. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/BRA/415 
14 January 2011  
 (11-0251) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  BRAZIL
  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  Brazilian Sanitary Surveillance Agency - ANVISA 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above :   
National Institute of Metrology, Standa rdization and Industrial Quality-INMETRO 
Telephone:  +(55) 21 2563.2821 Telefax:  +(55) 21 2502.6542 E-mail:  barreirastecnicas@inmetro.gov.br
 
Website:  http://www.inmetro.gov.br/barreirastecnicas  
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):  Food packaging 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Resolution 
nº 114, 17 December 2010 - Food packaging. (42 pages, Portuguese) 
6. Description of content:  This Technical Regulation establishes the positive list of monomers, 
other starting substances and pol ymers allowed for the manufactu re of plastic packaging and 
equipment  that get into contact with food. It establishes the use restri ctions, the limits of 
composition and specific migrations. It also applie s to polymer coatings in direct contact with 
food, applied on substrat es of other material.  
This draft Technical Re gulation revokes Annex II and Anne x VIII of Anvisa's Resolution 
RDC  n. 105, 19 May 1999, Resolution n. 124, 19 June 2001 and Resolution RDC n. 178, 17 October 2001.  
It will be granted a period of 180 (one hundred and eighty) days from the date of entry into 
force of this Resolution for companies to prom ote the necessary adjustments to comply with 
this Technical Regulation.  
This technical regulation ha s been harmonized in Mercosur – Draft Resolution GMC 
nº 02/2010 (SGT nº 3 - Technical Regulations/Food Comission/Mercosur).  It is an update of 
Resolutions GMC nº 47/93, 86/93, 13/97, 14/97, 24/04.  G/TBT/N/BRA/415 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of Human Health  
8. Relevant documents:   (1) Brazilian Official Journal (Diário Oficial da União), 22 December 
2010; Section 1; (2) Draft Re solution (Consulta Pública) number 114, 22 December 2010, 
issued by Brazilian Sanitary  Surveillance Agency - Anvisa ; (3) When adopted, it will be 
published at  the  Brazilian Official Journal; (4) Not stated.   
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
 
Proposed date of entry into force:    To be determined after the end of the 
consultation period.  
On the date of adoption 
10. Final date for comments:  22 February 2011 
11. Text available from: National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax numbers, 
e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:    
National enquiry point 
Agency responsible Brazilian Sanitary Surveillance Agency – ANVISA SIA, Trecho 5, Área Especial 57 Brasília - DF / Brazil 
CEP:  71.205-050 
Phone.:  55 61 3462-5402 E-mail:  rel@anvisa.gov.br
  
Website:  http://www.anvisa.gov.br  
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