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G/SPS/N/COL/233 
3 April 2012 
 (12-1719) 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:   Spanish 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
1. Notifying Member:  COLOMBIA 
If applicable, name of local government involved:  
2. Agency responsible:  Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social  (Ministry of Health and 
Social Welfare) 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item numbe r(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO;  ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where 
applicable):  Infant food 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: 
[X] All trading partners 
[ ] Specific regions or countries: 
5. Title of the notified document:  Proyecto de Resolución del Ministerio de Salud y 
Protección Social "Por la cual se establece el Re glamento Técnico sobre los requisitos que 
deben cumplir los alimentos infantiles nacional es e importados que se co mercialicen en el 
territorio nacional para consumo humano y se dictan otras disposiciones"  (Draft Ministry 
of Health and Social Welfare Resolution "E stablishing the Technical Regulation on the 
requirements to be met by domestically prod uced and imported infant food marketed in 
Colombia for human consumption and issuing other provisions") Language(s):  Spanish 
Number of pages:  46 
Text available at: 
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2012/sps/COL/12_1146_00_s.pdf 
6. Description of content:  The notified draft Resolution covers the following:  Purpose;  
Scope;  Definitions;  Prohibitions;  Contaminants and additives;  Infant food classification;  
Specific prohibition;  General requirements;  Essential composition and quality factors;  
Food additives;  Microbiological requirements;   Packaging requirements;  Labelling;  
Inspection, monitoring, control and penalties;   Review and updating;  Notification and 
period of validity. 
7. Objective and rationale:  [X] food safety, [ ] animal health, [ ] plant protection, 
[ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or  disease, [ ] protect territory from other 
damage from pests.  G/SPS/N/COL/233 
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  8. Is there a relevant international stan dard?  If so, identify the standard:  
[X] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g. title or serial number of Codex standard 
or related text) Advisory Lists of Mineral Salts and Vitamin Compounds for Use in 
Foods for Infants and Children (CAC/GL 10-1979) 
[ ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number)  
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number)  
[ ] None 
Does this proposed regulation conform to  the relevant international standard? 
 [ ] Yes [ ] No 
 If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:  
9. Other relevant documents and language (s) in which these are available:  Law No. 09 
of 24 January 1979;  Law No. 1122 of 2007;  Decree No. 3075 of 23 December 1997;  Decree No. 1397 of 24 August 1992;  and Minist ry of Social Welfare Resolutions No. 5109 
of 29 December 2005, No. 2606 of 27 July 2009 and No. 333 of 10 February 2011, as 
notified in documents G/SPS/N/COL/102/ Add.1, G/SPS/N/COL/146/Add.2 and 
G/SPS/N/COL/124/Add.5 respectively. 
Codex Alimentarius texts:  General Principles for Establishing Minimum and Maximum 
Values for the Essential Composition of Infant Fo rmula;  Advisory Lists of Mineral Salts 
and Vitamin Compounds for Use in Foods fo r Infants and Children (CAC/GL 10-1979);  
Codex General Standard for Food Additives.  Al so relevant is the International Code of 
Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes. 
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) :  Date on which the Resolution is signed. 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) :  Date of publication in the Official Journal. 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  [X] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) :  18 months from date of publication in the Official Journal. 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure 
12. Final date for comments:  [ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the notification 
and/or (dd/mm/yy) :  26 June 2012 
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [X] National Notification 
Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point.   Address, fax number and e-mail address 
(if available) of other body: 
Ministerio de Salud y Protección Social 
Dirección de Promoción y Prevención 
Carrera 13 N° 32-76 Bogotá, D.C., Colombia Tel.: (+57) 1 330 5000, Ext. 1266 Fax: (+57) 1 330 5050, Ext. 1280 E-mail: bolarte@minproteccionsocial.gov.co 
Website: http://www.minproteccionsocial.gov.co/   G/SPS/N/COL/233 
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  13. Texts available from:  [X] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry 
Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body: 
Contact person:  Daniel Héctor Rico R. 
Tel.: (+57) 1 606 7676, Ext. 1690 Fax: (+57) 1 606 4777 E-mail: drico@mincomercio.gov.co  Puntocontactotc-msf@mincomercio.gov.co  
 
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