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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/EEC/134
6 August 2001
(01-3876)
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:  European Commission, General Directorate for Health and Consumer
Protection
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where
applicable).  All Animal fodder within TARIC Chapters 10 (Cereals); 11 (Products of the
milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten); 12 (Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits,
miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit; straw and fodder); 15 (Animal or vegetable fats and
oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats, animal or vegetable waxes); 23
(Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared animal fodder except for fur
animals).  Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or
practicable:  EC member States and third countries exporting to the European
Communities
4. Title and number of pages of the notified document:  Draft Commission Directive
2001/…/EC amending Council Directive 1999/29/EC on undesirable substances and
products in animal nutrition (7 pages)
5. Description of content:  This draft Directive forms a part of an overall comprehensive
strategy to reduce the presence of dioxins in environment, food and feed. (NotificationsG/SPS/N/EEC/134, G/SPS/N/EEC/135, G/SPS/N/EEC/136 and G/SPS/N/EEC/137)
This draft Directive establishes following ma ximum levels (maximum level relative to a
feedingstuff with a moisture content of 12 per cent and expressed in WHO-PCDD/F-TEQ =
sum of polychlorinated dibenzo- para -dioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans
(PCDFs) expressed in World Health Organization (WHO) toxic equivalents, using the
WHO –TEFs (toxic equivalency factors):
• All feed materials of plant origin including vegetable oils
and by-products 0.75 ng/kg
• Minerals for feed use 1.00 ng/kg
• Animal fat including milk and egg fat 2.00 ng/kg
• Other land animal products including milk and milk
products, eggs and egg products 0.75 ng/kg
• Fish oil  6.00 ng/kg
• Fish, other aquatic animals, their products and by-products
with the exception of fish oil 1.25 ng/kg
• Compound feedingstuffs, with the exception of feedingstuffs
for fur animals 0.75 ng/kg
• Feedingstuffs for fish 2.25 ng/kgG/SPS/N/EEC/134
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6. 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           
7. An international standard, guideline or recommendation does not exist [  X ].
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:           
8. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  European
Commission Document SANC O/0382/01 – Rev.4 (Available in all EC languages)
9. Proposed date of adoption:  October 2001
10. Proposed date of entry into force:  1 January 2002
11. Final date for comments:  15 September 2001
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:           
12. Texts available from: [     ] National notification authority, [  X ] EC enquiry point or
address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:
The Risk assessments made by the Scientific Committee for food are available at
http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/scf/out78_en.pdf
http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/scf/out90_en.pdf
The Risk assessments made by the Scientific Committee for Animal Nutrition is available athttp://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/scan/out55_en.pdf
The assessment of the health risk of dioxins made by a WHO consultation (1998) isavailable at http://www.who.int/pcs/docs/diox in-exec-sum/exe-sum-final.html
The report of the 57th meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee of Food Additives
(JECFA) International Program for Chemical  Safety (IPCS, 2001) is available at:
http://www.who.int/pcs/jecfa/Summary57-corr.pdf