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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/EEC/125
30 April 2001
(01-2185)
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:  European Commission, General Directorate for Health and Consumer
Protection
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where
applicable).  Certain fruit, vegetables, tree nuts, pulses, oilseeds, potatoes, tea, hops
including and animal feedingstuffs   Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the
extent relevant or practicable:  EC member States and third countries trading with the
European Communities
4. Title and number of pages of the notified document:  Draft Commission Directive
amending the Annexes to Council Directives 90/642/EEC on the fixing of maximum levels
for pesticide residues in and on certain products of plant origin, including fruit and
vegetables (9 pages)
5. Description of content:  The draft directive notified hereby fixes maximum residue limits
(MRLs) for the pesticides chlormequat , chlorothalon , dicofol and endosulfan  on certain
fruit, vegetables, tree nuts, pulses, oilseeds, potatoes, tea, and hops. Although for these
pesticides, MRLs were already fixed by  Commission Directive 2000/42/EC or 1998/82/EC,
the Commission received new data which, after evaluation, justified the proposed
modifications. The affected products are:  citrus fruit; tree nuts (shelled or unshelled);  pome
fruit;  stone fruit (apricots, peaches, others); grapes (table, wine and table and wine);strawberries, cane fruit;  blackberries, raspberries, currants (red, black and white),
gooseberries, cranberries, wild berries and other small fruit and berries;  bananas, olives;
root and tuber vegetables (carrots, celeriac and others);  bulb vegetables (garlic, onions,
shallots, spring onions and others); fruiting vegetables (tomatoes, peppers, others),
cucurbits, edible peel (cucumbers gherkins);  sweet corn;  Brassica vegetables (floweringbrasicae, Brussels sprouts, head cabbage and others);  leafy brasicae;  leafy vegetables and
fresh herbs (lettuces and similar, spinach and similar, water cress, witloof, herbs and
others);  legume vegetables (beans and peas with and without pods), stem vegetables, fresh
(celery, leek and others), fungi (cultivated and wild);  pulses;  oilseeds (peanuts, soya bean,
cotton seeds and others);  potatoes;  tea ;  hops.
6. Objective and rationale: [  X ] food safety,  [    ] animal health,  [     ] plant protection,
[    ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [     ] protect territory from
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7. An international standard, guideline or recommendation does not exist [    ].
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:  This proposal takes into consideration
comments made to a draft Commission Directive on the fixing of maximum levels for
pesticide residues in and on cereals, foodstuffs of animal origin and certain products of plantorigin, including fruit and vegetables resp ectively (Doc. SANCO/3383/99 Rev. 2) which
was notified as G/SPS/N/EEC/79 on 17 March 2000.
8. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  European
Commission Document SANCO/ 950 Rev.1 (Available in all official EC languages)
9. Proposed date of adoption:  The Directive will be adopted by 1 May 2001, possible
comments will be taken into account by an amending Directive.
10. Proposed date of entry into force:  1 July 2001
11. Final date for comments: Comments can be made at any time. If accepted these will be
taken into account by means of an amending Directive.
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [     ] National notification
authority, [    ] EC enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if
available) of other body:           
12. Texts available from: [     ] National notification authority, [  X ] EC enquiry point or
address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body: