G/SPS/N/NZL/504  
 
20 June 2014  
(14-3577)  Page: 1/2  
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 (MPI) 
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 (No. 1) the New Zealand 
(Maximum Residue Limits of Agricultural Compounds) Food Standards 2014  
Language(s): English  Number of pages: 2 
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:  
 0.5 mg/kg in bulb onions for ametoctradin when used as a fungicide; 
 0.01 mg/kg in cereal grain, 0.15 mg/kg in mammalian meat, 0.4 mg/kg in edible 
offal and 0.04 mg/kg in milk for bixafen when used as a fungicide in cereals; 
 1.5 mg/kg in citrus and beans for boscalid when used as a fungicide; 
 0.1 mg/kg in field tomatoes, 0.01 mg/kg in potatoes and bulb onions, 0.01 mg/kg in 
mammalian meat, fat and edible offal for cyantraniliprole when used as an 
insecticide in bulb onions, potatoes, field tomatoes and fodder brassicas; 
 0.1 mg/kg in pome fruit for etoxazole when used as a miticide; 
 0.1 mg/kg in wheat grain, 0.3 mg/kg in barley grain, 0.01 mg/kg in mammalian 
meat, 0.03 mg/kg in edible offal, 0.05 mg/kg in mammalian fat, 0.005 mg.kg in 
milk, 0.02 mg/kg in apple for fluxapyroxad when used as a fungicide in barley, wheat crops and apples; 
 0.2 mg/kg in grapes for imidacloprid when used as an insecticide; 
 0.01 mg/kg in winter squash and pumpkins for lambda-cyhalothrin when used as an 
insecticide; 
 0.01 mg/kg in potatoes for lufenuron when used as an insecticide; 
 0.4 mg/kg in beans, 0.7 mg/kg in citrus for pyraclostrobin when used as a fungicide; 
and 
 0.7 mg/kg in blueberries for spirotetramat when used as an insecticide. 
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/504 
 
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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) CAC/MRL2 for Ametoctradin, Boscalid, Etoxazole, 
Fluxapyroxad, Imidacioprid, Lufenuron, and Pyraclostrobin 
[ ] 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  for the following: Bixafen, Cyantranli prole, Lambda-cyhalothrin, Lufenuron, 
Spirontetramat  
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: Not applicable for the above compounds: Bixafen, 
Cyantranliprole, Lambda-cyhalothrin, Lufenuron, Spirontetramat 
9. Other relevant documents and language (s) in which these are available:     
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : To be confirmed. 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) : To be confirmed. 
11. Proposed date of entry into force: [ ] Six months from date of publication , 
and/or  (dd/mm/yy) : To be confirmed. 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Final date for comments: [ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : 18 July 2014 
Agency or authority designated to hand le comments: [X] National Notification 
Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address 
(if available) of other body:   
13. Texts available from: [X] National Notification Authority, [ ] 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@maf.govt.nz Website: http://www.maf.govt.nz/biosecurity/ sps/transparency/notifications/index.htm