. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/COL/13
21 January 2002
(02-0278)
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 Economic Development
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:
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):  73.23.93.00.00,
76.15.19.11.00,  76.15.19.20.00,  40.16.93.00.00  and  39.26.90.40.00.
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Resolution
Issuing the Technical Regulation on Household Pressure Cookers and Parts and Accessories
Thereof  (7 pages, in Spanish).
6. Description of content:  Requirements for eliminating and preventing health risks,
Materials, Requirements for eliminating and preventing safety risks, Operation of pressure
regulators, Pressure release safety valve, Lid safety for pans with external locking devices,Bursting pressure, Temperature of handles, holders and knobs, Strength of handles, holders
and fastenings, Requirements for the prevention of misleading practices, Marking, Labelling
of pressure cookers, Labelling of spare parts for pressure cookers and Instruction manual.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:   
To minimize or prevent risks to human life by reducing the risks of accidents
resulting from the use of pressure cookers and to prevent practices likely to mislead
consumers.
8. Relevant documents:  ISO 2859-1: 1994-06-15, Sampling procedures for inspection by
attributes.  Part 1: Sampling schemes indexed by acceptance quality limit (AQL) for lot-by-lot inspection; Colombian Technical Standards NTC 1798: 1999-08-25 (fourth revision).
Household articles.  Pressure cookers; and NTC 1982: 1986-08-06 (first revision).
Household articles.  Packing for pressure cooker seals.
9. Proposed date of adoption:  30 March 2002
Proposed date of entry into force:  Upon publication in the Official Journal.
10. Final date for comments:  20 March 2002G/TBT/N/COL/13
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11. Texts available in:
National enquiry point:  
Ministry of Economic Development
Department of Trade and Promotion of Competition
Carrera 13, No. 28 - 01, 7th floor
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Tel.:  (571) 350-5500, ext. 700
Fax:  (571) 350-9564
E-mail:  normalizacion01@mindesa.gov.co
              COLOMBIA@mindesa.gov.co
or address, telephone and fax numbers and E-mail and Web site addresses, if
available, of other body:
Directorate-General for Industry
Carrera 13, No. 28 - 01, 8th floor
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Tel.: (571) 350-3950, ext. 870Fax: (571) 350-5286
E-mail: sectorial@mindesa.gov.co