. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/EEC/379 
28 July 2010 
 (10-4039) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
1. Notifying Member:  EUROPEAN UNION
 
If applicable, name of local government involved:    
2. Agency responsible:  Commission of the European Communities.  Health & Consumers 
Directorate-General Directorate D - Animal Health and Welfare 
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):  Feed 
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 Commission Regulation (EU) amending Annex IV 
to Regulation (EC) No 767/2009  on permitted tolerances for the compositional labelling of 
feed materials or compound feed as referred to in Article 11(5)"  Language:  English  
Number of pages:  6 
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2010/sps/EEC/10_2911_00_e.pdf  
6. Description of content:  Annex IV to Regulation (EC) No 767/2009 is replaced by the 
Annex IV named:  "Permitted tolerances for the compositiona l labelling of feed materials 
or compound feed provided for in Article 11(5) " which contains "Part A:  Tolerances for 
the analytical constituents set out in Annexes I,  V, VI and VII" and "Part B:  Tolerances for 
feed additives labelled according to Annexes I, V, VI and VII". 
7. Objective and rationale:  [ ] food safety, [X] 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 number)    
[X] None G/SPS/N/EEC/379 
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  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:   
"Regulation (EC) No 767/2009 of the Eur opean Parliament and of the Council of 
13 July 2009 on the placing on the market and use of feed, amending European Parliament 
and Council Regulation (EC) No 1831/2003 a nd repealing Council Directive 79/373/EEC, 
Commission Directive 80/511/EEC, Council Directives 82/471/EEC, 83/228/EEC, 93/74/EEC, 93/113/EC and 96/25/EC and Commission Decision 2004/217/EC" http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriSer v.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:229:0001:0028:EN:PDF    
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) :  October 2010 
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) :  October 2010 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  [ ] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) :  On the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the 
European Union .  This Regulation shall apply from 1 September 2010. 
[ ] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Final date for comments:  [X] Sixty days  from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) :  25 September 2010 
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [X] National Notification 
Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if 
available) of other body:   
European Commission 
DG Health and Consumers, Unit D3 - In ternational questions (multilateral)  
Rue Froissart 101 B 1049 Brussels Tel.:  +(32 2) 29 68185/59922 
Fax:  +(32 2) 29 98090 
E-mail:  sps@ec.europa.eu 
13. Texts available from:  [X] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry 
Point.  Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:    
European Commission 
DG Health and Consumers, Unit D3 - In ternational questions (multilateral)  
Rue Froissart 101 
B 1049 Brussels 
Tel.:  +(32 2) 29 68185/59922 Fax:  +(32 2) 29 98090 E-mail:  sps@ec.europa.eu