Profile: National Notification Authority / National Enquiry Point

Servicio Agrícola 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: rrii@sag.minagri.gob.cl
dai@sagminagri.gob.cl

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’s 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.