G/SPS/N/NZL/509
31 October 2014
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English
 
  NOTIFICATION 
1. Notifying Member: NEW ZEALAND 
If applicable, name of local government involved:   
2. Agency responsible: Ministry for Primary Industries 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item  number(s) as specified in national 
schedules deposited with the WTO; IC S numbers should be provided in 
addition, where applicable): Vegetables; fruit; animal and other food products. 
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: Proposals to Amend the New Zealand (Maximum 
Residue Limits of Agricultural Compounds) Food Standards 2013 - Amendment No. 2 Language(s): English  Number of pages: 24 
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2014/sps/NZL/14_4859_00_e.pdf  
6. Description of content: The document contains technical details on proposals to 
amend the New Zealand (Maximum Residue Limits of Agricultural Compounds) Food 
Standards 2014.  
MPI proposes to add the following new MRLs to the MRL Standards:  - 4 mg/kg in beetroot for clopyralid when used as a herbicide; 
- 0.05 mg/kg in grapes and 0.01(*) mg/kg wi nter squash for cyflufenamid when used 
as a fungicide; 
- 0.01(*) mg/kg in maize for fluthiacet -methyl when used as a herbicide; 
- 0.05 mg/kg in bulb onions and 0.05 mg/kg in  citrus for spinetoram when used as an 
insecticide. 
(*) indicates that the maximum residue limit has been set at or about the limit of 
analytical quantification. 
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.   G/SPS/N/NZL/509 
 
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  8. Is there a relevant international st andard? If so, identify the standard:  
[X] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or serial number of Codex 
standard or related text)  Pesticide Residues in Food and Feed: CAC/GL 33-1999; 
CAC/GL 41-1993; CAC/GL 84-2012; CAC/MISC 5-1993. 
[ ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number)    
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number)    
[ ] None Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?   
[X] Yes   [ ] No 
If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:   
9. Other relevant documents and language (s) in which these are available: Not 
applicable.   
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : To be determined. 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) : To be determined. 
11. Proposed date of entry into force: [ ] Six months from date of publication , 
and/or  (dd/mm/yy) : To be determined. 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Final date for comments: [X] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : 30 December 2014 
Agency or authority designated to hand le comments: [X] National Notification 
Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address 
(if available) of other body:  
Mrs Sally Jennings, Coordinator,  
SPS New Zealand, PO Box 2526, Wellington, New Zealand 
Tel: +(64 4) 894 0431 Fax: +(64 4) 894 0733 
E-mail: sps@mpi.govt.nz 
Website: http://www.biosecurity.govt.nz/sps/tr ansparency/notifications/index.htm  
13. Text(s) available from: [X] National Notifi cation Authority, [X] National Enquiry 
Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:   
Mrs Sally Jennings, Coordinator,  
SPS New Zealand, PO Box 2526, Wellington, New Zealand  
Tel: +(64 4) 894 0431 
Fax: +(64 4) 894 0733 E-mail: sps@mpi.govt.nz 
Website: http://www.biosecurity.govt.nz/sps/tr ansparency/notifications/index.htm