. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/CHL/191 
28 February 2012 
 (12-1141) 
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:   CHILE 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   Ministerio de Transporte y Telecomunicaciones  (Ministry of 
Transport and Telecommunications) 
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:   Ministerio de 
Relaciones Exteriores  (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) 
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):   Motor vehicles of a 
gross vehicle weight of less than 3,860 kg,  except for cab-over-engine vans and light 
trucks. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Proyecto de 
reglamento de dispositivos de protección contra su utilización no autorizada, 
inmovilizador, establecidas por el D.S Nº 54  de 1997 del Ministerio de Transporte y 
Telecomunicaciones (Draft regulation on devices to protect against unauthorized use 
(immobilizers), as established by Supreme De cree No. 54 of 1997 of the Ministry of 
Transport and Telecommunications) (2 pages, in Spanish). 
6. Description of content:   The notified draft text proposes that any vehicles approved after 
1 July 2012 and for which first-time entry in the National Register of Motor Vehicles is 
sought after that date, be equipped with de vices protecting against unauthorized use which 
comply with Part IV of Regulation No. 116 of the United Nations Economic Commission 
for Europe (UNECE). 
The above-mentioned requirement will also be mandatory for vehicles for which first-time 
entry in the National Register of Motor Vehicles is sought as of 1 January 2013. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Consumer protection. 
8. Relevant documents:   Proyecto de reglamento de dis positivos de protección contra su 
utilización no autoriz ada, inmovilizador (Draft regulation on devices to protect against 
unauthorized use (immobilizers)). G/TBT/N/CHL/191 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  }The corresponding decree will be issued once 
the time required for analysing comments has 
elapsed. 
10. Final date for comments:   27 April 2012 
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: 
Departamento de Acceso a Mercados 
Dirección General de Relacion es Económicas Internacionales 
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores Teatinos 180, piso 11 Tel.: (+56) 2-8275491 Fax: (+56) 2-3809494 E-mail: mailto:tbt_chile@direcon.cl  
Text available at: 
http://www.reglamentostecnicos.cl/OtroDocumento/Contenido/102 
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2012/tbt/CHL/12_0726_00_s.pdf