G/TBT/N/EU/198  
 
12 March 2014  
(14-1547)  Page: 1/2  
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:  eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/    
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:  This 
notification does not prejudge the legal status of the notified measure under the TBT 
Agreement or the nature of the measure itself.  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  All food 
from animal clones; this would include: meat and edible meat offal, dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included, 
products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included (if food or used for food 
production), animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes (if food or used for food production), preparations of meat, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates (if food or used for 
food production),  miscellaneous edible preparations (if obtained from animal clones if food 
or used for food production) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Proposal for a 
Council Directive on the placing on the market of food from clones (COM(2013) 893 final)  
(11 pages, in English).     
6. Description of content:  This proposal would provisionally prohibit the marketing of 
food from animal clones. The rules would only concern the clones themselves (not 
offspring or descendants). 
The proposed Directive would require Member States to report to the Commission on the 
operation of the Directive 5 years after its transposition. The Commission would then present a report on the application of the Directive to the Parliament and Council taking 
into account the national reports, scientific and technical progress particularly that 
relating to animal welfare aspects of cloning and international developments. Member States would be required to transpose the Directive into national law within one year 
after its entry into force. G/TBT/N/EU/198 
 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of animal welfare and public morals (i.e. consumer perception, 
ethical concerns related to cloning)  
8. Relevant documents:   None    
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    Mid 2015 Twentieth day from publication in the Official Journal of the EU (The provisions shall apply 
when transposed by member States, i.e. at 
the latest 12 months after the date of adoption) 
10. Final date for comments:  90 days from 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:  eu-tbt@ec.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:2013:0893:FIN:EN:PDF  
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2013:0893:FIN:FR:PDF  
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2013:0893:FIN:ES:PDF  
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2014/tbt/EEC/14_1254_00_e.pdf