. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/CHL/17
9 May 2001
(01-2387)
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:  CHILE
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:  Ministry of Economy, Mining and Energy
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and E-mail and Web site
addresses, if available) of the agency or  authority designated to handle comments
regarding the notification if different from above:
3.  Notified under Article 2.9.2 [   ], 2.10.1 [  X ], 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):  Kerosene
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Ban on Mixing
Kerosene with Other Fuels and Establishment of Requirements for Kerosene for Domestic
and Industrial Use Stored, Distributed and Marketed in the Metropolitan, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th
Regions, four pages in Spanish.
6. Description of content: . Prohibits the mixing of kerosene for domestic and industrial use
with other liquid fuels for use as fuel in Chile. Also prohibits the mixing of diesel fuel with
other liquid fuels for such purposes. Establishes that kerosene for domestic and industrialuse retailed in the Metropolitan, 5
th, 6th, 7th and 8th regions must contain a fuel marker
enabling it to be identified, and comply with all of the Decree requirements.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
  To control air pollution.
8. Relevant documents:  Exempt Decree No. 174 of 25 April 2001 of the  Ministry of
Economy.
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }Article 1 comes into force on the date of itspublication in the Official Journal. Articles 2
to 8 come into force 30 days after the date of
publication of the last of the Superintendency
of Electricity and Fuels Resolutions referred toin the permanent provisions of Decree 174.
10. Final date for comments:G/TBT/N/CHL/17
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11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax
numbers and E-mail and Web site addresses, if available, of another body:  
Department of Foreign Trade, DECOEX
Ministry of Economy, Mining and Energy
Teatinos 12, piso 11, of. 22Santiago, Chile
Tel.:  56-2 698-8148
Fax:  56-2 697-4905
E-mail:  decoex@minecon.cl