. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/EU/49 
2 July 2012  
 (12-3511) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Notifying Member:  EUROPEAN UNION  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  European Commission 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above :   
European Commission 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point Fax:  +(32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail:  mailto:eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
Website:  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other:   
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Fertilisers (HS:31) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Commission 
Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 2003/2003 of the European Parliament and of the 
Council relating to fertilisers fo r the purposes of adapting Anne xes I, II and IV thereto to 
technical progress (20 pages, in English).      
6. Description of content:  The purposes of the le gislative proposal are:  
- To replace the current type designation 'Kai nit' by a more generic type designation to 
 allow better access to a broader ra nge of potassium salts for farmers;  
- To allow the use of a new nitrificati on inhibitor in combination with nitrogen 
 fertilisers; 
- To introduce type designations fo r a broad range of liming materials; 
- To introduce reference to EN Standards to simplify legislation. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  – 
- Manufacturers will benefit from direct access to the internal market and farmers will 
 take advantage of a wider range of fertiliser types.  
- Access to EN Standards will be easier and a significant reduction of the number of 
 pages of the EU legislati on on fertilisers is foreseen. 
- The efficient control of fertilisers will be  reinforced by the use of a common system 
 of control (EN Standards). G/TBT/N/EU/49 
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  8. Relevant documents:   Regulation (EC) No 2003/2003 of th e European Parliament and of the 
Council relating to fertilisers, OJEU L304, 21.11.2003, pp. 1-194. 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=OJ :L:2003:304:0001:0194:EN:PDF  
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    March 2013 
20 days from publication in the Official Journal of the EU.  Annex I, point (1) shall apply 18 months after entry into force. Annex I, point (4) shall apply 12 months after entry into force. 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from date of notification. 
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addres ses, if available of the other body:    
European Commission 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point 
Fax:  + (32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail:  mailto:eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
The text is available on the EU-TBT Website:  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/   
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2012/tbt/EEC/12_2531_00_e.pdf