The National Institute for the Defense of Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property (INDECOPI in Spanish), thru the Specialized Chamber for the Elimination of Bureaucratic Barriers, has published Resolution No. 0184-2026/SEL-INDECOPI, which orders the Ministry of Health to eliminate the validity limit on this key sanitary permit for national production.

Bureaucratic Barrier Declared Illegal

The imposition of a specific validity period of two (2) years for the official Technical Validation Certificate of the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points Plan (hereinafter, HACCP), materialized in Article 58-A of the Regulation on Health Surveillance and Control of Food and Beverages, approved by Supreme Decree 007-98-SA, and in Article 33 of the Health Standard for the application of the HACCP System in the manufacture of Food and Beverages, approved by Ministerial Resolution 449-2006-MINSA.