G/SPS/N/EU/43  
 
17 May 2013  
(13-2586)  Page: 1/3  
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
 NOTIFICATION 
1. Notifying Member:  EUROPEAN UNION 
If applicable, name of local government involved:    
2. Agency responsible:  European Commission, Health and Consumers Directorate-
General 
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):  Multiple products 
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:  Draft Regulation of the European Parliament and of 
the Council on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health, plant 
reproductive material and plant protection products  Language(s):  English  Number 
of pages:  160 
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2013/sps/EEC/13_1929_00_e.pdf  
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2013/sps/EEC/13_1929_00_f.pdf  
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2013/sps/EEC/13_1929_00_s.pdf  
6. Description of content:  The proposed regulation repeals Regulation (EC) 
No 882/2004 on official controls as well as repealing and amending several other pieces of European Union legislation. 
The proposed regulation simplifies the overal l legislative framework on official controls 
by integrating rules currently applicable in different areas (e.g. official controls on residues, import controls and plant health controls) into one regulation. 
The proposed rules aim to reinforce the safe ty of the agri-food chain by strengthening 
the enforcement mechanisms of the relevant EU rules and by enabling a more efficient 
implementation of harmonised official controls, which apply in the European Union, to animals, food and feed, plants, seeds and plant reproductive materials. 
The consolidation of controls also includes a set of common and comprehensive rules 
applicable to import controls on animals and relevant goods from third countries which consolidate and simplify the existing disparate rules. 
7. Objective and rationale:  [X] food safety, [X] animal health, [X] plant 
protection, [X] protect humans from animal /plant pest or disease, [X] protect 
territory from other damage from pests.    G/SPS/N/EU/43 
 
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  8. Is there a relevant international st andard?  If so, identify the standard:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or seri al number of Codex 
standard or related text)   
[ ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number)    
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number)    
[X] None 
Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?   
 [ ] Yes   [ ] No 
 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:  To be 
amended: 
 Directive 98/58/EC; 
 Directive 1999/74/EC; 
 Directive 2007/43/EC; 
 Directive 2008/119/EC; 
 Directive 2008/120/EC; 
 Directive 2009/128/EC; 
 Regulation (EC) No 999/2001; 
 Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003; 
 Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003; 
 Regulation (EC) No 1/2005; 
 Regulation (EC) No 396/2005; 
 Regulation (EC) No 834/2007; 
 Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009;  
 Regulation (EC) No 1099/2009; 
 Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009; 
 Regulation (EC) No 1151/2012; 
 Regulation laying down provisions for the management of expenditure relating to the 
food chain, animal health and animal welfar e, and relating to plant health and plant 
reproductive material (2013) 
(available in English) 
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) :  To be determined. 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) :  To be determined. 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  [ ] Six months from date of publication , 
and/or  (dd/mm/yy) :  On the twentieth day following that of its publication in the 
Official Journal of the European Unio n. Transitional periods are foreseen. 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Final date for comments:  [ ] Sixty days  from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) :  120 days 
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:   
European Commission 
DG Health and Consumers, Unit G6-Multilateral International Relations 
Rue Froissart 101, B-1049 Brussels Tel: (+32 2) 295 99 22 
Fax: (+32 2) 299 80 90 
E-mail: sps@ec.europa.eu G/SPS/N/EU/43 
 
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  13. Texts available from:  [X] National Notifi cation Authority, [X] National Enquiry 
Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:    
European Commission  
DG Health and Consumers, Unit G6-Multilateral International Relations 
Rue Froissart 101, B-1049 Brussels Tel: (+32 2) 295 99 22 
Fax: (+32 2) 299 80 90 
E-mail: sps@ec.europa.eu