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G/SPS/N/USA/2157/Add.1 
4 January 2013  
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
Addendum 
  
The following communication, received on 21 December 2012, is being circulated at the 
request of the Delegation of the United States of America. 
 
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Final Rule:  Importation of Live Swine, Swine Se men, Pork, and Pork Products;  Estonia, Hungary, 
Slovak Republic, and Slovenia (Docket No. APHIS-2008-0043) 
 APHIS is amending the regulations governing the importation of certain animal embryos and 
animal semen by removing one of the conditions for the importation of swine semen from the APHIS-
defined European CSF region, a region of Europe th at we recognize as a single low-risk region for 
classical swine fever.  We have determined that the 40-day holding period for swine semen and donor 
boars after the collection of swine semen is unn ecessary.  We are also announcing the addition of 
Estonia, Hungary, Slovak Republic, and Slovenia to  the APHIS-defined European CSF region, the 
addition of Estonia, Slovak Republic, and Slovenia to the list of regions APHIS considers free of 
swine vesicular disease (SVD), and the addition of Sl ovak Republic and Slovenia to the list of regions 
APHIS considers free of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) and rinderpest.  These actions will relieve 
some restrictions on the importation into the Unite d States of certain animals and animal products 
from those regions, while continuing to protect against the introduction of CSF, SVD, FMD, and rinderpest into the United States. 
 This notice is available in English at: 
 http://www.regulations.gov/#!docum entDetail;D=APHIS-2008-0043-0015  
 Federal Register Volume 77, Number 242 (Monday, 17 December 2012), Pages 74555-74559 
 This action is subsequent to a notice published in the Federal Register on 11 February 2011, a 
proposed rule (76 FR 7721-7731, Docket No. APHIS-2008-0043) to add Estonia, Hungary, Slovak Republic, and Slovenia to the APHIS-defined EU CSF re gion.  (NOTE:  In a final rule published on 
10 November 2011 [76 FR 70037-70040, Docket No . APHIS-2009-0093], APHIS changed the term 
"APHIS-defined EU CSF region" to "APHIS-defined  European CSF region".)  We also proposed to 
add Estonia, Slovak Republic, and Slovenia to the list  of regions we consider free of SVD and to add 
Slovak Republic and Slovenia to the list of regions considered free of FMD and rinderpest.  Finally, 
we proposed to amend Sec. 98.38 to remove th e 40-day post-collection holding period for swine 
semen and donor boars prior to export of swine se men from the APHIS-defined EU CSF region to the 
United States.  Except for semen collected from swin e in Denmark, Finland, the Republic of Ireland, 
Sweden, or the United Kingdom, we required that, be fore swine semen may be exported to the United 
States, the semen and donor boars be held at the semen collection center for at least 40 days following 
collection of the semen, and that the donor boars,  along with all other swine at the semen collection 
center, exhibit no clinical signs of CSF. G/SPS/N/USA/2157/Add.1 
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  This addendum concerns a: 
[ ] Modification of final date for comments 
[X] Notification of adoption, publication or entry into force of regulation 
[ ] 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 th e 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, th e comment period provided in the addendum may 
vary.)  
[ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the addendum to the notification and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) :  This rule is effective 16 January 2013. 
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [ ] National Notification Authority, 
[ ] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax num ber and e-mail address (if available) of other 
body: 
For further information contact:  Mr. Donald Link,  Import Risk Analyst, Regionalization Evaluation 
Services, National Center for Import and Export, VS, APHIS, 920 Main Campus Drive, Suite 200, 
Raleigh, NC 27606;  +(1 919) 855 7731.  
Text available from:  [X] National Notification Au thority, [ ] National Enquiry Point.  Address, 
fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body: 
United States SPS National Notification Authority, US DA Foreign Agricultural Service, International 
Regulations and Standards Division (IRSD), Stop 1014, Washington D.C. 20250;  Tel:  +1 (202) 720 1301;  Fax:  +1 (202) 720 0433;  E-ma il:  us.spsenquirypoint@fas.usda.gov  
 
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