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ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/EEC/196/Add.15 
6 July 2009  
 (09-3317) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION  
 
Addendum
 
  
The following communication, received on 30 June 2009, is being circulated at the request of 
the Delegation of the European Communities
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Cereals, foodstuffs of animal origin and certain products of plant origin, including fruit and vegetables
 
 
The EC are amending certain annexes to Regulation 396/2005/EEC with the proposal " Draft 
Commission Regulation amending Annexes II and III to  Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the 
European Parliament and of the Council as re gards maximum residue levels for azoxystrobin, 
acetamiprid, clomazone, cyflufe namid, emamectin benzoate, famo xadone, flufenoxuron, fluopicolide, 
fenbutatin oxide, indoxacarb, ioxynil, mepanipyrim,  prothioconazole, pyridalyl, thiacloprid and 
trifloxystrobin in or on certain products " (SANCO/5739/2009 rev 2).  This notification informs on the 
MRL changes (in bold in the annex) for each of these  substances mentioned, compared with the latest 
MRLs published on the Commission Regulation (EC) No 256/2009.1 
 
Description of content:  This draft directive rises some EC maximum residue levels (MRLs) 
for the following substances:  azoxystrobin, acetamiprid, clomazone, cyflufenamid, emamectin benzoate, famoxadone, flufenoxur on, fluopicolide, fenbutatin oxide, indoxacarb, ioxynil, 
mepanipyrim, prothioconazole, pyridalyl, thiacloprid  and trifloxystrobin in or on certain products. 
 
Information about the risk assessments performed by the European Food Safety Authority 
(EFSA) could be obtained at the EFSA website.
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This addendum concerns a: 
  [   ] Modification of final date for comments 
 [   ] Notification of adoption, publication or entry into force of regulation  [ X ] Modification of content and/or scope of previously notified draft regulation 
 [   ] Withdrawal of proposed regulation  [   ] Change in proposed date of adoptio n, publication or date of entry into force 
 [   ] Other:    
                                                     
 
1 Commission Regulation (EC) No 256/2009 of 23 March 2009 amending Annexes II and III to 
Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards maximum residue levels for azoxystrobin and fludioxonil in or on certain products. 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriSe rv.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:081:0003:0014:EN:PDF
 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriSe rv.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:081:0003:0014:FR:PDF  
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriSe rv.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:081:0003:0014:ES:PDF  
2 http://www.efsa.europa.eu . G/SPS/N/EEC/196/Add.15 
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Comment period: (If the addendum extends the scope of th e previously notified measure in terms 
of products and/or potentially affected Members, a new deadline for receipt of comments should be 
provided, normally of at least 60 calendar days.  Under other circumstances, such as extension of 
originally announced final date for comments, th e comment period provided in the Addendum may 
vary.)  
 [   ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the addendum to the notification and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) :   
 
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   
Text 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  The corresponding data can be downloaded fro m the internet address indicated below: 
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2009/sps/EEC/09_2332_00_e.pdf
 
 
 
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