. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/PRY/59 
21 May 2012 
 (12-2671) 
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:   PARAGUAY 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  
Ministerio de Salud Pública y Bienestar Social , MSPyBS (Ministry of Public Health and 
Social Welfare) Instituto Nacional de Alimentación y Nutrición , INAN (National Food and Nutrition 
Institute) 
Ministerio de Industria y Comercio , MIC (Ministry of Industry and Trade) 
Instituto Nacional de Tecnología, Normalización y Metrología , INTN (National Institute of 
Technology, Standardization and Metrology) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and 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:  
Centro de Referencia de la OMC  (WTO Reference Centre) 
Dirección de Organismos Económicos Multilaterales 
(Directorate of Multilateral Economic Organizations) 
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores  (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) 
Palma casi 15 de Agosto Nº 594 
Asunción, Paraguay Tel.: (+595) 21 493 657 E-mail: 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):   Positive list of 
monomers, other starting substances and polymer s authorized for the manufacture of plastic 
packaging and equipment that comes into contact with food. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Resolución GMC 
Nº 02/12:  Reglamento Técnico MERCOSUR  sobre lista positiva de monómeros, otras 
sustancias de partida y polímeros autoriz ados para la elaboración de envases y 
equipamientos plásticos en  contacto con alimentos  (Common Market Group Resolution 
No. 02/12:  MERCOSUR Technical Regulation on the positive list of monomers, other 
starting substances and polymers authorized for the manufacture of plastic packaging and 
equipment that comes into contact with food) (6 pages, in Spanish) G/TBT/N/PRY/59 
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  6. Description of content:   The notified Technical Regulation contains a list of monomers, 
other starting substances and polymers authorized  for the manufacture of plastic packaging 
and equipment that comes into contact with food, as well as usage restrictions, composition 
limits and specific migration limits.  It also a pplies to polymer coatings that come into 
direct contact with food when app lied to substrates of other material. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of human health 
8. Relevant documents:   Decreto Nº 17057/97 Por el cual se dispone la vigencia en la 
República del Paraguay de las Resolucion es adoptadas por el Grupo Mercado Común del 
MERCOSUR, referentes a Reglamentos Técnicos  (Decree No. 17057/97 establishing the 
validity in the Republic of Paraguay of the Resolutions adopted by the MERCOSUR 
Common Market Group in respect of Technical Regulations) 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  } Before 1 November 2012 
10. Final date for comments:   The Paraguayan authorities will respond to requests for 
documents and receive any relevant comment s in the 60 days following notification. 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry  point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and e-mail and website addresses, if available, of other body: 
Unidad de Coordinación del SNIN 
Ministerio de Industria y Comercio (MIC) Avda. Mariscal F. López 3333 
Asunción, Paraguay 
Tel.: (+595) 21 616 3284 Fax: (+595) 21 616 3084 E-mail: snin@mic.gov.py 
 
Text also available at:  
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2012/tbt/PRY/12_1819_00_s.pdf