. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/CRI/93 
1 September 2009 
 (09-4074) 
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:   COSTA RICA
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Comercio, Dirección de Mejora 
Regulatoria y Reglamentación Técnica  (Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade, 
Regulatory Improvement and Technical Regulation Directorate) Tel.:  (506) 2235-2700, ext. 264 or (506) 2297-1439 
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:  
TBT Enquiry Point 
Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade, MEIC Apartado Postal 10216-1000, San José 
Tel.:  +(506) 2235-2700, ext. 264 
Fax:  +(506) 2297-1439 E-mail:  crotc@meic.go.cr Website: http:// www.reglatec.go.cr
 
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):   International 
Classification for Standards (ICS) code 67.180.10 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:   RTCR 423:2009, 
Reglamento Técnico para la Miel de Abeja (Costa Rican Technical Regulation (RTCR) 
No. 423:2009 on natural honey) (13 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   The notified Technical Regulation establishes the characteristics 
of and presentation and marketing requirement s to be met by imported or domestically 
produced natural honey for direct consumption. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human health and prevention of practices likely to mislead or deceive the 
consumer.  G/TBT/N/CRI/93 
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  8. Relevant documents:  
- Decreto Ejecutivo (Executive Decree) of the Ministry of the Economy, Industry and 
Trade No. 29660-MEIC, Costa Rican Techni cal Regulation (RTCR) No. 26:2000, 
Metrología, Unidades Legales de Medida (Metrology, Legal Units of Measurement), 
CDU 53.081:003.62; 
- Executive Decree of the Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Trade 
No. 26012-MEIC, Etiquetado de los Alimentos Preenvasados  (Labelling of 
pre-packaged foods), published in Official Journal No. 91 of 14 May 1997; 
- Executive Decree No. 30256-S, Etiquetado Nutricional de los Alimentos Preenvasados , 
(Nutrition labelling of pre-packaged foods), published in Official Journal No. 71 of 
15 April 2002; 
- Executive Decree of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Ministry of the Economy, 
Industry and Trade No. 33371-COMEX-MEIC, Resolution No. 168-2006 (Council of Ministers for Economic Integration (COMIE CO) XLIX), Central American Technical 
Regulation (RTCA) No. 01.01.11:06, Cantidad de Producto en Preempacados  
(Quantity of product in pre-packages). 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
 
Proposed date of entry into force:   Upon publication in the Official Journal, 
La Gaceta 
Six months after publication in the Official 
Journal  
10. Final date for comments:   60 days as from the date of notification 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, E-mail and website addresses,  if available, of other body: 
TBT Enquiry Point 
San José, Costa Rica Tel.:  (+506) 2235-2700, ext. 221 Fax:  (+506) 2297-1439 or (+506) 2236-7192 E-mail: crotc@meic.go.cr
 
Website: http://www.reglatec.go.cr  
 
The full text of the Regulation is available at: http://www.reglatec.go.cr/consulta /miel-de-abeja-11-08-2009.pdf
 
and: http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2009/tbt/cri/09_2967_00_s.pdf