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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/EEC/179
15 October 2002
(02-5566)
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):   Processed cereal-based foods and baby foods for infants and young children
including goods circulating under CN headings 1901; 2104; 2106.  ICS 67.230.
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: Document
SANCO/2075/2002 rev 3 Draft Co mmission Directive amendi ng Directive 96/5/EC on
processed cereal-based foods and baby foods for infants and young children (7 pages)
6. Description of content:
Adaptation of the Community legislation as regards
- the pesticides which may not be used in agricultural production intended for the production
of processed cereal-bas ed foods and baby foods
- the fixing of the maximum residue levels of pesticides or metabolites that could be present
in these particular foodstuffs.
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:
This draft follows Codex Standard for ca nned baby foods 73-1983, Codex Standard for
processed cereal based food for infants a nd children 74-1981, and the opinion provided by
the Scientific Committee for Food [available at
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9. Relevant documents and language(s ) in which these are available:  Document
SANCO/2075/2002 rev 3 Draft Co mmission Directive amendi ng Directive 96/5/EC on
processed cereal-based foods and baby foods for infants and young children (7 pages)
(available in English, translations into the other community languages will follow).  When
adopted 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:   December 2002
11. Proposed date of entry into force:   December 2004
12. Final date for comments:   60 days after date of notification
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:
Texts, after adoption, will be made available from Eur-Lex http://europa.eu.int/eur-
lex/en/index.html .