. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/EEC/214
25 September 2003
(03-5089)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
If applicable, name of local government involved:
2. Agency responsible:   Commission of the European Communities, Health &Consumer
Protection Directorate- General Directorate D – Food Safe ty:  production and distribution
chain.
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):  Materials and articles in contact with food including catering containers and
materials and articles in contact with drinking water covered by TARIC positions 3919,
3920, 3923 & 3924.  ICS number: 67.250.
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:
Member States of the European Communities (EEC) and third countries exporting the
products concerned to the EEC.
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:  Draft Commission
Directive amending Directive 2002/16/EC on the use of certain epoxy derivatives inmaterials and articles intended to come into contact with foodstuffs (SANCO/2003/960,
5 pages)
6. Description of content: The draft Directive proposes to extend the provisional
authorization of BADGE for one year, until 31 December 2005, pending the submission of
new toxicological data and their evaluation by the European Food Safety Authority.  In
addition the proposal clarifies that the date of filling, required for materials and articlesfilled before 1 March 2003, could be replaced by another indication provided that this
indication permits the identification of the date of filling.
7. Objective and rationale:  [  X ] food safety, [   ] animal health, [   ] plant protection,
[  ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or di sease,  [   ]  protect territory from other
damage from pests:   To facilitate trade by a more flex ible approach to the identification of
the date of filling.
8. International standard, gu ideline or recommendation:
[   ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [   ] Office International des Epizooties,
[   ] International Plant Prot ection Convention, [ X ] None
If an international standard , guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:G/SPS/N/EEC/214
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9. Relevant documents and language(s ) in which these are available: European
Commission Document SANCO/2003 /960 (available in all community languages).  When
adopted it will be published at the Official Journal available at:
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/oj/index.html
10. Proposed date of adoption:   15 January 2004
11. Proposed date of entry into force:   15 February 2004
12. Final date for comments:  10 December 2003
Agency or authority designated to handle co mments:  [ X ] EC notification authority,
[   ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of
other body:
13. Texts available from:  [   ] National notification authority,  [ X ]  EC enquiry point,  or
address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:   F u r t h e r  t o
Document SANCO/2003/960 information releva nt to this proposal can be found in:
• Opinions and minutes of the Scientific Committee for Food (SCF) at:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/scf/out148_en.pdf ;
• Websites of the EEC Joint Research Centre on Food Contact Materials at:
http://cpf.jrc.it/webpack/ ;  and
• Website of General Directorate for  Health and Consumer Protection at:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sfp/food_contact/index_en.html