G/TBT/N/USA/1737/Add.2  
 
13 June 2022  
(22-4577) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
 
NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication , dated  13 June 2022, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of the United States of America . 
 
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Title:  Proposition 12, Farm Animal Confinement  
 
Reason for Addendum:  
[ ] Comment period changed - date:   
[ ] Notified measure adopted - date:  
[ ] Notified measure published - date:  
[ ] Notified measure enters into force - date:  
[ ] Text of final measure available from1:  
[ ] Notified measure withdrawn or revoked - date:  
Relevant symbol if measure re -notified:   
[X] Content or scope of notified measure changed  and text available from1:  
http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/ahfss/regulations.html  
https://members.wto.org/crna ttachments/2022/TBT/USA/modification/22_4060_00_e.
pdf 
New deadline for comments (if applicable):  24 June 2022  
[ ] Interpretive guidance issued and text available from1:  
[ ] Other:  
 
Description:  California's Department of Food and Agriculture, Animal Health and Food Safety 
Services is proposing to adopt new Chapter 10 (commencing with section 1320) of Division 2 of Title 
3 of the California Code of Regulations to implement Health and Safety Code sections 25990 through 
25994, Farm Animal Cruelty, which mandates farm animal confinement standards and directs the 
Department and the Department of Public Heal th to jointly promulgate regulations to implement the 
provisions for specified farm animals and the sale of specified products derived from them.  
The Department will accept written comments on the proposed changes between Friday 10 June 
2022 and Friday 24 June 2022.  
The proposal pertains to the action described in the Informative Digest published in the California 
Regulatory Notice Register on 28 May 2021 [ Notice File No. Z2021 -0518-22, Register 2021, No. 22 -
Z, page 594], relating to the Department's proposed regulations to implement, interpret, or make 
specific the requirements relating to the confinement of egg -laying hens, veal calves, and breeding 
 
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  pigs, and/or selling specified whole veal meat, whole pork meat, shell eggs, and liquid eggs in 
California in accordance with sections 25990, 25991, 25992, 25993.1, and 25994  of California's 
Health and Safety Code.  
The proposed modifications are necessary to further clarify the intent of the regulatory text and to 
make the requirements consistent throughout the Ch apter. All documents which are being 
incorporated by reference into modified proposed text were listed in the original Notice File (at 
https://www .cdfa.ca.gov/ahfss/pdfs/regulations/AnimalConfinement1stNoticePropReg_05252021.p
df) under Materials Relied Upon (page 6), their necessity was described in the Initial Statement of 
Reasons (at 
https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/ahfss/pdfs/regulations/AnimalConfinementISOR_05252021.pdf ) under 
each section where documents are referenced, and have been available to the public upon request. 
No new documents of reference are in cluded in this modified proposed text.  
All comments received by 24 June 2022 and pertaining to the indicated changes will be reviewed 
and responded to by the Department as part of the compilation of the final rulemaking file. Please 
limit your comments to the modifications to the text.  
Materials regarding this proposal can be found by accessing the following Internet address: 
http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/ahfss/regulations.html . 
WTO Members and their st akeholders are asked to submit comments via e -mail to the USA TBT 
Enquiry Point at usatbtep@nist.gov  by or before 4pm Eastern Time  on 24 June 2022. Comments 
received within the comment period by the USA TBT Enquiry Point from  WTO Members and their 
stakeholders will be shared directly with the California Department of Food and Agriculture ( CDFA ) 
per the instructions included on page one (1) of the file " Second 15 -day Comment Period 
Documents ". 
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