G/SPS/N/MAR/95  
24 April 2023 
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original:  French  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
1. Notifying Member : MOROCCO  
If applicable, name of local government involved:  
2. Agency responsible : Office National de Sécurité Sanitaire des Produits Alimentaires , 
ONSSA (National Office for Food Safety)  
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national 
schedules deposited with the WTO ; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, 
where applicable) : Carob seedlings  
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  
[X] All trading partners  
[ ] Specific regions or countries:  
5. Title of the notified document : Projet d'arrêté du ministre de l'agriculture, de la pêche 
maritime, du développement rural et des eaux et forêts portant homologation d u 
règlement technique relatif à la production, au contrôle, au conditionnement et à la 
certification des plants de caroubier  (Draft Order of the Minister for Agriculture, Marine 
Fisheries, Rural Development, Water Resources and Forestry approving the techn ical 
regulation for the production, control, packaging and certification of carob seedlings ). 
Language(s) : French Number of pages : 12 
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2023/SPS/MAR/23_9021_00_f.pdf  
6. Description of content : Dahir No. 1-69-169 of 2 5 July 1 969 regulating the production 
and marketing of seeds and seedlings, as amended and supplemented by the Dahir 
promulgating Law No. 1-76-472 of 1 9 September 1 977, and in particular Articles 1, 2 and 
5 thereof, provides that technical regulations defining the conditions of production, 
contro l, packaging and certification of seeds and seedlings shall be approved by an order 
of the Minister in charge of agriculture.  
To meet the objectives of the new "Generation Green" agricultural strategy that attaches 
great importance to carob tree cultivatio n through the expansion of areas over  thousand s 
of hectares, and to meet the needs of growers of authentic, disease -free carob seedlings , 
the National Office for Food Safety has developed a draft technical regulation that 
specifies the methods of productio n, control, packaging and certification of carob 
seedlings . 
7. Objective and rationale : [ ] food safety, [ ] animal health, [X]  plant protection, 
[ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [X]  protect territory from 
other damage from pests.  G/SPS/N/MAR/95  
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  8. Is there a relevant international standard ? If so, identify the standard:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g. title or serial number of Codex 
standard or related text) : 
[ ] World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. T errestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number) : 
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. I SPM number) : 
[X] None  
Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?  
[ ] Yes [ ] No 
If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:  
9. Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : To be determined  
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) : To be determined  
11. Proposed date of entry into force : [ ] Six months from date of publication, and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) : To be determined  
[ ] Trade facilitating measure  
12. Final date for comments : [X] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : 23 June 2 023 
Agency or authority designated to handle comments : [X] National Notification 
Authority, [X]  National Enquiry Point . Address, fax number and email address 
(if availa ble) of other body:  
Division de la Normalisation et des Questions SPS  (Standardization and SPS Matters 
Division)  
Direction de l'Evaluation des Risques et des Affaires Juridiques  (Directorate of Risk 
Assessment and Legal Affairs)  
Office National de Sécurité Sanitaire des Produits Alimentaires  (National Office for Food 
Safety)  
Avenue Hadj Ahmed Cherkaoui  
Tel.: (212) 5 37 67 65 11/13  
Mobile : Tel.: (212) 6 73 99 78 17  
Fax: Tel.: (212) 5 37 68 20 49  
Email: enquirypoint.spsmar@onssa.gov.ma  
Website: http://www.onssa.gov.ma  G/SPS/N/MAR/95  
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  13. Text(s) available from : [X] National Notification Authority, [X]  National Enquiry 
Point . Address, fax number and email address (if available) of other body:  
Division de la Normalisation et des Questions SPS  (Standardization and SPS Matters 
Division)  
Direction de l'Evaluation des Risques et des Affaires Ju ridiques  (Directorate of Risk 
Assessment and Legal Affairs)  
Office National de Sécurité Sanitaire des Produits Alimentaires  (National Office for Food 
Safety)  
Avenue Hadj Ahmed Cherkaoui  
Tel.: (212) 5 37 67 65 11/13  
Mobile : Tel.: (212) 6 73 99 78 17  
Fax: Tel.: (212) 5 37 68 20 49  
Email: enquirypoint.spsmar@onssa.gov.ma  
Website: http://www.onssa.gov.ma