G/SPS/N/USA/2501/Add.1  
 
1 May 2013  
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
 NOTIFICATION 
Addendum 
The following communication, received on 1 May 2013, is being circulated at the request of 
the Delegation of the United States of America. 
 
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 Final Rule: Determination of Swine Vesicular Disease Status of Certain Regions in Italy (Docket 
No. APHIS-2012-0094) 
 The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is advising the public that we have determined that the Italian regions of Lombardi a, Emilia-Romagna, Veneto, and Piemonte and the 
autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano are free of swine vesicular disease. Based on an 
assessment of the animal health status of these ar eas, which we made available to the public for 
review and comment through a previous notice of availability, the Administrator has determined that the importation of pork or pork products fr om these areas presents a low risk of introducing 
swine vesicular disease into the United States. This determination is based on our review of the 
documentation submitted by the Government of Ital y in support of its request and the findings of 
our own animal health risk evaluation. 
 This notice is available in English at: 
http://www.regulations.gov/#!docu mentDetail;D=APH IS-2012-0094-0004 . 
 Federal Register, Vol. 78, No. 81, Friday, 26 April 2013, 24670-24671. 
 This notice is subsequent to the one published on 18 December 2012, in the Federal 
Register (77 FR 74787-74788, Docket No. APHIS-2012-0094), a notice of availability in which we 
announced the availability for review and comment of our evaluation of the SVD status of the Italian regions of Lombardia, Emilia-Romagna,  Veneto, and Piemonte and the autonomous 
provinces of Trento and Bolzano. Based on this evaluation, we determined that the surveillance, 
prevention, and control measures implemented by Italy in the four regions and two autonomous 
provinces under consideration as being free of SVD are sufficient to minimize the likelihood of introducing SVD into the United States via imports of SVD-susceptible species or products. 
However, because of the regions' and autonomous provinces' proximity to or trading relationships 
w i t h  S V D - a f f e c t e d  r e g i o n s ,  w e  f o u n d  t h a t  i t  i s  necessary to impose additional restrictions in 
accordance with § 94.13 on the importation of pork or pork products from the areas of Italy under 
consideration for being declared free of SVD. We so licited comments on the notice of availability 
for 60 days ending on 19 February 2013. We rece ived one comment on our evaluation, from the 
European Commission's Directorate-General for Health and Consumers. 
This addendum concerns a: 
[ ] Modification of final date for comments 
[X] Notification of adoption, publication or entry into force of regulation 
[ ] 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:    G/SPS/N/USA/2501/Add.1 
 
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  Comment period:  (If the addendum extends the scope of the previously notified 
measure in terms of products and/or potent ially affected Members, a new deadline for 
receipt of comments should be provided, norm ally of at least 60 calendar days.  Under 
other circumstances, such as extension of or iginally announced final date for comments, 
the comment period provided in the addendum may vary.)  
[ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the addendum to the notification and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) :  This Rule is effective 28 May 2013. 
Agency or authority designated to handle comme nts:  [ ] National Notification Authority, 
[ ] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of 
other body: 
Dr. Chip Wells, Senior Staff Ve terinarian, Regionalization Evaluation Services, Sanitary Trade 
Issues Team, National Center for Import and Export, VS, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 38, 
Riverdale, MD 20737-1231; +(1 301) 851 3089.  
Text available from:  [X] National Notification Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point.  
Address, fax number and e-mail addre ss (if available) of other body: 
United States SPS National Notification Authority, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, International 
Regulations and Standards Division (IRSD), Stop 1014, Washington D.C. 20250; Tel: +(1 202) 
720 1301; Fax: +(1 202) 720 0433; E-mail: us.spsenquirypoint@fas.usda.gov  
 
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