G/TBT/N/ALB/94  
9 January 2020  
(20-0217) 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:  ALBANIA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development  
Name and address (including telephone 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:   
National Enquiry Point  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Labeling 
of Animal Food  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Draft Decision 
on "Approval of Rules For Animal Food Labeling; food products which contain Genetically 
Modified Organisms" (22 page(s), in Albanian)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Decision lays down rules for the labeling of:  
1. animal food used for feeding;  
2. GMOs used as animal food;  
3. animal food containing or consisting of GMOs;  
4. animal food produced from GMOs;  
This Decision is not applicable to the labeling of animal food: 
1. used for personal consumption and not intended to be placed on the market;  
2. containing feedstuffs consisting of or produced from GMOs not exceeding 0,9 % 
in the animal food, provided that such presence is inevitable or technically 
inevitable. In order  to prove that the presence of these foodstuffs is inevitable or 
ethnically inevitable, operators must be able to present to the competent control 
authorities the evidence and facts that they have taken the appropriate measures 
to avoid the presence of suc h foodstuffs;  
3. medicated  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  The aim of this decision is to define the requirements of the labeling for 
animal food, in order to ensure a high level of food safety for the animals, the protection 
of public health, providing appropriate information to users and consumers and for an 
effective functioning of the internal market.  G/TBT/N/ALB/94  
 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
• REGULATION (EC) No 767/2009 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE 
COUNCIL of 13 July 2009 on the placing on the market and use of feed, amending 
European Parliament and Council Regulation  (EC) No 1831/2003 and repealing 
Council Directive 79/373/EEC, Commission Directive 80/511/EEC, Council 
Directives 82/471/EEC, 83/228/EEC, 93/74/EEC, 93/113/EC and 96/25/EC and 
Commission Decision 2004/217/EC  
• Regulation (EC) No 1829/2003 of the European Pa rliament and of the Council of 
22 September 2003 on genetically modified food and feed  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  Not decided yet  
Proposed date of entry into force:  Not decided yet  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
General Directorate of Standardization  
WTO Enquiry Point - Albania  
Tel.: +355 42 22 62 55  
Fax: +355 42 24 71 77  
E-mail: info@dps.gov.al  
http://www.dps.gov.al