G/SPS/N/URY/57  
12 July 2019 
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
1. Notifying Member : URUGUAY  
If applicable, name of local government involved:  
2. Agency responsible : Ministerio de Ganadería, Agricultura y Pesca  (Ministry of Livestock, 
Agriculture and Fisheries)  
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) : Frozen ovine semen  
4. Regions  or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  
[X] All trading partners  
[ ] Specific regions or countries:  
5. Title of the notified document : MERCOSUR/GMC/RES . N° 18/19 "Requisitos 
zoosanitarios de los Estados Partes  para importación de semen ovino congelado 
(Derogación de la Resolución GMC 14 /13 y 54/14)"  (MERCOSUR Common Market Group 
(GMC) Resolution No. 18/19 "Animal health requirements of the States Parties for the 
importation of frozen ovine semen (Repeal of GMC Resolutions Nos. 14/13 and 54/14)") . 
Language(s) : Spanish and Portuguese Number of pages : 11 
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2019/SPS/URY/19_3899_00_s.pdf  
6. Description of content : The notified Resolution establishes the animal health 
requiremen ts of the States Parties for the importation of frozen ovine semen, and the 
model for the international veterinary certificate.  
7. Objective and rationale : [ ] food safety , [X] animal health , [ ] plant protection, 
[ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [ ] protect territory from 
other damage from pests.  
8. Is there a relevant international standard ? If so, identify the standard:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g. title or serial number of Codex 
standard or related text) : 
[X] World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. T errestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number) :  
Section 5, Chapter 5.7, of the Terrestrial Animal Health Code - 
http://www.oie.int/index.php?id=169&L=2&htmfile=sommaire.htm  
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention ( e.g. I SPM No. ): 
[ ] None  
Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?  
[X] Yes [ ] No G/SPS/N/URY/57  
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  If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:  
9. Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : 53 working days from the date of circulation 
of the notification  
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) : 60 working days from the date of 
circulation of the notification  
11. Proposed date of entry into force : [ ] Six months from date of publication, and/or 
(dd/mm/yy ): 60 working days from the date of circulation of the notification  
[ ] Trade facilitating measure  
12. Final date for comments : [X] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/o r (dd/mm/yy ): 10 September 2 019 
Agency or authority designated to handle comments : [X] National Notification 
Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point . Address, fax number and email address (if 
available) of other body:  
Unidad de Asuntos Internacionales  (International Affairs Unit)  
Ministerio de Ganadería, Agricultura y Pesca  (Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and 
Fisheries)  
Constituyente 1476, tercer piso  
Montevideo, Uruguay  
Tel.: (+598) 2412 6358  
Fax: (+598 ) 2410 7205  
Email : uai@mgap.gub.uy  
13. Text(s) available from : [X] National Notification Authority, [ ] National Enquiry 
Point . Address, fax number and email address (if available) of other body:  
Dirección General de Servicios Ganaderos , (Directorate -General of Livestock Services)  
Ministerio de Ganadería, Agricultura y Pesca  (Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and 
Fisheries)  
Ruta Nacional N° 8, km 17.100  
Montevideo, Uruguay  
Tel.: (+598) 2220 4000, Ext. 150104  
Fax: (+598) 2220 4000, Ext. 150 801 
Email : digesega@mgap.gub.uy