. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/GTM/31 
26 May 2005 
 (05-2150) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   Spanish 
 
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  GUATEMALA  
If applicable, name of local government involved:   
2. Agency responsible:  Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food  
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where 
applicable):  Rules and requirements for the use of agricultural inputs  
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: 
 Trading partners of Guatemala  
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:  Ministerial Decision 
No. 1221-2004.  Rules for the registration of natural and legal persons involved in activities 
related to inputs for agricultural use, and re quirements for the registration of agricultural 
inputs with the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food (12 pages).  
6. Description of content:  The Decision sets forth the regist ration and regist ration renewal 
requirements for natural and legal persons th at import, export, produce, manufacture, 
formulate, process, fill, refill, pack, repack, distribute and sell agricultural inputs, and for 
the authorization of import, export and return of inputs.  It establishes the requirements for the registration and importation of agricultura l inputs, for experimental and commercial 
purposes (specific requirements for the registra tion of technical grade active ingredients, 
and the formulation of pesticides;  for formulated chemical and microbial pesticides, and 
pesticides against arthropods, predators, parasite s and parasitoids;  for related formulated 
substances;  for the registration of raw materi als to formulate pesticides), changes in the 
registration of agricultural inputs, requirements for the importation of agricultural inputs, requirements for agricultural inputs for export,  and matters related to equivalence of 
chemical pesticides for agricultural use. 
7. Objective and rationale: [  X ] food safety,  [  ] animal health,  [    ] plant protection, 
[ X ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [    ] protect territory from 
other damage from pests 
8. International standard, guideline or recommendation: 
[  ] Codex Alimentarius Commission,  [  ] World Organization for Animal Health 
(OIE), [   ] International Plant Protection Convention,  [ X ] None If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate 
reference and briefly identify deviations:   G/SPS/N/GTM/31 
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 9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available: Ministerial Decision 
No. 1221-2004 of 28 May 2004 (available in Spanish).  
10. Proposed date of adoption:  Guatemala, 28 May 2004 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  Guatemala, 29 May 2004 
12. Final date for comments:  Not applicable 
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [  X ] National notification 
authority, [  X] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if 
available) of other body:   
Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Alim entación, Unidad de Políticas e Información 
Estratégica, Área de Información, 5ª. Avenida 8-06 zona 9, ciudad de Guatemala. 
Tel:  (502) 2361-7786, 2334-1048;  Fax:  (502) 2361-7783;   
E-mail:   informacion.upie@maga.gob.gt  
 Enquiry point:
 
Contact person :  Ing. Agr. Gustavo Adolfo Hernández Arreaga 
E-mail:  ghernandez@maga.gob.gt  
13. Texts available from:  [  X ] National notification authority, [  X ] National enquiry 
point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:   
Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Alim entación, Unidad de Políticas e Información 
Estratégica, Área de Información, 5ª Aven ida 8-06 zona 9, ciudad de Guatemala.  
Tel:  (502) 2361-7786, 2334-1048;  Fax:  (502) 2361-7783;   E-mail:  informacion.upie@maga.gob.gt
 
 
Enquiry point:  
Contact person:   Ing. Agr. Gustavo Adolfo Hernández Arreaga 
E-mail:  ghernandez@maga.gob.gt  
 Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Alim entación, Unidad de Normas y Regulaciones, 
Oficina de Normas y Procedimientos, 7ª. Av enida 12-90 zona 13, Anexo Edificio Monja 
Blanca.  Fax:  (502) 24753058, 2457-3068, 2475-3074;  E-mail:  correo@unr.gob.gt