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26 May 2021 
(21-4366) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
1. Notifying Member : PERU 
If applicable, name of local government involved:  
2. Agency responsible : Organismo Nacional de Sanidad Pesquera, SANIPES (National 
Fisheries Health Service)  
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national 
schedules deposited with the WTO ; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, 
where applicable) : Hydrobiological resources and products and feed used in 
aquaculture  
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 Decreto Supremo que aprueba la Norma 
sanitaria que establece criterios sanitarios para los recursos  y productos hidrobiológicos 
y piensos de uso en acuicultura  (Draft Supreme Decree approving the sanitary standard 
establishing sanitary criteria for hydrobiological resources and products and feed used in 
aquaculture) Language(s) : Spanish Number of pages : 80 
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2021/SPS/PER/21_3654_00_s.pdf  
6. Description of content : The notified draft text establishes the sanitary criteria 
applicable during the production, processing, marketing and importation of 
hydrobiological resources and products and feed used in aquaculture.  
7. Objective and rationale : [ ] food safety, [X] animal health, [ ] plant protection, 
[ ] protect huma ns from animal/plant pest or disease, [ ] protect territory from 
other damage from pests.  
8. Is there a relevant international standard ? If so, identify the standard:  
[X] Codex Alimentarius Commission ( e.g. title or serial number of Codex 
standard or rela ted text ): 
− Codex Alimentarius maximum residue limits (MRLs) and extraneous 
maximum residue limits (EMRLs) . 
− Codex Standard CX/ MRL 2 -2018, Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) . 
− CODEX S TAN 193 -1995, General Standard for Contaminants and Toxins in 
Food and Feed . 
− CODEX S TAN 192 -1995, General Standard for Food Additives . 
− CODEX S TAN 329 -2017, Standard for Fish Oils . 
− CAC/GL 21 -1997, Codex Alimentarius . 
− CAC/RCP 52 -2003, Code of Practice for Fish and Fishery Products . 
− CODEX S TAN 165 -1989, Standard for Quick Frozen Block s of Fish Fillet, 
Minced Fish Flesh and Mixtures of Fillets and Minced Fish Flesh . G/SPS/N/PER/928  
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  − CODEX S TAN 190 -1995, Standard for Quick Frozen Fish Fillets . 
− CODEX S TAN 236 -2003, Standard for Boiled, Dried, Salted Anchovies . 
− CXS 323 R-2017, Regional Standard for Laver Pr oducts . 
− CODEX S TAN 167 -1989, Standard for Salted Fish and Dried Salted Fish of the 
Gadidae Family of Fishes . 
− CAC/GL 31 -1999, Codex Guidelines for the Sensory Evaluation of Fish and 
Shellfish in Laboratories . 
− CAC/GL 50 -2004, Codex Alimentarius General Guide lines on Sampling . 
[ ] World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. T errestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number) : 
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. I SPM No.) : 
[ ] None  
Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?  
[X] 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:  
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : To be determined  
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) : To be determined  
11. Proposed date of entry into force : [X] Six months from date of publication, 
and/or ( dd/mm/yy ): 180 calendar days after approval and publication in the Official 
Journal, El Peruano  
[ ] Trade facilitating measure  
12. Final date for comments : [ ]  Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : 16 July 2 021 
Agency or authority designated to handle comments : [X] National Notification 
Authority, [X]  National Enquiry Point Address, fax number and email address (if 
available) of other body:  
Mercedes Govea Requena  
Directora de la Dirección Sanitaria y de Normatividad Pesque ra y Acuícola  (Director of the 
Directorate of Fisheries and Aquaculture Health and Regulation)  
Av. Domingo Orué N°165, Lima 34, Peru  
Tel.: (+511) 2138570 (Ext. 7042)  
Email : mercedes.govea@sanipes.gob.pe  
Normativa.dsnpa@sanipes.gob.pe  
13. Text(s) available from : [X] National Notification Authority, [X]  National Enquiry 
Point Address, fax number and email address (if available) of other body:  
Mercedes Govea Requena  
Directora de la Dirección Sanitaria y de Normatividad Pesquera y Acuícola  
Av. Domingo Orué N°165, Lima 34, Peru  
Tel.: (+511) 2138570 (Ext. 7042)  
Email : mercedes.govea@sanipes.gob.pe  
Normativa.dsnpa@sanipes.gob.pe  
 