G/SPS/N/TPKM/543/Rev.1/Add.2  
4 September 2023  
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication, received on 1 September 2023, is being circulated at the request of 
the Delegation of The Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen and Matsu . 
 
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The amendment of the "Procedure for the Recognition of Infectious Animal Disease -Free Status of a 
Foreign Country (Zone)"  
The Separate Customs Territory of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen  and Matsu notified the first amendment 
to the "Procedure for the Recognition of Infectious Animal Disease -Free Status of a Foreign Country" 
on 23 November 2021 (G/SPS/N/TPKM/543/Rev.1/Add.1). Since 1 August 2023, the Council of 
Agriculture (COA) and the B ureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine (BAPHIQ), 
COA have been reorganized and renamed as the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) and the Animal and 
Plant Health Inspection Agency (APHIA), MOA. In addition, the abbreviation of the World Organ isation 
for Animal Health (OIE) was changed as the WOAH. Therefore, with the changes (marked in red), the 
amendment of the "Procedure for the Recognition of Infectious Animal Disease -Free Status of a 
Foreign Country (Zone)" was updated and promulgated on 2 5 August 2023.  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2023/SPS/TPKM/23_12131_00_e.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2023/SPS/TPKM/23_12131_01_e.pdf  
This addendum concerns a:  
[ ] Modification of final date for comments  
[X] Notification of adoption, publication or entry into force of regulation  
[ ] Modification of content and/or scope of previously notified draft regulation  
[ ] Withdrawal of proposed regulation  
[ ] Change in proposed date of adoption, publication or date o f entry into force  
[ ] Other:  
Comment period: (If the addendum extends the scope of the previously notified measure 
in terms of products and/or potentially affected Members, a new deadline for receipt of 
comments should be provided, normally of at least 60 calendar days. Under other 
circumstances, such as extension of originally announced final date for comments, the 
comment period provided in the addendum may vary.)  
[ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the addendum to the notification an d/or 
(dd/mm/yy) : Not applicable  
Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [X]  National Notification Authority, 
[X] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other 
body:  
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Ag ency, Ministry of Agriculture  
9F, No, 100, Sec. 2 Heping W. Rd, Zhongzheng Dist. Taipei City, 100060, Taiwan  
Tel: +(886)2 3343 2091  G/SPS/N/TPKM/543/Rev.1/Add.2  
 
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  Fax: +(886)2 2332 2200  
E-mail: wtosps@aphia.gov.tw  
Text(s) available from: [X]  National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. 
Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other body:  
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Agency, Ministry of Agriculture  
9F, No, 100, Sec. 2 Heping W. Rd, Zhongzheng Dist. Taipei City, 100060, Taiwan  
Tel: +(886)2 3343 2091  
Fax: +(886)2 2332 2200  
E-mail: wtosps@aphia.gov.tw  
 
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