. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/JOR/1
31 May 2002
(02-3023)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
NOTIFICATION OF EMERGENCY MEASURES
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   THE HASHEMITE KINGDOM OF JORDAN
If applicable, name of local government involved:
2. Agency responsible:  Ministry of Agriculture
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):  Cattle and cattle products.
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:
Finland, Slovenia and Austria
5. Title, language  and number of pages of the notified document:  Resolution
No. 5/2/26/2/679 of 16 January 2002 and re solution No. 5/2/26/2/2832 of 3 March 2002
"banning the import of live cattle, meat (chilled, frozen), meat products, bovine gelatine,
bovine fat, meat and bone meal, animal feed c oncentrates containing previous products and
semen".
6. Description of content:  Following the confirmation of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
(BSE) in Finland, Slovenia and Austria, the Ministry of Agriculture has imposed a ban on
imports of live cattle, cattle meat (chilled, frozen), meat products, bovine gelatine, bovine fat,
meat and bone meal, animal feed concentrates  containing previous products and semen, in
addition to the previous listed countries (B ritain, Ireland, France,  Switzerland, Portugal,
Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Ital y, Spain, Germany, Liechtenstein, Slovak
Republic and Japan).
7. Objective and rationale:  [  X ] food safety, [ X ] animal health, [   ] plant protection,
[ X ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [   ]  protect territory from
other damage from pests
8. Nature of the urgent problem(s) and reason for urgent action:  Bovine Spongiform
Encephalopathy (BSE) to date has not been regist ered in Jordan and is therefore classified as
an exotic disease in the national territory.G/SPS/N/JOR/1
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9. International standard, gu ideline or recommendation:
[   ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [   ] Office International des Epizooties,
[   ] International Plant Prot ection Convention, [   ] None
If an international standard , guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:  The World Health Organization (WHO), the
Office International des Epizoo ties (OIE) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations (FAO) recommend a ban on the use of meat meal, blood meat, bone meal,
meat and bone meal and mammalian offal meal  in foodstuffs for ru minants within the
strategies for the prevention of the transmission of BSE.
10. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  Arabic
11. Date of entry into force/period of application (as applicable):  24 April 2002
12. Agency or authority designated to handl e comments:  [ X ] National notification
authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if
available) of other body:
13. Texts available from:  [ X ] National notification authority, [ X ]  National enquiry
point,  or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:
Trade Agreement Units / SPS Enquiries
Ministry of Agriculture
Amman – Jordan
Tel: ++962 6 568 6151 Ext. 269
Fax: ++962 6 568 6310Email: khhwaidi@moa.gov.jo