. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/USA/1640 
6 July 2007  
 (07-2889) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
 
 
 
 
NOTIFICATION  
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  UNITED STATES  
If applicable, name of local government involved:    
2. Agency responsible:  Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 
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):  Root vegetables, tuber, bulb vegetable, chive, daylily, elegans hosta, 
fritillaria, garlic, kurrat, leek, onion, shallot, head and stem brassica 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected , to the extent relevant or practicable :  Any 
US trade partners  
5. Title, language and number of p ages of the notified document:   NOTICE.   Notice of 
Filing of Pesticide Petitions for Residues of Pesticide Chemicals in or on Various 
Commodities (available in English, 6 pages) 
6. Description of content:  This notice announces receipt of a petition proposing the 
establishment of a tolerance for residues of the fungicide fluopicolide in or on food 
commodities: Vegetable, root and tuber, group 1 at 0.2 ppm; vegetable, leaves of root and tuber, group 2 at 12.0 ppm; vegetable, bulb, group 3 at 5.0 ppm; chive, fresh leaves at 5.0 
ppm; chive, Chinese, fresh leaves at 5.0 ppm; dayl ily, bulb at 5.0 ppm; elegans hosta at 5.0 
ppm; fritillaria, bulb at 5.0 ppm; fritillaria, leaves at 5.0 ppm; garlic, serpent, bulb at 5.0 ppm; kurrat at 5.0 ppm; lady's leek at 5.0 ppm; leek, wild at 5.0 ppm; lily, bulb at 5.0 ppm; onion, Beltsville bunching at 5. 0 ppm; onion, Chinese, bulb at 5.0 ppm; onion, fresh at 5.0 
ppm; onion, macrostem at 5.0 ppm; onion, pearl at 5.0 ppm; onion, potato, bulb at 5.0 ppm; 
onion, tree, tops at 5.0 ppm; shallot, bulb at 5.0 ppm; shallot, fresh leaves at 5.0 ppm; and 
Brassica, head and stem, subgroup 5A at 5.0 ppm. 
7. Objective and rationale:  [X] food safety , [ ] animal health, [X] plant protection, 
[X] protect humans from animal/plant pest or  disease, [ ] protect territory from other 
damage from pests    
8. International standard, guideline or recommendation:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [ ] World Organization for Animal Health 
(OIE), [ ] International Plant Protection Convention, [X] None  
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the 
appropriate reference and briefly identify deviations:     G/SPS/N/USA/1640 
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  9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  Federal Register: 
27 June 2007 (Volume 72, Number  123) Notices Page 35237-35242; 
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-PEST/2007/June/Day-27/p12036.htm 
10. Proposed date of adoption:  N/A 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  This is a notice of regulat ory intent which may or may 
not result in further regulatory action. 
12. Final date for comments:  Comments must be received on or before 27 July 2007, and 
may be identified by docket number EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-0339. 
Agency or authority designated to handl e comments:  [ ] National notification 
authority, [X] National enquiry point, or  address, fax number and E-mail address (if 
available) of other body:   Registration Division, (7505P), Office of Pesticide Programs, 
Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001 
13. Texts available from:  [X] National notificati on authority, [ ] National enquiry point, 
or address, fax number and E-mail add ress (if available) of other body:   United States 
SPS National Notification Authority, USDA Fore ign Agricultural Service, International 
Regulations and Standards Division (IRSD), St op 1027, Washington D.C. 20250;  Tel:  +(1 
202) 720 1301;  Fax:  +(1 202) 690 0677;  E-mail:  fstsd@fas.usda.gov