G/SPS/N/USA/2136/Add.2
5 December 2014 
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English
 
  NOTIFICATION OF EMERGENCY MEASURES 
Addendum 
The following communication, received on 2 December 2014, is being circulated at the request of 
the Delegation of the United States of America. 
 
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 Final Rule: Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (Docket No. APHIS-2006-0074) 
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is adopting as a final rule, with changes, an 
interim rule that amended the regulations concerning the importation of animals and animal 
products to prohibit or restrict the importation of live birds and poultry (including hatching eggs) and bird and poultry products from regions where any subtype of highly pathogenic avian influenza 
(HPAI) is considered to exist. The interim rule also added restrictions concerning importation of 
live birds and poultry that have been moved through regions where HPAI is considered to exist, or that have been vaccinated for certain types of avian influenza. This final rule amends the interim 
rule to allow the importation of live zoological birds and poultry that have been vaccinated for 
avian influenza as part of an official program and under specific conditions as determined by the Administrator and to allow the importation of HPAI-resistant pigeons, doves, and other Columbiform species under certain conditions from regions where HPAI is considered to exist. This 
action will provide for the importation of certain zoological birds and poultry under specified 
conditions designed to minimize the risk of introducing HPAI into the United States. 
This notice is available in English at: http://www.regulations.gov/ #!documentDetail;D=APHIS-
2006-0074-0024  
Federal Register Vol. 79, No. 230, Monday 1 December, 2014, pages 70997-71007. 
In an interim rule effective and published in the Federal Register on 24 January 2011 (76 FR 4046-
4056, Docket No. APHIS-2006-0074), we amended the regulations in 9 CFR parts 93, 94, and 95 
(2) concerning the importation of animals and animal products to prohibit or restrict the importation of bird and poultry products from regions where highly pathogenic avian influenza 
(HPAI) is considered to exist by applying mitigations similar to those we use for Newcastle disease. 
(3) The interim rule included restrictions concerning importation of live birds and poultry (including 
hatching eggs) that have been vaccinated for cert ain types of avian influenza or that have been 
moved through regions where HPAI is considered to  exist. In addition, the interim rule updated 
cooking requirements to specifically include carcasse s, parts, or products of poultry or other birds 
from regions where HPAI is considered to exist. These actions were necessary to prevent the introduction of HPAI into the United States. We solicited comments concerning the interim rule for 
60 days ending 25 March 2011. We reopened the comment period (4) for 15 days ending 18 May 
2011, to give commenters more time to respond. We reopened the comment period a second time 
(5) for 30 days ending 12 July 2012, to solicit co mments on allowing the importation of pigeons, 
doves, and other Columbiform species from regions considered to have HPAI after establishing 
that importation of these species poses a low risk of introducing HPAI into the United States. We 
received a total of 19 comments during those three comment periods. G/SPS/N/USA/2136/Add.2 
 
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  This addendum concerns a: 
[ ] Modification of final date for comments 
[X] Modification of content and/or scope of previously notified regulation 
[ ] Withdrawal of regulation 
[ ] Change in period of application of measure 
[ ] Other:   
Agency or authority designated to handle co mments: [ ] National Notification Authority, 
[ ] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax nu mber and e-mail address (if available) of 
other body: 
Mr. Javier Vargas, Case Manager, National Import Export Services, Animal Health Policy and 
Programs, VS, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 38, Riverdale, MD 20737; Tel: +(1 301) 851 3300.  
Text(s) available from: [X] National Notificati on Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point. 
Address, fax number and e-mail addre ss (if available) of other body: 
United States SPS National Notification Authority, USDA 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-mail: us.spsenquirypoint@fas.usda.gov  
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