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G/SPS/N/ALB/154 
6 July 2012 
 (12-3620) 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
1. Notifying Member:  ALBANIA 
If applicable, name of local government involved:    
2. Agency responsible:  Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Protection 
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):  Plant health, plant protection products , registration and marketing of plant 
protection products 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: 
[X] All trading partners   
[ ] Specific regions or countries:    
5. Title of the notified document:   
Draft Law "On Plant Protection" 
The draft had been prepared based  on the following EU legislation: 
• Council Directive 2000/29/EC "On protectiv e measures against introduction into 
the Community of organisms harmful to plan ts or plants products and against their 
spread within the Community" 
• Regulation (EC) 1107/2009 of the Europ ean Parliament and of the Council 
"Concerning the placing of the plant protection products on the market ..."  
Language(s):  Albanian  Number of pages:  25 
6. Description of content:  The purposes of this law are: 
• To ban the entrance and spread of p ests in the territory of Albania. 
• To protect plants and plant products from pests. 
• To protect the human and animal health and environment from the use of Products 
for Plant Protection (PPP). 
• To ensure the implementation of the intern ational agreement in the field of plant 
protection. 
This draft law has the following chapters: Chapter I: General Provisions G/SPS/N/ALB/154 
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  Chapter II: Organization and performing of the plant protection 
Chapter III: Pest control (based on the Council Directive 2000/29/EC) 
Chapter IV: Phyto-sanitary service and qua rantine inspection (based on the Council 
Directive 2000/29/EC). 
Chapter V: Plant protection products (based on the Regulation (EC) 1107/2009) Chapter VI: Administrative infringements 
Chapter VII: Final dispositions. 
7. Objective and rationale:  [X] food safety , [ ] animal health, [X] plant protection, 
[ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or  disease, [X] 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)    
[X] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number)  ISPM 15  
[ ] None 
Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?   
 [X] 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:      
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) :  December 2012 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) :    
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  [ ] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) :    
[ ] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Final date for comments:  [X] Sixty days  from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) :  4 September 2012 
Agency or authority designated to handl e comments:  [ ] National Notification 
Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if 
available) of other body:     G/SPS/N/ALB/154 
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  13. Texts available from:  [X] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry 
Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:    
Directorate for Food Safety and Consumer Protection  
SPS Enquiry Point - Albania Tel:  +(355 4) 2 259 333 Fax:  +(355 4) 2 259 333 
E-mail:  mbumk_sps@yahoo.com 
Website:  http://www.mbumk.gov.al