. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/ALB/56 
23 July 2012  
 (12-4022) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Notifying Member:  ALBANIA  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Protection 
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 from above :  National Enquiry 
Point. 
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [X], 5.7.1 [   ], other:   
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Olive oil and olive 
pomace oil. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Parliamentary 
Law "On the production, denomination and marketin g of olive oil and olive pomace oil" (7 
pages, available in Albanian) (Attached 23 pages of the tables of conformity No. 1 and No. 2).  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Parliamentary Law aims to establish rules for production, 
denomination and marketing of olive oil and o live pomace oil in the Republic of Albania, 
which it adapted to market require ments and International Standards.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
All physical and legal persons, domestic and foreign, who exercise manufacture and/or 
trading of olive oil in the territory of the Republ ic of Albania, are subj ect to the requirements 
of the Albanian law on food and labelling.  
8. Relevant documents:    
- Council Regulation (EC) No. 1234/2007 "Est ablishing a common organisation of 
 agricultural markets and on specific pr ovisions for certain agricultural products"; 
- Commission regulation (EC) No. 1019/ 2002 of 13 June 2002 "On marketing 
 standards for olive oil"; - Regulation (EC) No. 2003/2003 of the Europe an Parliament and of the Council of 
 13 October 2003 "Relating to fertilisers"; 
- Directive 2000/13/EC of the European  Parliament and of the council of 
 20 March 2000 "On the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to 
 the labelling, presentation and advertising of foodstuffs"; 
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  - Council Regulation (EC) No. 510/2006 of  20 March 2006 "On the protection of 
 geographical indications and designations of origin for agricultural products and 
 foodstuffs"; - Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 2568/91 of 11 July 1991 "On th e characte ristics 
 of olive oil and olive-residue oil and on the relevant methods of analysis"; 
- Regulation No. 136/66/EEC of the C ouncil of 22 September 1966 "On the 
 establishment of a common organisatio n of the market in oils and fat". 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    July 2012 
September 2012 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days after circulati on by WTO Secretariat 
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [ X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addres ses, if available of the other body:    
General Directorate of Standardization 
WTO Enquiry Point - ALBANIA Tel.:  + 355 42 22 62 55 Fax:  + 355 42 24 71 77 E-mail:  info@dps.gov.al  
Website:  http://www.dps.gov.al