PER/121
WTO/TBT
PE Peru
  • 65 - Agriculture
2020-05-31
2020-05-05

Section I (chapters 1 to 5: live animals; animal products)

Section II (chapters 6 to 14: vegetable products)

Section III (chapter 15: animal or vegetable fats and oils)

Section IV (chapters 16 to 24: prepared foodstuffs; beverages and spirits; tobacco)

Section IX (chapters 44 to 45: wood; wood charcoal; cork)

Section X (chapter 47: woodpulp)

Section XI (chapters 50 to 53: textiles)

Reglamento Interno Sectorial sobre Seguridad de la Biotecnología para el Desarrollo de Actividades con Organismos Vivos Modificados para el Sector Agrario (Sectoral internal regulation on biotechnology safety for activities involving living modified organisms for the agricultural sector) (58 pages, in Spanish)

The notified regulation implements the provisions and procedures set out in Law No. 27104 (Law on the prevention of risks derived from the use of biotechnology) and its Regulation and in the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity that concern activities involving living modified organisms (LMOs) for the agricultural sector intended for:

(i) Use as food or feed, or for processing;

(ii) Contained use; or

(iii) Intentional introduction into the environment.