WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/COL/179 
30 September 2009 
 (09-4594) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   Spanish 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
1. Notifying Member:  COLOMBIA
 
If applicable, name of local government involved:  
2. Agency responsible:  Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario , ICA  (Colombian Agricultural 
Institute) 
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):  Animal feed 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: 
[X] All trading partners 
[ ] Specific regions or countries:  
5. Title of the notified document:  Proyecto de Resolución del Instituto Colombiano 
Agropecuario - ICA "Por medio de la cual  se establece los requisitos para el registro de 
productos, producción, semielaboración e impor tación de alimentos para animales y se 
dictan otras disposiciones" (Draft Resolution of the Colo mbian Agricultural Institute 
"Laying down requirements for the regist ration of products and the production, 
semi-processing and importation of animal  feed, and adopting other provisions") 
Language:  Spanish Number of pages:  19  
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:  [ X] food safety, [ X] animal health, [ ] plant protection, 
[ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or  disease, [ ] protect territory from other 
damage from pests.  
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)  G/SPS/N/COL/179 
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  [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:  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 lim it (AQL) for lot-by-lot inspection). 
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:  [ ] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) :  As from the date of publication in the Official Journal 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure 
12. Final date for comments:  [ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the notification 
and/or (dd/mm/yy) :  24 December 2009 
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: 
National Enquiry Point 
Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo Dirección de Regulación Calle 28 N° 13A - 15, tercer piso Bogotá, D.C., Colombia Tel.: +(571) 241-0478 
Fax: +(571) 241-0480 
or Instituto Colombiano Agropecuario - ICA 
Subgerencia de Regulación Sanitaria y Fitosanitaria Dirección Técnica de Asuntos Internacionales 
Calle 37 # 8-43, Piso 4, Oficina 411 
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia Tel.: +(571) 287-2728 Fax: +(571) 285-3485 Website: http://www.ica.gov.co
  G/SPS/N/COL/179 
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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:  
Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo 
Dirección de Regulación Calle 28 N° 13A - 15, tercer piso 
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia 
 Enquiry Point
: 
Contact person:  Daniel Héctor Rico R. 
Tel.: +(571) 606-7676, Ext. 1690 
Fax: +(571) 241-0480 
E-mail: drico@mincomercio.gov.co  
The text is available on the Notification and Technical Regulation Information System 
(SIRT) website: 
http://secgen.comunidadandina.org/SIRT/register/readnot.aspx?numreg=416