WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/SPS/N/COL/231 
8 November 2011  
 (11-5720) 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:   Spanish 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
1. Notifying Member:  COLOMBIA 
If applicable, name of local government involved:  
2. Agency responsible:  Ministerio de la Protección Social  (Ministry of Social Welfare) 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item numbe r(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO;  ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where 
applicable):  Fishery products 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: 
[ ] All trading partners 
[X] Specific regions or countries:  European Union  
5. Title of the notified document:  Proyecto de Resolución del Ministerio de la Protección 
Social "Por el cual se establece el reglamento técnico sobre los requisitos sanitarios que 
deben cumplir las motonaves o buques dedi cados a la captura,  congelamiento o 
procesamiento de productos de la pesca  y se establece el procedimiento para la 
certificación del sistema HACCP en motonaves o buques pesqueros con destino a la Unión 
Europea  (Draft Ministry of Social Welfare Resolution "Establishing the Technical 
Regulation on the sanitary requirements to be  met by vessels engaged in the harvesting, 
freezing or processing of fishery products and establishing the procedure for obtaining 
HACCP system certification for fishing v essels destined for the European Union). 
Language(s):  Spanish Number of pages:  13 
Text available at: http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2011/sps/COL/11_3748_00_s.pdf
6. Description of content:  The notified draft Resolution covers the following:  Purpose;  
Scope;  Definitions;  Hygiene requirements;  Structural and equipment requirements;  
Principles and implementation of the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) system;  HACCP prerequisites and contents of the HACCP plan;  HACCP plan verification visit;  Procedures for obtaining certification;  Ce rtification of foreign flag vessels;  Period 
of validity of certification;  Cancellation of cer tification;  Registration of vessels;  Updating 
of official lists of authorized vessels;  Cont rol of landing of fish;  Inspection, monitoring 
and control;  Samples for analysis;  Conf ormity assessment;  Review and updating;  
Notification;  and Period of validity. 
7. Objective and rationale:  [X] food safety, [ ] animal health, [ ] plant protection, 
[ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or  disease, [ ] protect territory from other 
damage from pests.  G/SPS/N/COL/231 
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  8. Is there a relevant international stan dard?  If so, identify the standard:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g. title or serial number of Codex standard 
or related text)  
[ ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number)  
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number)  
[X] None 
Does this proposed regulation conform to  the relevant international standard? 
 [ ] Yes [ ] No 
 If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:  
9. Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  Available in 
Spanish 
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) :  Date on which the Resolution is signed 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) :  Date of publication in the Official Journal 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  [X] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) : 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure 
12. Final date for comments:  [ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the notification 
and/or (dd/mm/yy) :  7 February 2012 
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [X] National Notification 
Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point.   Address, fax number and e-mail address 
(if available) of other body:  
Ministerio de la Protección Social 
Dirección General de Salud Pública Carrera 13 N°. 32 - 76 Bogotá, D.C., Colombia Tel.: +(57-1) 330-5000, Ext. 1266 
Fax: +(57-1) 330-5050, Ext. 1280 
E-mail: bolarte@minproteccionsocial.gov.co Website: http://www.minproteccionsocial.gov.co/   G/SPS/N/COL/231 
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  13. Texts available from:  [X] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry 
Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body: 
 
Contact person:  Daniel Héctor Rico R. Tel.: +(57-1) 606-676, Ext. 1690 Fax: +(57-1) 606-4777 E-mail: drico@mincomercio.gov.co 
 Puntocontactotc-msf@mincomercio.gov.co 
Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo Dirección de Regulación Calle 28 Nº 13A - 15, tercer piso Bogotá, D.C., Colombia Tel.: +(57-1) 606 4775