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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/EEC/178
15 October 2002
(02-5565)
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):  Infant formulae and follow-on formulae,  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/2074/2002 rev 3 Draft Co mmission Directive amendi ng Directive 91/321/EEC on
infant formulae and follow-on formulae (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 infant formulae and follow-on formulae
- 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 infa nt formulae 72-1981 and the opinion provided by
the Scientific Committee for Food [available at
http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/scf/index_en.htmlG/SPS/N/EEC/178
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9. Relevant documents and language(s ) in which these are available:  Document
SANCO/2074/2002 rev 3 Draft Co mmission Directive amendi ng Directive 91/321/EEC on
infant formulae and follow-on formulae (7 pages) (available in English, translations into the
other community languages will follow). When a dopted 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 .