G/SPS/N/CHE/82/Add.7  
30 March 2023  
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication, received on 30 March 2023, is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of Switzerland . 
 
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Amendment of Annex 1 to the Ordinance on phytosanitary products (OPPh)  
The Ordinance on phytosanitary products (RS 916.161, OPPh) was notified in document 
G/SPS/N/CHE/82 of 19 December 2019. The OPPh establishes conditions for the placing on the market 
of phytosanitary products. Annex 1 to the OPPh contains a list of active s ubstances that may be used 
as phytosanitary products in Switzerland. A new substance is included in this Annex if, once the 
application accompanying the request has been examined, it meets the conditions established in 
Article 5. The following amendment of  the OPPh includes one safener (cyprosulfamide) and 
eight macroorganisms ( Anagyrus vladimiri , Anastatus bifasciatus , Cephalonomia tarsalis , 
Encarsia  citrina , Exochomus quadripustulatus , Heterorhabditis downesi , Pronematus ubiquitus , 
Sphaerophoria rueppelli i) into the Annex 1. One macroorganism ( Heterorhabditis sp) is deleted for 
formal reasons. For several active ingredients (paraffin oil, copper, fish oil), formal changes (such as 
the deletion of obsolete variants that no longer exist) are made. For the ac tive substance fish oil, 
the classification "low -risk substance" is also added. These formal adjustments are in alignement with 
EU decisions and regulations. Details are stipulated in the attached draft document.  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2023/SPS/CHE/23_8530_00_f.pdf  
This addendum concerns a:  
[ ] Modification of final date for comments  
[ ] Notification of adoption, publication or entry into force of regulation  
[X] Modification of content and/or scope of previously notified draft regulation  
[ ] Withdrawal of proposed regulation  
[ ] Change in proposed date of adoption, publication or date of 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.)  
[X] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the addendum to the notification and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) : 29 May 2023  G/SPS/N/CHE/82/Add.7  
 
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  Agency o r authority designated to handle comments: [X]  National Notification Authority, 
[ ] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other 
body:  
State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO  
Holzikofenweg 36, 3003 Berne  
E-mail: sps@seco.admin.ch  
Text(s) available from: [X]  National Notification Authority, [  ] National Enquiry Point. 
Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other body:  
State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO  
Holzikofenweg 36, 3003 Berne  
E-mail: sps@seco.admin.ch  
 
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