  (Presidency of the Council of 
Ministers) 
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:   Ministerio de 
Comercio Exterior y Turismo, MINCETUR  (Ministry of Foreign Trade 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):  
1108.12.00.00: Maize (corn) starch. 
1201.00.90.00: Soya beans, whether or not broken, other than for sowing. 
1205.10.90.00: Low erucic acid rape or colza seeds, other than for sowing. 1205.90.90.00: Rape or colza seeds, whether or not broken, other than for sowing. 
1207.20.90.00: Cotton seeds, whether or not broken, other than for sowing. 
1208.10.00.00: Flours and meals of soya beans. 
1209.10.00.00: Sugar beet seed. 
1212.91.00.00: Sugar beet. 1214.90.00.00: Swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, hay, clover, sainfoin, forage kale, 
lupines, vetches and similar forage products, whether or not in the form 
of pellets. 
1302.19.20.00: Soya-bean extract, whether or not in powder. 
1507.10.00.00: Crude soya-bean oil, whether or not degummed. 
1507.90.10.00: Refined soya-bean oil, cont aining added denaturalizing substances not 
exceeding 1 per cent. 
1507.90.90.00: Soya-bean oil, refined, ot her than containing added denaturalizing 
substances not exceeding 1 per cent. 
1512.21.00.00: Crude cotton-seed oil, whethe r or not gossypol has been removed. 
1512.29.00.00: Other cotton-seed oil, other than  crude, whether or not gossypol has been 
removed. 
1514.11.00.00: Low erucic acid rape or colza oil, crude. 1514.19.00.00: Other low erucic acid rape or colza oil, other than crude. 
1515.21.00.00: Maize (corn) oil, crude. 
1515.29.00.00: Maize (corn) oil, other than crude. 1701.12.00.00: Raw beet sugar not containing added flavouring or colouring matter. G/TBT/N/PER/37 
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  1701.91.00.00: Refined cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form, 
containing added flavouring or colouring matter. 
1701.99.90.00: Other cane or beet sugar, in solid form. 
2005.80.00.00: Sweet corn ( Zea mays var. saccharata ) prepared or preserved otherwise 
than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen. 
2103.10.00.00: Soya sauce. 2106.10.11.00: Soya protein concentrate, containing 65 per cent to 75 per cent protein on 
a dry basis. 
3203.00.16.00: Colouring matter of purple maize/corn (anthocyanin). 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Proyecto de "Decreto 
Supremo que aprueba el Reglamento sobre Etiquetado de Alimentos Genéticamente 
Modificados" (Draft Supreme Decree approving the re gulations governing the labelling of 
genetically modified foods) (7 pages, in Spanish) 
6. Description of content:   The aim of the notified regulations is to establish the rules 
governing the labelling of packaged geneti cally modified foods, both domestic and 
imported, available to the consumer at points of final sale in the national territory, pursuant 
to Article 37 of Law No. 29571, the Co nsumer Protection and Defence Code. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Prevention of practices liable to mislead consumers. 
8. Relevant documents:   Ley Nº 29571, Código de Protecci ón y Defensa del Consumidor  
(Law No. 29571:  Consumer Protection and Defence Code) 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:   To be determined 
Six months after publication in the Official 
Journal El Peruano  
10. Final date for comments:   15 September 2011 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry  point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and website addresses,  if available of the other body: 
Websites: http://www.comunidadandina.org/SIRT  
 http://www.mincetur.gob.pe/reglamentostecnicos  
 http://www.pcm.gob.pe/InformacionGral/ga/proyecto.html  
Text available at: 
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2011/tbt/PER/11_1947_00_s.pdf  
 
Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo, MINCETUR Calle Uno Oeste Nº 50, Urb. Corpac Lima 27, Perú Tel.: +(51-1) 513-6100, Ext. 8040 
Fax: +(51-1) 513-6100, Ext. 8002 
E-mail: otc@mincetur.gob.pe