. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/USA/980 
8 September 2004 
 (04-3753) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION  
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   UNITED STATES
 
If applicable, name of local government involved: 
2. Agency responsible:   Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item numbe r(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where 
applicable):  Products that use the fungicide Pyraclostrobin such as succulent beans, peas, 
corn, legume vegetables, pome fruit, leafy green  brassica, citrus fruit, and soybeans.   
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  Any 
US trade partners. 
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:   Notice: Pyraclostrobin; 
Notice of Filing Four Pesticide Petitions to Es tablish  Tolerances for a Certain Pesticide 
Chemical in or on Food (available in English, 10 pages). 
6. Description of content:  This notice announces the initial filing of a pesticide petition 
proposing the establishment of regulations for the combined residues of the fungicide pyraclostrobin (carbamic acid, [2-[[[1-(4-chlorophenyl)-1H-pyrazol-3-
]oxy]methyl]phenyl]methoxy-, methyl ester) and its metabolite BF 500-3 (methyl-N-[[[1-
(4-chlorophenyl) pyrazol-3-yl]oxy]o-tolyl] ca rbamate), expressed as parent compound. The 
following tolerances are proposed: Bean, succulent  0.5 parts per million (ppm); bean forage 
1.0 ppm; bean hay 11.0 ppm; pea, dry 0.5 ppm; pea, field, hay 26 ppm; pea, field, vines 10 ppm; corn, field, grain 0.1 ppm; corn, field, forage 5.0 ppm; corn, field, stover 17 ppm; 
corn, field, aspirated grain fractions 1.5 ppm; corn, field, refined oil 0.3 ppm); corn, pop 
0.1 ppm; corn, sweet, kernel plus cob with husk removed 0.04 ppm; corn, sweet, forage 5.0 
ppm; corn, sweet, stover 23 ppm; vegetable, le gume, edible-podded, subgroup 6A 0.5 ppm; 
hop 23 ppm; mango 0.1 ppm; peppermint 8.0 ppm; spearmint 8.0 ppm; papaya 0.1 ppm; pea and bean, succulent shelled, subgroup 6B  0.2 ppm; fruit, pome, group 1.5 ppm; apple, 
wet pomace 4.0 ppm; sunflower 0.3 ppm; brassica, leafy greens, subgroup 5B 16 ppm; 
fruit, citrus, group 2 ppm; fruit, citrus, dried pulp 12.5 ppm; citrus, oil 9 ppm; soybean 0.04 
ppm; soybean, forage 5 ppm; soybean, hay 7 pp m; and soybean, aspirated grain fractions 
0.25 ppm.  EPA has also received a pesticide petition proposing to establish tolerances for 
the combined residues of the fungicide pyraclos trobin and its metabolite BF 500-3 in or on 
vegetables, leafy, except brassica, group 4 29 ppm. 
7. Objective and rationale:  [ X ] food safety, [   ] animal health, [   ] plant protection, 
[ X ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [   ] protect territory from other 
damage from pests G/SPS/N/USA/980 
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 8. International standard, guideline or recommendation:  
[   ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [   ] World Organization for Animal Health 
(OIE), [   ] International Plant Protection Convention, [ X ] None  
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate 
reference and briefly identify deviations:   NA 
9. Relevant documents and language(s ) in which these are available:   DOCID:fr, Federal 
Register : 27 August 2004 (Volume 69, Number 166) Pages 52670-52679 
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA- PEST/2004/August/Day-27/p19627.htm  (available in 
English). 
10. Proposed date of adoption:   Not available 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:   Not available 
12. Final date for comments:  27 September 2004 
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [ X ] National notification 
authority, [   ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if 
available) of other body:   Registration Division (7505C), Office of Pesticide Programs 
(OPP), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, 
DC 20460.  opp-docket@epa.gov  Note:  Identify docket name "OPP-2004-0292" in 
subject line of your response. 
13. Texts available from:  [   ] National notificati on authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, 
or address, fax number and E-mail a ddress (if available) of other body:   Ms. Julie 
Morin, United States SPS Enquiry Point O fficer, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, 
Food Safety & Technical Services Divisi on, Stop 1027, Washi ngton D.C. 20250.  
Tel:  202-720-4051;  Fax:  202-690-0677;  Email:  fstsd@usda.gov