G/SPS/N/SAU/168  
 
8 September 2015  
(15-4607)  Page: 1/2  
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  NOTIFICATION 
1. Notifying Member: KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA 
If applicable, name of local government involved:   
2. Agency responsible: General  Directorate of Nutrition, Ministry of Health 
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): Marketing breast milk substitutes (HS Code: 67.230) 
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: Executives Regulations (rules and decision) of the 
code for marketing breast milk substitutes  Language(s): Arabic and English  Number 
of pages: 15 and 9 
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2015/SPS/SAU/15_3578_00_e.pdf  
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2015/SPS/SAU/15_3578_00_x.pdf  
6. Description of content: Updating the executives regulations on use, handling, 
marketing, advertising, and distribution of breast milk alternatives. 
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:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g. title or serial  n u m b e r  o f  C o d e x  
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:   G/SPS/N/SAU/168 
 
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  9. Other relevant documents and language (s) in which these are available:  
- Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding (Arabic). 
- Sixty-Third World Health Assembly (Arabic). 
- International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes (Arabic). 
- Code Essentials 2+3 (Guidelines for Policy Makers on Implementing the International 
Code of Marketing of Breast milk Subs titutes and Subsequent WHA Resolutions). 
- Country Implementation of the Internatio nal Code of Marketing of Breast Milk 
Substitutes: Status Report 2011.   
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) : 1 March 2016 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Final date for comments: [X] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : 7 November 2015 
Agency or authority designated to hand le comments: [ ] National Notification 
Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address 
(if available) of other body:  
General Directorate of Nutrition, Ministry of Health 
Saudi Arabia P.O. Box: 5253, Riyadh 11422  
Tel: +(966 1) 1464 0811, Ext. 300 116 E-mail: abonayyan-b@moh.gov.sa 
13. Text(s) available from: [ ] National Notifi cation Authority, [X] National Enquiry 
Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:   
General Directorate of Nutrition, Ministry of Health  
Saudi Arabia P.O. Box: 5253, Riyadh 11422  
Tel: +(966 1) 1464 0811, Ext. 300 116 E-mail: abonayyan-b@moh.gov.sa