. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/BHR/211 
19 October 2010 
 (10-5399) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN
 
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:  Standards & Metrology Directorate (BSMD) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e -mail and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above : 
Ministry of Industry and Commerce P.O. Box:  5479, Kingdom of Bahrain Tel.:  +973 17574880 
Fax:  +973 17530730 
E-mail:  bsmd@moic.gov.bh
 
Website:  http://www.moic.gov.bh  
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):  General requirements for 
genetically modified processe d food and feed (ICS 67). 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  General requirements 
for genetically modi fied processed food and feed, (11 page s in Arabic, 9 pages in English). 
6. Description of content:  This draft technical regulation spec ifies the requirements stated in 
the Gulf standard (GSO) "General requirement s for genetically modified processed food and 
feed" under clauses 4/2 and 7 (labelling and packaging) as mandatory requirements.  It 
specifies that the product shall be packed in suitable, clean, sufficien tly strong package which 
has not been used previously and have no cont aminating effect on the product or its quality.  
It also describes label requireme nts on the containers such as: 
– If the product consists of more  than one ingredient, the wo rds (genetically modified) 
or (produced from genetically modified, name  of the ingredient) shall appear clearly 
and easily to be read in the list of ingr edients in parentheses immediately following 
the ingredient concerned with same  font size and different colour. 
– If the ingredient is designated by the name of a category, the words (contains 
genetically modified, name of organism) or  (contains, name of ingredient, produced 
from genetically modified, name of organism ) shall appear clearly and easily to be 
read in the list of ingredients with same font size and different colour. 
– If there is no list of ingredients, the word s (genetically modified) or (produced from 
genetically modified, name of  organism) shall appear clea rly and easily on the label. G/TBT/N/BHR/211 
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  – Labelling must not mislead the purchaser as  to the characterist ics of the food stuff 
and among other things, in particular, as to its na ture, identity, properties, 
composition, method of production and manufacturing. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  To 
maintain consumer protection and food safety  
8. Relevant documents:  
– GSO "General requirements for geneticall y modified processed food and feed" 
– Regulation (EC) No. 1829/2003 of the Europe an Parliament and of the Council of 
September 2003 on genetically modified food and feed 
– Regulation (EC) No. 1830/2003 of the Europe an Parliament and of the Council of 
September 2003 concerning the traceability and labelling of genetically modified 
organisms and the traceability of food and feed products produced from genetically 
modified organisms and am ending Directive 2001/18/EC 
– GM foods:  safety assessment of gene tically modified foods, 2005-Food standards 
Australia New Zealand 
– Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  }To be determined 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from the notification date 
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e -mail and website addresses, if available of the other body: