G/TBT/N/SAU/1328  
6 March 2024  
(24-2077) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Saudi Food and Drug Authority  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different fr om above:   
Saudi Standards Metrology and Quality Organization  
P.O. BOX: 3437 Riyadh 11471 Tel: +966(1)2529095 Fax +966(1)4520086 Email: 
enquirypoint@saso.gov.sa  Website: www.s aso.gov.sa  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [  ], 5.7.1 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Animal 
feeding stuffs (ICS code(s): 65.120)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Aquatic feed.; 
(24 page(s), in Arabic)  
6. Description of content:  This regulation specifies the requirements for feed for aquatic  
feed (fish and shrimp).  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of animal or plant life or health  
8. Relevant documents:   
-World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH). (2022). DISEASES LISTED BY THE 
WOAH, CHAPTER 1.3. Aquatic Animal Health Code. https://www.woah.org/en/what -we-
do/standards/codes -and-manuals/aquatic -code-online -
access/?id=169&L=1&htmfile=chapitre_diseases_listed.htm.  
-Nutrient Requirements of fish and shrimps, The National A cademy Press revised 2011.  
-FAO Aquaculture Feed and Fertilizer Resources Information System: 
http://www.fao.org/fishery/affris/feed -and-feed-ingredient -standards/en/ . 
-Aquatic Animal Products Import Health Standard: Aquatic Animal Products Ministry for 
Primary Industries, New Zealand (Item 2.8 Aquatic animal meal and aquatic animal oil, 
page 21)..  G/TBT/N/SAU/1328  
 
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  -WORLD ORGANISATION FOR ANIMAL HEALTH. (2014). AQUATIC ANIMAL HEALTH CODE, 
Seventeenth Edition. ISBN 978 -92-9044-942-3. WWW: http://www.oie.int . Retrieved 
from: https://www4.fisheries.go.th/local/file_document/20200417172944_1_file.PDF  
-Import Health Standard: Aquatic Animal Products. (2022). Aquatic Animal  Products, 
Import Health Standard. Retrieved from: 
https://www.mpi.govt.nz/dmsdocument/51229 -Aquatic -Animal -Products -Import -health -
standard . 
-REGULATION (EC) No 1069/2009 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE 
COUNCIL. Retrieved from: https://eur -
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/Lex UriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:300:0001:0033:EN:PDF . 
-WORLD ORGANISATION FOR ANIMAL HEALTH (WAOH). (2014). AQUATIC ANIMAL 
HEALTH CODE. Seventeenth Edition. ISBN 978 -92-9044-942-3. Retrieved from: 
https://www.woah.org/en/what -we-do/standards/codes -and-manuals/aquatic -code-
online -access/  
-U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (USDA). 2022. Voluntar y 2022 U.S. National 
Animal Health Reporting System (NAHRS) Reportable Diseases, Infections, and 
Infestations List. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. 
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/nahrs/downloads/nlrad -nahrs -disease -
list.pdf . 
-Bondad -Reantaso, M. G., McGladdery, S. E., East, I., & Subasinghe, R. P. (2001). Asia 
diagnostic guide to aquatic animal disease s. Food and Agriculture Organization of the 
United Nations (FAO), the Network of Aquaculture Centers in Asia -Pacific (NACA). 
https://www.fao.org/3/y1679e/y1679e.pdf . 
-Egyptian Standard Specification CE: 3957/2005: Fish diets.  
-Gulf Standard Specification MQS: 1072/2002 Standard specifications for raw feed 
materials, feed additives, and manufactured feed for farm animals and poultry).  
-Nutritional requirements of fish (Parts I and II): Academy of Scientific Research and 
Technology: Project to determine the nutritional requirements of fish under intensive 
environmental conditions: Arab Republic of Egypt (2007).  
-Egyptian Standard Specification CE: 4089/2008 Shrimp rations.  
-Gulf Standard Specification MQS: 1072/2002 Standard specifications for raw feed 
materials, feed additives, and manufactured feed for farm animals and poultry.  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Prop osed date of entry into force:  6 months from adoption  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
Saudi Standards Metrology and Quality Organization  
P.O. BOX: 3437 Riyadh 11471 Tel: +966(1)2529095 Fax +966(1)4520086 Email: 
enquirypoint@saso.gov.sa  Website: www.saso.gov.sa  
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