G/SPS/N/EU/71  
 
4 April 2014  
(14-2098)  Page: 1/3  
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  NOTIFICATION 
1. Notifying Member: EUROPEAN UNION 
If applicable, name of local government involved:   
2. Agency responsible: European Commission, Health and Consumers Directorate-
General 
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): Cereals (HS Codes: 1001, 1002, 1003, 1004, 1005, 
1006, 1007, 1008), foodstuffs of animal origin (HS Codes: 0201, 0202, 0203, 0204, 
0205, 0206, 0207, 0208, 0209, 0210) and certain products of plant origin, including fruit 
and vegetables 
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: Annexes to "Draft Commission Regulation amending 
Annexes II, III and V to Regulation (EC) No 39 6/2005 of the European Parliament and of 
the Council as regards maximum residue levels for benfuracarb, carbaryl, carbofuran, 
carbosulfan, furathiocarb, procymidone and profenofos in or on certain products" (Text 
with EEA relevance)  Language(s): English  Number of pages: 12 
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2014/sps/EEC/14_1788_00_e.pdf  
6. Description of content: These notified annexes to the draft Regulation set proposed 
maximum residue levels (MRLs) for benfuracarb, carbaryl, carbofuran, carbosulfan, 
furathiocarb, procymidone and profenofos. MRLs for these substances are lowered in 
certain commodities. Lower MRLs are set after updating the limit of determinations and/or deleting old uses which are not authorised any more in the European Union or for which a human health concern may not be excluded. 
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. 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) Codex Maximum Residue Limits for carbaryl, 
carbofuran, carbosulfan and profenofos in some commodities. 
[ ] 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 G/SPS/N/EU/71 
 
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  Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?   
[ ] Yes   [X] No 
If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard: The European Food Safety Authority published a reasoned 
opinion on the review of the existing MRLs for carbofuran, carbosulfan, benfuracarb and furathiocarb and the setting of an import tolerance for carbofuran in cultivated 
mushrooms. Based on this opinion, Regulati on (EC) No 396/2005 should be amended 
accordingly. http://www.efsa.europa.eu/e n/efsajournal/doc/3559.pdf  (available in English) 
9. Other relevant documents and language (s) in which these are available:  
"Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 
23 February 2005 on maximum residue levels of pesticides in or on food and feed of 
plant and animal origin and amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC" 
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CONSLEG:2005R0396:20080410:EN:PDF  
"Commission Regulation (EU) No 899/2012 of 21 September 2012 amending Annexes II 
and III to Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council 
as regards maximum residue levels for acephate, alachlor, anilazine, azocyclotin, 
benfuracarb, butylate, captafol, carbaryl, carbofuran, carbosulfan, chlorfenapyr, 
chlorthal-dimethyl, chlorthiamid, cyhexatin, diazinon, dichlobenil, dicofol, dimethipin, diniconazole, disulfoton, fenitrothion, flufenzin, furathiocarb, hexaconazole, lactofen, mepronil, methamidophos, methoprene, monocrotophos, monuron, oxycarboxin, 
oxydemeton-methyl, parathion-methyl, phorat e, phosalone, procym idone, profenofos, 
propachlor, quinclorac, quintozene, tolylfluanid, trichlorfon, tridemorph and trifluralin in or on certain products and amending that Regulation by establishing Annex V listing 
default values" 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-con tent/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32012R0899  
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : 13 June 2014 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) : October 2014 
11. Proposed date of entry into force: [ ] Six months from date of publication , 
and/or  (dd/mm/yy) : October 2014 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Final date for comments: [X] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : 3 June 2014. While the Annex contains MRLs for a 
vast number of substances, comments are welcomed only on those MRLs that have been 
changed and are the subject of this notifica t i o n  ( t h e s e  c a n  b e  s e e n  i n  b o l d  i n  t h e  
document referred to under point 5). 
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:  
European Commission 
DG Health and Consumers, Unit G6 - Multilateral international relations 
Rue Froissart 101 
B 1049 Brussels Tel: +(32 2) 29 54263 
Fax: +(32 2) 29 98090 
E-mail: sps@ec.europa.eu G/SPS/N/EU/71 
 
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  13. Texts available from: [X] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry 
Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:   
European Commission  
DG Health and Consumers, Unit G6 - Multilateral international relations 
Rue Froissart 101 B 1049 Brussels 
Tel: +(32 2) 29 54263 
Fax: +(32 2) 29 98090 E-mail: sps@ec.europa.eu