. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/COL/136 
2 October 2009 
 (09-4702) 
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:   Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario , ICA  (Colombian Agricultural 
Institute) 
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 
Comercio, Industria y Turismo  (Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism) 
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):   Animal feed 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:   Proyecto de 
Resolución del Instituto Colombiano Agropec uario - ICA "Por medio de la cual se 
establece los requisitos para el registro de  productos, producción,  semielaboración e 
importación de alimentos para animales y se dictan otras disposiciones" (Draft Resolution 
of the Colombian Agricultural Institute "Lay ing down requirements for the registration of 
products and the production, semi-processing a nd importation of animal feed, and adopting 
other provisions") (19 pages, in Spanish).  
6. Description of content:   Purpose;  Scope;  Definitions;  Registration;  Registrable 
products;  Efficacy testing;  Registration procedures;  Technical visit;  Issue of registration;  Amendments;  Premixtures and mineral salt preparations made to specific formulations;  Research and experimentation;  Obligations;  Prohibitions;  Labelling, Official control;  
References;  Penalties;  and Period of validity. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Protection of animal life and health. 
8. Relevant documents:   Decree ( Decreto ) No. 1840 of 1994, Resolution ( Resolución ) 
No. 1056 of 1997, Resolution No. 1698 of 2000, and Columbian Technical Standard 
(Norma Técnica Colombiana ) NTC-ISO 2859-1:  Procedimientos de muestreo para 
inspección por atributos.  Part 1:  Planes de muestreo determinados por el nivel aceptable 
de calidad - NAC - para inspección lote a lote  (Sampling procedures for inspection by 
attributes.  Part 1:  Sampling schemes indexed by acceptance quality limit (AQL) for lot-by-lot inspection). G/TBT/N/COL/136 
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  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:   24 December 2009 
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. Tel.: +(571) 606-7676, Ext. 1690 
Fax: +(571) 241-0480 
E-mail: drico@mincomercio.gov.co  Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo Dirección de Regulación 
Calle 28 N° 13A - 15, tercer piso 
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia Tel.: +(571) 241-0478  The text is available on the Notification an d Technical Regulation Information System 
(SIRT) website: 
http://secgen.comunidadandina.org/SIRT/register/readnot.aspx?numreg=416