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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/EEC/200
6 June 2003
(03-2941)
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 E – Food Safety, Plant Health, Animal Health
and Welfare, International questions
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):  Animal Feedingstuffs (CN Heading 2309) ICS: 65.040, 65.040.20 and 65.120
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:
Member States of the European Communities (EC) and third countries exporting the
products concerned to the EC.
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:   COM (2003) 180
[2003/0071 (COD)] Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the
Council laying down requirem ents for feed hygiene  (52 pages).  Available in all EU official
languages.
6. Description of content:  This proposal seeks to ensure that feed safety is considered at all
stages, from – and including – primary producti on up to – and including – the placing on the
feed market, that may have an impact on feed and food safety.
A comprehensive overview of the practical impli cations of this proposal is provided in Press
Notice IP/03/567 available at http://europa.eu.int/rapid/start/cgi/guesten.ksh
7. Objective and rationale:  [  X ] food safety, [ X ] animal health, [   ] plant protection,
[   ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease,  [   ]  protect territory from other
damage from pests
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/200
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9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  European
Commission Document COM(2003)180.  When adop ted 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:   This proposal, with Inter-institutional code COM(2003)180
[2003/0071(COD)], has been submitted by the Commission to the European Parliament
according to the procedure established in Article 251 of the EU treaty and an exact date of
adoption cannot be given at this moment.
You may know the stage of the decision- making process between the Commission, the
European Parliament and the Council by consulting the data-base "Pre-Lex" inhttp:// europa.eu.int/prelex/apcnet.cfm?CL=en
The specific page for this proposal is the following page:http://europa.eu.int/prelex/detail_dossier_real.cfm?CL=en&DosId=182190
11. Proposed date of entry into force:   The Regulation shall enter into force on the date of its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .  It shall apply one year after the
entry into force of the Regulation.
12. Final date for comments:  Sixty (60) days after the date of notification
Agency or authority designated to handl e comments:  [ X ] National notification
authority, [   ] EC 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:
Text available in:   http://europea.eu.int/eur-lex/en/search/search_lip.html
For English, French and Spanish, go to:
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/com/pdf/2003/com2003_0180en01.pdf
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/fr/com/pdf/2003/com2003_0180fr01.pdf
http//europa.eu.int/eur-lex /es/com/pdf/2003/com2003_0180es01.pdf