G/SPS/N/NZL/495  
 
8 August 2013  
(13-4233)  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. 2) the New Zealand 
(Maximum Residue Limits of Agricultural Compounds) Food Standards 2012  
Language(s): English  Number of pages: 20 
"http://www.foodsafety.govt.nz/elibrary/in dustry/register-list-mrl-agricultural-
compounds.htm " 
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2013/sps/NZL/13_3021_00_e.pdf  
6. Description of content: The document contains technical details on proposals to 
amend the New Zealand (Maximum Residue Limits of Agricultural Compounds) Food Standards 2012. 
MPI proposes to add the following new MRLs to the MRL Standards:  
 20 mg/kg for chlorantraniliprole when us ed as an insecticide on baby leafy 
vegetables and amend the current entry for leafy vegetables to leafy vegetables 
(except baby leaf); 
 0.05 mg/kg for isopyrazam when used as a fungicide on pumpkins and squash; 
 1.0 mg/kg in citrus and 0.02 in pome fruits for spirotetramat when used as in 
insecticide on citrus and pome fruits and remove 0.02 mg/kg for apples; 
 0.01(*) mg/kg on wheat grain, 0.01(*) mg/kg in milk, 0.01(*) mg/kg in muscle, 
0.01(*) mg/kg in fat and 0.05 mg/kg in edible  offal for sulfoxaflor when used as an 
insecticide on wheat; 
 0.01(*) mg/kg for tau-fluvalinate in milk, 0.01(*) mg/kg in mammalian meat, 
0.01(*) mg/kg in edible offal and 0.02 mg/kg in mammalian fat when used as an insecticide on cereals, clover seed crops and oil seed rape; and 
 5 mg/kg for thiomethoxam when used as an insecticide on leafy vegetables. 
MPI proposes to exempt the following substance from the MRL Standards: 
Exempt formic acid from MRLs when used as pesticide on bee colonies. 
NOTE: (*) indicates that the maximum residue limit has been set at or about the limit of 
analytical quantification. G/SPS/N/NZL/495 
 
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  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:  
[X] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or serial number of Codex 
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)    
[ ] None 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:   
9. Other relevant documents and language (s) in which these are available:     
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : 3 August 2013 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) : 31 July 2013 
11. Proposed date of entry into force: [ ] Six months from date of publication , 
and/or  (dd/mm/yy) : 5 August 2013 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Final date for comments: [ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : Not applicable 
Agency or authority designated to hand le comments: [X] National Notification 
Authority, [X] 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@mpi.govt.nz 
13. Texts available from: [X] National Notification Authority, [X] 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@mpi.govt.nz