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NOTIFICATION

The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.

1. / Notifying Member: PERU
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):
2. / Agency responsible: Ministerio de Salud (Ministry of Health)
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and email 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 Exterior y Turismo, MINCETUR (Ministry of Foreign Trade 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):
TARIFF ITEM NUMBER / DESCRIPTION
0209 / Pig fat, free of lean meat, and poultry fat, not rendered or otherwise extracted, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked.
0306 / Crustaceans, whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine; smoked crustaceans, whether in shell or not, whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process; crustaceans, in shell, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water, whether or not chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine; flours, meals and pellets of crustaceans, fit for human consumption.
0307 / Molluscs, whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine; smoked molluscs, whether in shell or not, whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process; flours, meals and pellets of molluscs, fit for human consumption.
0401 / Milk and cream, not concentrated nor containing added sugar or other sweetening matter.
0402 / Milk and cream, concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter.
0405 / Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk; dairy spreads.
0406 / Cheese and curd.
0802 / Other nuts, fresh or dried, whether or not shelled or peeled.
1604 / Prepared or preserved fish; caviar and caviar substitutes prepared from fish eggs.
1701 / Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form.
1704 / Sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not containing cocoa.
1806 / Chocolate and other food preparations containing cocoa.
2009 / Fruit juices (including grape must) and vegetable juices, unfermented and not containing added spirit, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter.
2103 / Sauces and preparations therefor; mixed condiments and mixed seasonings; mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard.
040590 / Other fats and oils derived from milk.
160239 / Other prepared or preserved meat, meat offal or blood of poultry of heading 01.05.
0402991000 / Condensed milk.
0402999000 / Other milk and cream, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter.
0403100020 / Yogurt, flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter.
0406909000 / Other cheese.
1517100000 / Margarine, excluding liquid margarine.
1517900000 / Other margarine; edible mixtures or preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or oils of this Chapter, other than edible fats or oils or their fractions of heading 15.16.
1601000000 / Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal or blood; food preparations based on these products.
1602100000 / Homogenised preparations.
1602200000 / Prepared or preserved liver of any animal.
1602321090 / Other prepared or preserved meat, meat offal or blood of fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, seasoned and frozen.
1602500000 / Prepared or preserved meat, meat offal or blood of bovine animals.
1602900000 / Other, including preparations of blood of any animal.
1702200000 / Maple sugar and maple syrup.
1702309000 / Glucose, not containing fructose or containing in the dry state less than 20% by weight of fructose.
1702901000 / Artificial honey, whether or not mixed with natural honey.
1702903000 / Sugars containing added flavouring or colouring matter, containing in the dry state 50% by weight of fructose.
1702904000 / Other syrup containing in the dry state 50% by weight of fructose.
1704101000 / Chewing gum, sugar-coated.
1704901000 / Boiled sweets, pastilles and similar sugar confectionery.
1704909000 / Other sugar confectionery (including white chocolate), not containing cocoa.
1806310000 / Preparations in blocks, slabs or bars, other than those weighing more than 2 kg, or in liquid, paste, powder, granular or other bulk form in containers or immediate packings of a content exceeding 2 kg, filled.
1806320000 / Preparations in blocks, slabs or bars, other than those weighing more than 2 kg, or in liquid, paste, powder, granular or other bulk form in containers or immediate packings of a content exceeding 2 kg, not filled.
1901909000 / Food preparations of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing cocoa or containing less than 40% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included; food preparations of goods of headings 04.01 to 04.04, not containing cocoa or containing less than 5% by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included.
1902200000 / Stuffed pasta, whether or not cooked or otherwise prepared.
1904200000 / Prepared foods obtained from unroasted cereal flakes or from mixtures of unroasted cereal flakes and roasted cereal flakes or swelled cereals.
1904900000 / Cereals (other than maize (corn)) in grain form or in the form of flakes or other worked grains (except flour, groats and meal), pre-cooked, or otherwise prepared, not elsewhere specified or included.
1905100000 / Crispbread (also known as knäckebrot).
1905200000 / Gingerbread and the like.
1905310000 / Sweet biscuits.
1905400000 / Rusks, toasted bread and similar toasted products.
1905901000 / Salted or flavoured biscuits.
1905909000 / Other bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products.
2005200000 / Potatoes, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen.
2005590000 / Other beans (Vigna spp., Phaseolus spp.) prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen.
2005600000 / Asparagus, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen.
2005700000 / Olives, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen.
2005800000 / Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata), prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen.
2005991000 / Artichokes, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen.
2005992000 / Paprika (Capsicum annuum), prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen.
2005999000 / Other vegetables and mixtures of vegetables, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen.
2006000000 / Vegetables, fruit, nuts, fruit-peel and other parts of plants, preserved by sugar (drained, glacé or crystallised).
2007911000 / Jams, fruit jellies and marmalades of citrus fruit, obtained by cooking, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter.
2007991100 / Jams, fruit jellies and marmalades of pineapple, obtained by cooking, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter.
2007999100 / Jams, fruit jellies and marmalades of other fruits or nuts, obtained by cooking, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter.
2103100000 / Soya sauce.
2103200000 / Tomato ketchup and other tomato sauces.
2103302000 / Prepared mustard.
2103901000 / Mayonnaise.
2103902000 / Mixed condiments and mixed seasonings.
2103909000 / Other sauces and preparations therefor.
2104101000 / Preparations for soups and broths.
2104102000 / Soups and broths.
2104200000 / Homogenized composite food preparations.
2105001000 / Ice cream not containing milk or dairy products.
2105009000 / Other ice cream and other edible ice, whether or not containing cocoa.
2106901000 / Powders for table creams, jellies, ice creams, or similar preparations.
2106906000 / Sweetening preparations made using synthetic or artificial substances.
2106907900 / Other food supplements.
2106908000 / Formula, other than milk formula, for infants up to 12 months old.
2202100000 / Waters, including mineral waters and aerated waters, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured.
2202900000 / Other non-alcoholic beverages, not including fruit or vegetable juices of heading 20.09.
5. / Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Manual de advertencias publicitarias del Reglamento de la Ley N°. 30021, Ley de promoción de la alimentación saludable para niños, niñas y adolescentes (Manual on health warnings, prepared pursuant to the Regulations implementing Law No. 30021 on the promotion of healthy eating among children and adolescents) (15 pages, in Spanish)
6. / Description of content: The notified text establishes the technical specifications in respect of health warnings displayed on processed foods or published in the media, in accordance with the Regulations implementing Law No. 30021 on the promotion of healthy eating among children and adolescents, adopted pursuant to Supreme Decree No. 017-2017-SA.
7. / Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: To establish the technical specifications in respect of health warnings displayed on processed foods or published in the media, with a view to protecting human health
8. / Relevant documents: Resolución Ministerial (Ministerial Resolution) No. 683-2017-MINSA, published in the Official Journal El Peruano of 18 August 2017
9. / Proposed date of adoption: To be determined
Proposed date of entry into force: Six months after publication in the Official Journal El Peruano
10. / Final date for comments: 30 November 2017
11. / Texts available from: National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:
Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo, MINCETUR
Calle Uno Oeste Nº 50, Urb. Corpac, Lima 27, Perú
Tel.: (+51-1) 513-6100, Ext. 1223/1239
E-mail:
Website:
http://extranet.comunidadandina.org/sirt/public/index.aspx
http://www.mincetur.gob.pe/reglamentostecnicos
ftp://ftp2.minsa.gob.pe/normaslegales/2017/RM_N%C2%B0_683-2017-MINSA.pdf
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2017/TBT/PER/17_3900_00_s.pdf