. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/EEC/269 
10 August 2005 
 (05-3573) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION  
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
 
If applicable, name of local government involved: 
2. Agency responsible:   Commission of the European Communities. Health & Consumer 
Protection Directorate-General Directorate D – Food Safety: production and distribution chain. 
3. Products covered (provide tariff item numbe r(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where 
applicable):   
(a) materials and articles made of any type of plastics; (b) materials and articles covered by 
surface coatings; (c) adhesives. An y food in contact with them.   
4. Regions or countries likely to be affect ed, to the extent relevant or practicable: 
Member States of the Eur opean Communities (EEC) and third countries exporting the 
products concerned to the EU.   
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:   Draft Commission 
Regulation on the use of certain epoxy deriva tives in materials and articles intended to 
come into contact with foodstuffs (SANCO 2005/1352, 11 pages) 
6. Description of content:  This draft Regulation regulates the use and/or presence of 
BADGE, BFDGE and NOGE in materials and articles intended to come into contact with food and will replace the previous adopted  Directives 2002/16/EC and 2004/13/EC. It 
confirms the prohibition to use BFDGE a nd NOGE and changes the restriction for 
BADGE. It also provides for transitional peri ods for materials and articles, which are 
manufactured and brought into contact with f oodstuffs before the date of the enforcement 
of the Regulation. 
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 
To facilitate trade  by collecting the previous adopted Dire ctives in a new Regulation directly 
applicable into all Member States. It protects human health from materials releasing harmful substances such as some epoxy derivatives.  G/SPS/N/EEC/269 
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8. International standard, guideline or recommendation:  
[   ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [   ] World Organization for Animal Health 
(OIE), [   ] International Plant Protection Convention, [ X ] None  
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate 
reference and briefly identify deviations:    
 
9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  European 
Commission Document SANCO/2005/1318 (available in English). When adopted, it w ill be 
published at the Official Journal available at:  http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/lex/JOYear.do?year=2005
 . 
 
Further to Document SANCO/2005/1352, informa tion relevant to this proposal can be 
found: 
(a) in the opinions and minutes of EFSA available  respectively at:   
http://www.efsa.eu.int/science/ afc/afc opinions/catindex_en.html  and  
http://www.efsa.eu.int/science/af c/afc meetings/catindex_en.html ; 
(b) on the Websites of the EEC Joint Research Center on Food Contact Materials at: 
http://cpf.jrc.it/webpack/   
(c) on the website of DG Health  and Consumer Protection at: 
http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/food/ch emicalsafety/foodcontact/index_en.htm  
10. Proposed date of adoption:   October 2005 (at this time, is not  possible to estimate a more 
specific date). 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:   1 January 2006 
12. Final date for comments:  Sixty (60) days after the date of notification.  
Comments are welcome at any time and will be considered on the occasion of a new 
modification of this Regulation. 
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:    
13. Texts available from:  [   ] National notificati on authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, 
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body: