./.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/COL/30
13 May 2003
(03-2545)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  Spanish
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated 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:   Ministry of Social Welfare
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and E-mail and Web site
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   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):   Wheat flour and
semolina
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Draft Decree
Establishing the Technical Regulation on the Requirements for Wheat Flour and Semolina
and Adopting Other Provisions  (5 pages, in Spanish).
6. Description of content:   Requirements for domestically produced and imported wheat flour
and semolina marketed in Colombia for direct sale to the consumer or for the production ofbread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, pasta and other food products,
Definitions, Prohibitions, General requirements, Microbiological requirements, Maximum
limit for metal contaminants, Monitoring and inspection, Conformity assessment and
Penalty system.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Protection of human health.
8. Relevant documents:   Decree No. 1944 of 1996 and Resolution No. 1528 of the Ministry
of Health.
9. Proposed date of adoption:  8 August 2003
Proposed date of entry into force:  Upon publication in the Official Journal.
10. Final date for comments:   30 July 2003G/TBT/N/COL/30
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11. Texts available in:  Spanish
from the National enquiry point [  X ],
Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism
Regulation DepartmentCalle 28, No. 13A - 15, 1
st floor
Bogota, D.C., Colombia
E-mail: danielrico@mincomercio.gov.co
COLOMBIA@mincomercio.gov.co (Enquiry point)
Web site: www.mincomercio.gov.co
Tel.: (571) 350-5500, Ext. 713Fax: (571) 350-9564
or address, telephone and fax numbers and E-mail and Web site addresses, if
available, of other body:
Ministry of Social Welfare
General Directorate for Public Health
Carrera 13, No. 32-76Bogota, D.C., Colombia
E-mail: bolarte@minproteccionsocial.gov.co
jsolano@minproteccionsocial.gov.co
Tel.: (571) 336-5066
Fax: (571) 336-0182Web site: www.minsalud.gov.co