G/TBT/N/EU/116  
 
 13 June 2013  
(13-3084)  Page: 1/3  
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
NOTIFICATION 
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Notifying Member:  EUROPEAN UNION  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  European Commission 
Name and address (including telephon e 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 :   
European Commission 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point 
Fax:  +(32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail:  mailto:eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/    
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [   ], 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):  Food, 
feed, plant reproductive material, plant protection products, animals, plants, and related 
products. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Proposal for a 
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 
 
(COM (2013) 265 final) (160 pages in English).     
6. Description of content:  The proposed regulation repeals Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 
on official controls and repeals and amends several other pieces of European Union 
legislation. 
The proposed regulation simplifies the overa ll legislative framework on official controls 
by integrating rules currently applicable in different areas (e.g. official controls on 
veterinary 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 EU, 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, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Food safety, feed safety, animal health, plant protection, protection of 
humans from animal/plant pests or diseases, protection of territory from damage from pests.  G/TBT/N/EU/116 
 
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  8. Relevant documents:    
To be repealed: Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2004:165:0001:0141:EN:PDF  
To be amended:  Directive 98/58/EC 
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:1998:221:0023:0027:EN:PDF  
Directive 1999/74/EC 
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:1999:007:0012:0012:EN:PDF  
Directive 2007/43/EC 
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2007:182:0019:0028:EN:PDF  
Directive 2008/119/EC 
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:010:0007:0013:EN:PDF  
Directive 2008/120/EC 
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:047:0005:0013:EN:PDF  
Directive 2009/128/EC 
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:309:0071:0086:EN:PDF  
Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2001:147:0001:0040:EN:PDF  
Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2003:268:0001:0023:EN:PDF  
Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2003:268:0029:0043:EN:PDF  
Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2005:003:0001:0044:EN:PDF  
Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2005:070:0001:0016:EN:PDF  
Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2007:189:0001:0023:EN:PDF  
Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:300:0001:0033:EN:PDF  
Regulation (EC) No 1099/2009 
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:303:0001:0030:EN:PDF  
Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:309:0001:0050:EN:PDF  
Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2012:343:0001:0029:EN:PDF  G/TBT/N/EU/116 
 
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9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    To be determined To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:   120 days from date of notification  
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [  ], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresse s, if available of the other body:    
European Commission 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point Fax:  + (32) 2 299 80 43 
E-mail:  mailto:eu-tbt@e c.europa.eu  
The text is available on the EU-TBT Website:  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/     
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2013:0265:FIN:ES:PDF  
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2013/TBT/EEC/13_2239_00_e.pdf