. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/COL/109 
11 March 2008 
 (08-1074) 
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:   Dirección General de Salud Pública del Ministerio de la Protección 
Social  (Department of Public Health, Ministry of Social Welfare) 
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 Trade, Industry and Tourism) 
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [  X ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [  X ], 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):   Tricycles, scooters, 
pedal cars and similar wheeled toys;  dolls' carriages;  dolls, whether or not dressed;  reduced-size ("scale") models and similar recrea tional models, working or not;  puzzles of 
all kinds;  electric trains, including tracks, signals and other accessories;  toys representing 
animals or non-human creatures;  toy musical instruments and apparatus;  motorized toys;  
and balloons of natural rubber latex. 
 
9503001000, 9503002920, 9503003000, 9503004000, 9503009100, 9503009200, 
9503009300, 9503009400, 9503009500, 9503009600, 9503009900, 9503009910, 
9503009990. 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:   Proyecto de 
Resolución del Ministerio de la Protección Soc ial "Por la cual se expide el reglamento 
técnico de sobre los requisitos de ensayo que , deben cumplir los jugetes sus componentes y 
accesorios, que se comerc ialicen en Colombia" (Draft Resolution of the Ministry of Social 
Welfare "issuing the Technical Regulation on testing requirements which toys, their 
components and accessories that are marketed in  Colombia, must meet") (103 pages, in 
Spanish).  
6. Description of content:   Purpose and scope; exceptions;  definitions;  requirements; 
flammability;  electrical properties;  hygiene;  risk;  labelling;  monitoring and inspection 
bodies;  conformity certificates;  supplier's declaration of conformity;  review and updating;  notification;  period of validity and Annexes. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
 Protection of human life, health and safety. G/TBT/N/COL/109 
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  8. Relevant documents:  Paragraphs (a) and (b) of Ar ticle 551 of Law No. 09 of 1979, 
Colombian Technical standards:  NTC EN 71-2  Safety of toys.  Flammability, NTC EN 71-3 Safety of toys.  Migration of certain elem ents, NTC 4894 Safety of toys and Resolution 
No. 3158 of 10 September 2007, notified in document G/TBT/N/COL/99 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force: Date on which the Resolution is signed. 
Six months after the date of publication in the 
Official Journal. 
10. Final date for comments:   6 June 2008 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, E-mail and web site addresses, if available, of other body:  
Contact person:  Daniel Héctor Rico R. 
 E-mail: drico@mincomercio.gov.co
 
Tel.: (+571) 606 7676, Ext. 1690 Fax: (+571) 241 0480 
 
Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo Dirección de Regulación Calle 28 No. 13A-15, tercer piso Bogotá, D.C., Colombia  
Tel.: (+571) 241 0478 
Web site: http://secgen.comunidadandina.org/sirt  Ministerio de la Protección Social Dirección General de Salud Publica 
Carrera 13 No. 32 – 76 
Bogotá, D. C., Colombia 
 
Tel.: (+571) 330 5000, Ext. 1400 to 1445 Fax: (+571) 330 5050  E-mail: jsolano@minproteccionsocial.gov.co
 
Web site: http://www.minproteccionsocial.gov.co