. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/EEC/347 
23 July 2009  
 (09-3618) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
 
 
 
NOTIFICATION  
 
1. Notifying Member:  EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES  
If applicable, name of local government involved:    
2. Agency responsible:  Commission of the European Communities. Health & Consumers 
Directorate-General, Directorate D – Animal Health and Welfare 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where 
applicable):  Live crustaceans intended for further farming (HS Code 0306) and fish (HS 
Code 0301 10), molluscs (HS Code 0307) a nd crustaceans (HS Code 0306) intended for 
ornamental purposes 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: 
[   ] All trading partners, or [ X ] Specific regions or countries:  United States and member countries of the 
Secretariat of the Pacific Community SPC that are not members of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE)  
5. Title of the notified document:  "Draft Commission Regulation amending Commission 
Regulation (EC) No 1251/2008 as regards the list of third countries and territories from 
which crustaceans and ornamental aquatic animals may be imported into the Community"  
Language:  English  Number of pages:  8 
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2009/sps/EEC/09_2548_00_e.pdf  
6. Description of content:  By means of this draft Regulation, an update of the countries 
authorised to export live crustaceans intended for further farming and certain ornamental 
aquatic animals to the Community is proposed as follows:  
− the list of third countries that can export cer tain ornamental aquatic animals including 
in that list countries members of the SPC that are not members of the World 
Organization for Animal Health (OIE).  Those countries and territories are:  Cook Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Isla nds, Nauru, Niue, French Polynesia, Papua New Guinea, 
Pitcairn Islands, Palau, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu , Wallis and Futuna 
and Samoa;  and 
− the list of third countries authorized to expor t live crustaceans for further farming, that 
would now include the United States. G/SPS/N/EEC/347 
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  7. Objective and rationale:  [   ] food safety, [ X ] 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 stan dard?  If so, identify the standard:  
[   ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or serial number of Codex standard 
or related text)    
[ X ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number)     
[   ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g.  ISPM N°)     
[   ] 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:  Commission 
Regulation (EC) No 1251/2008 of 12 Dece mber 2008 implementing Council Directive 
2006/88/EC as regards conditions and certification requirements for the placing on the market and the import into the Community of aquaculture animals and products thereof and 
laying down a list of vector species. 
This text can be found in the following link: 
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/Result.do?T1=V2&T2=2008&T3 =1251&RechType=RECH_naturel&Submi
t=Search  
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) :  30 June 2009 
Proposed date of publication ( dd/mm/yy) :  1 October 2009 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  [   ] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) :  1 October 2009 
[ X ] 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 handle comments:  [ X ] National Notification 
Authority, [   ] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and E-mail address (if 
available) of other body:    
sps@ec.europa.eu 
13. Texts available from:  [ X ] National Notification Authority, [   ] National Enquiry 
Point.  Address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:    
sps@ec.europa.eu