Profile: National
Notification Authority / National Enquiry Point
Servicio Agr韈ola y Granadero (SAG)
Departamento de Asuntos Internacionales
Avenida Bulnes 140
Santiago
CHILE
Ph: +562 672 36 35/688 38 11
Fax: +562 671 74 19
Email: [email protected]
[email protected]
Type: Combined notification authority and national
enquiry point
Staff: 2 (official and administrative support)
Facilities:
MS Word
Database
Telephone
Fax
Email |
Chile has one official and an administrative support person
to operate both its national notification authority and
national enquiry point. The official in terms of the national
enquiry point has responsibility for maintaining a complete
electronic archive with all standards of all countries
notifying to the WTO, receiving documents notified by other
WTO members and when required sending them to those sectors
which could be interested in them within Chile. The
administrative support person provides support to the official
in this capacity.
For the national notification authority, the official
receives, classifies, copies and distributes notifications
from other WTO members to interested parties; receives Chilean
SPS notifications, prepares the SPS format and sends it to the
WTO Secretariat; maintains an electronic archive of
notifications; and receives and transmits requests for
regulations from other WTO members. The administrative support
person maintains an electronic archive of all foreign
regulations received and sent with a note of those sectors to
which they have been sent; maintains a hard copy archive
sorted by Member; and other support work.
Chile receives SPS notifications made by other WTO members
and SPS Committee documents via the Internet and also its
Ministry for External Relations. It also regularly follows the
work of the SPS Committee through attending meetings and also
by the WTO抯 website.
Every time that an SPS notification of importance is
received, the document notified is requested, and, when
received, it is distributed to interested parties. In
addition, Chile is also starting to circulate copies of SPS
notifications of interest to different sectors. |