. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/ARG/263 
19 July  2011 
 (11-3598) 
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:   ARGENTINA 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:   Servicio Nacional de Sanidad y Calidad Agroalimentaria , SENASA 
(National Agriculture and Food Quality and Health Service) 
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:  
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):   Technical grade active 
ingredients (technical material, TC, and/or tec hnical concentrate, TK) and their formulated 
products 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Proyecto de 
Resolución complementaria a la Resolución SAGPyA Nº 350/99 "Manual de 
Procedimientos, Criterios y Alcances para el Registro de Productos Fitosanitarios en la 
República Argentina" (Draft Resolution complementary to Secretariat of Agriculture, 
Livestock, Fisheries and Food (SAGPyA) Resolution No. 350/99:  "Manual establishing the procedures, criteria and scope for the registration of phytosanitary products in the Argentine Republic") (15 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   Requirements and procedures a pplicable to natural or legal 
persons who own a registered product (a t echnical material, TC, and/or a technical 
concentrate, TK) for which they wish to regist er additional places of origin in the National 
Plant Therapeutics Register or incorporate an  active ingredient place of origin and/or a 
manufacturing plant, or who wish to register a new formulated product with several places 
of origin for a specific active ingredient and/or several manufacturing plants. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human health and the environment 
8. Relevant documents:  
- Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock,  Fisheries and Food (SAGPyA) Resolution 
No. 350/99  (available at http://www.infoleg.gov.ar/infole gInternet/verNorma.do?id=59812 ); 
-  Draft Resolution complementary to SAGPyA Resolution No. 350/99 (Point 11). G/TBT/N/ARG/263 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:   Date of publication in the Official Journal 
Day after publication in the Official Journal 
10. Final date for comments:   Sixty days from the date of circulation of the notification. 
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: 
Punto Focal OTC-OMC de la República Argentina 
Dirección Nacional de Comercio Interior 
Avda. Julio. A. Roca 651, Piso 4°, Sector 2 (C1067ABB) 
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires Tel.: 54 11 4349-4067 Fax: 54 11 4349-4072 E-mail: focalotc@mecon.gov.ar  
Text available at: 
http://www.puntofocal.gov.ar/fo rmularios/notific_arg.php 
http://www.puntofocal.gov.ar/formularios/ultimas_notif.php  and 
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2011/tbt/ARG/11_2225_00_s.pdf 
Note:  This draft Resolution has also been notified under the Agreement on the Application 
of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures.