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G/SPS/N/TPKM/264 
29 August 2012  
 (12-4663) 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION OF EMERGENCY MEASURES 
 
1. Notifying Member:  THE SEPARATE CUSTOMS TERRITORY OF TAIWAN, 
PENGHU, KINMEN AND MATSU  
If applicable, name of local government involved:     
2. Agency responsible:  Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health (DOH), 
Executive Yuan 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item numbe r(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO;  ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where 
applicable):  Prepackaged foods 
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 Regulations Governing the Label of Country of 
Origin for Prepackaged Foods  Language(s):  English  Number of pages:  2 
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2012/sps/TPKM/12_3369_00_e.pdf  
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2012/sps/TPKM/12_3369_00_x.pdf  
6. Description of content:  Prepackaged foods shall conspicuously indicate country of origin 
or letters with the same meaning in Chinese, except when the compan y labelled in Chinese 
is expressly represented as the manufacturer and its address is sufficient to show the country of origin.  Prepackaged foods containi ng beef and cattle edible offals shall also 
indicate the country of origin of the beef and cattle edible offals or letters with the same 
meaning. 
7. Objective and rationale:  [X] food safety, [ ] animal health, [ ] plant protection, 
[ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [ ] protect territory from other 
damage from pests.    
8. Nature of the urgent problem(s) and reason for urgent action:  Under the premise of 
food safety, to provide consumers with cl early identified information, require the 
manufacturers to label country of origin of beef  and cattle edible offals or letters with the 
same meaning.  Some consumers, who wish to select veterinary drug-free beef or cattle 
edible offals, could use the information in the food label to identify items of their choice. G/SPS/N/TPKM/264 
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  9. Is there a relevant international standard ?  If so, identify the standard:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g. title or serial 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:    
10. Other relevant documents and language (s) in which these are available:   "Regulations 
Governing the Label of Country of Origin for Prepackaged Foods" (DOH Food No. 1011301974, 15 August 2012) is available in English from the National Notification 
Authority, National Enquiry Point, and Depa rtment of Health.  The standard will be 
published in the Official Government Gaze tte when adopted.  The full text may be 
downloaded from the following website:  http://www.fda.gov.tw/eng/index.aspx  and 
http://www.doh.gov.tw/EN2006/index_EN.aspx    
11. Date of entry into force ( dd/mm/yy )/period of application (as applicable):  
Mid-September 2012       
[ ] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Agency or authority designated to handl e comments:  [ ] National Notification 
Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if 
available) of other body:   
Food and Drug Administration  
Department of Health No.161-2, Kunyang St, Nangang District, Taipei City 115-61, Taiwan  Tel:  +(886 2) 27878000 ext. 7343 
Fax:  +(886 2) 26531062 
E-mail:  xenia26@fda.gov.tw 
13. Texts available from:  [X] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry 
Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:   
Food and Drug Administration 
Department of Health No.161-2, Kunyang St, Nangang District, Taipei City 115-61, Taiwan  
Tel:  +(886 2) 2787-8000 ext. 7343 
Fax:  +(886 2) 26531062 E-mail:  xenia26@fda.gov.tw