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ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/NOR/16 
20 July 2006 
 (06-3499) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  NORWAY
 
If applicable, name of local government involved:   
2. Agency responsible:  Ministry of the Environment in Norway  - Directorate for Nature 
Management  
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):  Examples:  invertebrates for sport fi shing (e.g. mosquito-larvae and angle-
worms), for hobby and exhibiti on purposes (e.g. scorpions and spiders), feed for other 
organisms, research , pest c ontrol in cowshed, pollinators ( Bombus ) 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  All 
countries where terrestr ial invertebrates such as those mentioned in no. 3 are produced or 
collected and may be exported to Norway.  
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:  Regulation on the import 
of invertebrates (Available in Norwegian;  unof ficial translation into English available upon 
request, 4 pages).  
6. Description of content:  The proposed regulation introduces a requirement of approval based 
on an environmental risk assessment prior to im port of invertebrates to Norway.  Organisms 
that are known not to represent risks to the environment are exempted from the requirement. 
An application for approval shall provide the fo llowing information:  name of organism, for 
what purpose the organism is to be imported, name of impo rter, necessary information to 
assess the product, and an asse ssment of whether or not the pr oduct may represent risks to the 
environment. 
The proposed regulation also contains packaging and labelling requirements.  
7. Objective and rationale: [   ] food safety,  [ X ] animal health,  [ X ] plant protection, 
[   ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [ X ] 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,  [   ] None 
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate 
reference and briefly identify deviations:  Convention on Biological Diversity, Article 8(h) 
and Decision VI/23 of the Conference  of the Parties to the Convention  G/SPS/N/NOR/16 
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  9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  The proposed 
regulation is available in Norwegian and as an unofficial translation to English.  
10. Proposed date of adoption:  Autumn 2006  
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  Autumn 2006  
12. Final date for comments:  25 September 2006  
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [ X ] National notification 
authority, [   ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:   
Directorate for Nature Management 
Att: Liv-Stephanie Haug 
N-7485 Trondheim 
Phone:  + 47 7358 05 00 Fax:  + 47 73 58 05 01 E-.mail:   postmottak@dirnat.no  
13. Texts available from:  [ X ] National notifi cation authority, [   ] National enquiry 
point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:   
Directorate for Nature Ma nagement (see 12. above)