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ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/EEC/340 
17 February 2009 
 (09-0799) 
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 E – Safety of the food chain 
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):  Food contact materials 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: 
[ X ] All trading partners, or [   ] Specific regions or countries:    
5. Title of the notified document:  "Draft Commission Regulation on active and intelligent 
materials and articles intended to come  into contact with food" Document 
SANCO/3261/2008  Language:  English  Number of pages:  14 
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2009/sps/EEC/09_0625_00_e.pdf  
6. Description of content:  The objective of this draft Regulation is to set down additional 
requirements to Regulation (EC) No 1935/2 004 for active and intelligent materials and 
articles to ensure their safe use.  Additiona l requirements cover the relation to other 
material specific measures such as the plasti cs directive, labelling of parts that can be 
mistaken for food and a declaration of co mpliance.  It introduces an authorisation 
procedure for the use of substances in activ e and intelligent materials and articles. 
7. Objective and rationale:  [ X ] food safety, [   ] 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)    
[   ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number)     
[   ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g.  ISPM N°)     G/SPS/N/EEC/340 
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   [ X ] None 
Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?   
 [   ] 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:  Further to 
Document SANCO/3261/2008, information relevant  to this proposal can be found on the 
website of DG Health and Consumers at: 
http://ec.europa.eu/food/food/chemi calsafety/foodcontact/index_en.htm  
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) :  April 2009 
Propose date of publication ( dd/mm/yy) :   
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  [   ] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) :  This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication 
in the Official Journal of the European Union . 
[   ] Trade facilitating measure 
12. Final date for comments: [ X ] Sixty days  from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or ( dd/mm/yy ):  18 April 2009 
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