. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/PRY/33 
25 March 2011 
 (11-1473) 
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:   PARAGUAY
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:   Ministerio de Salud Pública y Bienestar Social - Instituto Nacional 
de Alimentación y Nutrición, INAN  (Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare - 
National Food and Nutrition Institute) 
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 Relaciones Exteriores  (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) 
Centro de Referencia de la OMC  (WTO Reference Centre) 
Dirección de Organismos Económicos Multilaterales 
(Directorate of Multilateral Economic Organizations) 
Palma casi 15 de Agosto Nº 594 Asunción, Paraguay 
Tel.: +(595) 21-493 657 
E-mail: mailto:snin@mre.gov.py
 
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):   MERCOSUR Technical 
Regulation on Supplementary Nutrition Information (Nutrition Claims) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Proyecto de 
Resolución GMC "Reglamento Técnico MERC OSUR sobre Información Nutricional 
Complementaria (Declaraciones de Propiedades Nutricionales)"  Draft MERCOSUR 
Common Market Group Resolution "MERCOSUR Technical Regulation on Supplementary 
Nutrition Information (Nutrition Claims)" (17 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   The information provided in nutrition claims will complement the 
health strategies and policies of States parties to  the benefit of consumer health.  It will also 
enhance consumers' knowledge of  the nutritional properties of products, thus helping them 
to make appropriate food choices through in formation that is easily understood.  
Furthermore, requirements must be laid dow n to regulate the supplementary nutritional 
information on labels, in the media and in  any message conveyed orally or in writing 
concerning food that is marketed  ready for sale to consumers, so as to avert information G/TBT/N/PRY/33 
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   that is false or that may mislead or confuse th em.  There must also be a clear definition of 
the supplementary nutritional information that  may be given on packaged foods marketed 
in MERCOSUR, the aim being to facilitate th e free movement of such food, to benefit 
consumers and to avert technical barriers to trade.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
Consumer protection 
8. Relevant documents:   - 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  } - 
10. Final date for comments:   60 days following 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: 
Unidad de Coordinación del SNIN del Ministerio de Industria y Comercio, MIC  
(Coordination Unit of the National Information a nd Notification System of the Ministry of 
Industry and Trade) Avda. Mariscal F. López 3333 Asunción, Paraguay Tel.: +(595) 21 616-3284 
Fax: +(595) 21 616-3084 
E-mail: mailto:aromero@mic.gov.py
, mailto:snin@mic.gov.py