. /.    WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/COL/139 
3 December 2009 
 (09-6189) 
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:  COLOMBIA
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:   Ministerio de la Protección Social  (Ministry of Social Welfare)  
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:  
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):   Poultry 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:   Proyecto de 
Resolución del Ministerio de la Protección Socia l "Por la cual se establece el reglamento 
técnico sobre los requisitos que deben cumplir las plantas especiales de beneficio de aves 
de corral y se dictan otras disposiciones"  (Draft Resolution of the Ministry of Social 
Welfare "establishing the technical regulati ons on requirements for poultry slaughter and 
processing plants and adopti ng other provisions") (32 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   The notified text sets forth the sanitary requirements for poultry 
slaughter and processing plants.  It covers the following:  Purpose;  scope;  definitions;  
sanitary standards;  location and access;  desi gn and construction;  drainage systems;  
ventilation;  lighting;  sanitary installations ;  liquid and solid waste management;  water 
quality;  product handlers and their state of health;  training;  hygienic practices and 
protective measures;  requirements for slaughter and processing plant installations, equipment and tools;  reception and slaughter ar ea;  reception section;  slaughter section;  
scalding and plucking area;  evisceration, cleaning, chilling and packaging area;  
evisceration, carcass-cleaning section;  chilling an d packaging section;  other installations;  
sanitation standard operating procedures (dev elopment, implementation, maintenance, 
corrective actions, records, verification, an d microbiological verification);  sampling 
requirements;  recording of test results;  sampling plan criteria;  microbiological criteria;  sampling requirements;  non-fulfilment of mi crobiological criteria;  physico-chemical 
requirements;  "zero tolerance" faecal matte r control in slaughter and processing plant 
operations;  preliminary sanitary inspection carri ed out on the farm;  preliminary ante and 
post-mortem inspection at the plant;  official inspection of establishments engaged in the slaughter and processing of poultry;  official inspection criteria;  ante-mortem inspection;  ante-mortem inspection at the plant;  condemned/s eized birds;  final results of ante-mortem 
inspection;  post-mortem inspection;  exam inations conducted duri ng post-mortem poultry 
inspection;  post-mortem inspection results and final destination of products;  monitoring G/TBT/N/COL/139 
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  and control;  review and updating;  safety measures and penalty system;  notification and 
period of validity. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
To protect life and health and prevent practices likely to mislead consumers. 
8. Relevant documents:   Decree No. 1500 of 4 May 2007 (notified in 
G/TBT/N/COL/82/Add.1), Decree No. 2380 of 25 June 2009 and Resolution No. 4287 of 21 November 2007 (notified in G/TBT/N/COL/89/Add.1) of the Ministry of Social Welfare. 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  Date on which the Resolution is signed. 
Date of publication in the Official Journal. 
10. Final date for comments:   25 February 2010 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and website addresses,  if available, of other body:  
Enquiry point : 
Contact person:  Daniel Héctor Rico R. E-mail: drico@mincomercio.gov.co 
 Puntocontactotc-msf@mincomercio.gov.co 
Tel.: (+571) 606 7676, Ext. 1690 Fax: (+571) 241 0480  Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo 
Dirección de Regulación 
Calle 28 No. 13A - 15, tercer piso Bogotá, D.C., Colombia Tel.: (+571) 241 0478  The text is available online at:  https://servicios.vuce.gov.co/puntoc/vern.php 
 
Ministerio de la Protección Social Dirección General de Salud Pública Grupo de Promoción y Prevención Carrera 13 No. 32-76 
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia 
Tel.: (+571) 330 5000, Ext. 1428 Fax: (+571) 330 5050 E-mail: bolarte@minproteccionsocial.gov.co Website: http://www.minproteccionsocial.gov.co/