. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/EEC/50 
21 January 2004 
 (04-0196) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  English 
   
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   European Commission 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be  indicated if different from above:         
European Commission, 
EC-TBT Enquiry Point, 
Fax:  0032 2 299 80 43, E-mail: ec-tbt@cec.eu.int
 
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:         
This measure has also been notified u nder the SPS agreement (see under point 7). 
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in  addition, where applicable):   Foods for particular 
nutritional uses   
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Draft Commission 
Directive amending Directive 2001/15/EC to in clude certain substances in the Annex 
(4 pages, in English, French and Spanish) 
6. Description of content:   This draft Commission Direc tive (amending Directive 2001/15/EC 
to include certain substances in the Annex) adds eight substances that have received a 
favourable scientific evaluation to the Annex of Directive 2001/15/EC for use for specific 
nutritional purposes in certain categories of foods for particular nutritional uses. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
To ensure a high level of protection of public health and the free circulation of products, 
Commission Directive 2001/15/EC of 15 Februa ry 2001 on substances that may be added for 
specific nutritional purposes in f oods for particular nutritional us es specifies certain categories 
of substances and mentions for each of them th e chemical substances that may be used in the 
manufacture of foods for partic ular nutritional uses.  The meas ure was notified to the WTO in 
2000 (G/TBT/Notif.00/95).    Since 2001 additional substances have been evaluated and the proposed measure includes 
them in the annex to Directive 2001/15/EC whic h would reduce barriers to trade.  Products 
containing the substances listed in the Draft Di rective are on the market and it is necessary 
that the measures are transposed before 1 Ap ril 2004 in order to avoid that the prohibition G/TBT/N/EEC/50 
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provided for in Directive 2001/15/EC becomes a pplicable to the substances for a limited 
period of time which would cause an  undue disruption of the market.  
Both Directive 2001/15/EEC and the presen t draft have been notified under the 
SPS Agreement  (G/SPS/N/EEC/80 and G/SPS/N/EEC/229). 
8. Relevant documents:   European Commission Document SANCO/5143/2003rev.3 Proposal 
for Draft Directive amending Directive 2001/15/EC to include certain substances in the 
Annex (Available in  English, French and Spanish).  
When adopted it will be published in the Official Journa l available at:  
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/oj/index.html . 
9. Proposed date of adoption:  January 2004 
Proposed date of entry into force: 20 days after publication in the Official Journal of 
the European Union 
10. Final date for comments:   20 days from date of notification 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [    ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:        
Commission, 
EC-TBT Enquiry Point, 
Fax: 0032 299 80 43, 
E-mail: ec-tbt@cec.eu.int