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1 September  2022 
(23-5868) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication, dated 1  September  2023, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of Ecuador . 
 
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Title: Partial Amendment to the Substitute Technical Regulation to authorize the exceptional 
importation and importation for the purposes of donation of medicines, biological products, medical 
devices and biochemical and diagnostic reagents  
 
Reason for Addendum:  
[ ] Comment period changed - date:  
[ ] Notified measure adopted - date:  
[ ] Notified measure published - date:  
[X] Notified measure enters into force - date: 15 September  2023 
[X] Text of final measure available from1: 
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2023/TBT/ECU/final_measure/23_12125_0
0_s.pdf  
[ ] Notified measure withdr awn or revoked - date:  
Relevant symbol if measure re -notified:  
[ ] Content or scope of notified measure changed and text available from1: 
New deadline for comments (if applicable):  
[ ] Interpretive guidance issued and text available from1: 
[ ] Other:  
 
Description : Partial Amendment to the Substitute Technical Regulation to authorize the exceptional 
importation and importation for the purposes of donation of medicines, biological products, medical 
devices and biochemical and diagnostic reagents  
 
1 This information can be provided by including a website address, a PDF attachment, or other 
information on where the text of the final measure/change to the measure/interpretative guidance can be 
obtained.  G/TBT/N/ECU/509/Add.1  
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  By means of this Addendum, the Republic of Ecuador advises that the Partial Amendment to the 
Substitute Technical Regulation to authorize the exceptional importation and importation for the 
purposes of donation of medicines, biological products, m edical devices and biochemical and 
diagnostic reagents"  has been issued pursuant to Resolution No. A RCSA -DE-2023-025-AKRG of 16  
August  2023 by the National Agency for Sanitary Regulation, Control and Surveillance (ARCSA, 
Doctor Leopoldo Izquieta Pérez) . The notified Regulation will enter into force on the date of its 
publication in the Official Journal.  
Text available from : Ministerio de Producción, Comercio Exterior, Inversiones y Pesca  (Ministry of 
Production, Foreign Trade, Investment and Fisheries), Subsecretaría de Calidad  (Under -Secretariat 
for Quality), Organismo Nacional de Notificación  (National Notification Authority):  
TBT enquiry point : Jeannette Mariño  
Plataforma Gubernamental de Gestión Financiera - Piso 8 Bloque amarillo Av . Amazonas entre Unió n 
Nacional de Periodistas y Alfonso Pereira  
Quito, Ecuador  
Tel.: (+593 -2) 3948760, Ext. 2252/2254  
Email:  
Puntocontacto -OTCECU@produccion.gob.ec  
PuntocontactoOTCECU@gmail.com  
jmarino@produccion.gob.ec  
cyepez@produccion.gob.ec  
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