. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/EEC/387 
25 July 2011  
 (11-3753) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Notifying Member:  EUROPEAN UNION  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  European Commission 
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 :   
European Commission 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point Fax:  +(32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail:  mailto:eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/   
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):  Fertilisers (HS:31) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Commission 
Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 2003/2003 of the European Parliament and of the 
Council relating to fertilisers for the purposes of adapting Annexes I and IV thereto to 
technical progress (17 pages, in English). 
6. Description of content:   
The purposes of the legislative proposal are:  
 To allow the use of calcium borate, copper oxide and manganese oxide as ingredients 
for the manufacture of fertiliser suspensions.  One chelating agent, one complexing agent, two nitrification inhibitors and on e urease inhibitor ar e also proposed for 
inclusion in the respective lis ts of authorised substances. 
 To revise the rules for mixture of micro-nutrient fertilisers. 
 To introduce type designations to allow th e use of authorised complexing agents 
listed in Section E.3.2. 
 To modify the rules for mi cronutrient solutions to allow the use of one complexing 
agent in such fertilisers. 
 To introduce reference to EN Standards to simplify legislation. G/TBT/N/EEC/387 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:   
 Manufacturers will benefit from a direct ac cess to the internal market and farmers 
will take advantage of a wider range of fertilise types.  
 Access to EN standards will be easier and a significant reduction of the number of 
pages of the EU legislation on fertilisers is foreseen. 
 The efficient control of EU fertilisers will be reinforced. 
8. Relevant documents:    
Regulation (EC) No 2003/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council relating to 
fertilisers, OJEU L 304, 21.11.2003, pp. 1-194. 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=OJ :L:2003:304:0001:0194:EN:PDF  
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    January 2012 
20 days from publication in  the Official Journal 
of the EU 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from date of notification 
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addres ses, if available of the other body:    
European Commission 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point Fax:  +(32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail:  mailto:eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
The text is available on the EU-TBT Website :  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/  
And can be downloaded at: 
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2011/tbt/EEC/11_2403_00_e.pdf