G/SPS/N/JPN/471/Add.4  
 
4 Aug ust 2017  
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication, received on 3 August 2017, is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of Japan . 
 
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Notification of updating the Annex of the adopted Animal Health Requirements for raw milk/milk 
products to be exported to Japan  
As was announced in G/SPS/N/JPN/471/Add.1 dated 14 November 2016, the revised Article 45 of 
"the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Act on Domestic Animal Infectious Disease 
Control" will enter into force on 1 Nov ember 2017, and raw milk/milk products will be added to the 
list of items subject to animal health quarantine.  
In G/SPS/N/JPN/471/Add.2 dated 16 February 2017, MAFF proposed the draft Animal Health 
Requirements to set out detailed import conditions includi ng required statements in the health 
certificate to be applied to raw milk/milk products to be imported into Japan from 1 November 
2017(*). 
In G/SPS/N/JPN/471/Add.3 dated 1 May 2017, MAFF proposed the adopted Animal Health 
Requirements for raw milk/milk pr oducts to be exported to Japan and the model format of the 
health certificate.  
This is to notify Ukraine and Puerto Rico are added on Listed countries of the Annex of the adopted 
Animal Health Requirements:  
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2017/SPS/JPN/17_3487_00_e.pdf  
(*) Note:  
Raw milk/milk products arriving in Japan on and after 1 November 2017, including products exported from 
exporting countries before 1 November 2017, will need to be accompanied by the health certificate issued by 
the competent authority of the exporting country in accordance with the AHRs.  
This addendum concerns a:  
[ ] Modification of final date for comments  
[ ] Notification of adop tion, publication or entry into force of regulation  
[X] Modification of content and/or scope of previously notified draft regulation  
[ ] Withdrawal of proposed regulation  
[ ] Change in proposed date of adoption, publication or date of entry into force  
[ ] Other:  
Comment period: (If the addendum extends the scope of the previously notified 
measure in terms of products and/or potentially affected Members, a new deadline for 
receipt of comments should be provided, normally of at least 60 calendar days. U nder 
other circumstances, such as extension of originally announced final date for comments, 
the comment period provided in the addendum may vary.)  G/SPS/N/JPN/471/Add.4  
 
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  [ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the addendum to the notification and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) : Not appl icable  
Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [  ] National Notification Authority, 
[X] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of 
other body:  
International Trade Division  
Economic Affairs Bureau  
Ministry of Foreign Affairs  
Fax: +(81 3) 5501 8343  
E-mail: enquiry@mofa.go.jp  
Text(s) available from: [  ] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. 
Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other body:  
International Trade Divisi on 
Economic Affairs Bureau  
Ministry of Foreign Affairs  
Fax: +(81 3) 5501 8343  
E-mail: enquiry@mofa.go.jp  
 
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