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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/EEC/180
20 December 2002
(02-7025)
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):  Mineral water including natural mineral waters (CN 2201) ICS:67.160.20.
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: SANCO/00/1986 Rev.9
Draft Commission Directive establishing the list, concentration limits and labelling
requirements for the constituents of natural mineral waters and the conditions for using
ozone-enriched air for the treatment of natural mineral waters and spring waters. EN 9 pp.
6. Description of content:   This draft directive establish admissible limits of mineral waters’
constituents and the corresponding labelling requirements.  It also sets  conditions for the
use of ozone-enriched air for separating certain compounds from natural mineral waters or
spring waters.
7. Objective and rationale:  [  X ] food safety, [   ] 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:
[ X ] 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:   The proposal follows largely Codex Standard
108-1981, rev. 1-1997 (revised in the 7th session, October 2000) as incorporated now into
CODEX STAN 227-2001.
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9. Relevant documents and language(s ) in which these are available:  European
Commission Document SANCO/00/1986 Rev.9 (available in all Community languages).
When adopted, the final rule will be publishe d in the Official Journal of the European
Communities, available at:  http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/oj/index.html .
10. Proposed date of adoption:   A date cannot be given at this stage.
11. Proposed date of entry into force:   1 January 2004 at the latest (EU Member States may
start application at an earlier date, as soon as adopted and coming into force).
12. Final date for comments:   Comments are welcomed anytime
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [   ] National notification
authority, [ X ] 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: .