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ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/EEC/196/Add.13 
13 February 2009  
 (09-0729) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION  
 
Addendum
 
  
The following communication, received on 11 Fe bruary 2009, is being circulated at the 
request of the Delegation of the European Communities
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Cereals, foodstuffs of animal origin and certain products of plant origin, including fruit and vegetables
 
 
The EC is amending certain annexes to Regulation 396/2005/EEC with the proposal " Draft 
Commission Regulation amending certain Ann exes to Regulation 396/2005/EEC, as regards 
maximum residue levels for ethephon, fenam iphos, fenarimol, methamidophos, methomyl, 
oxydemethon-methyl, procymidone and vinclozolin " (SANCO 3791/2008 rev. 3).  This notification 
informs on the MRL changes (in bold in the annex) fo r each of these substances mentioned, compared 
with the latest MRLs published on th e Commission Regulation (EC) No 839/2008.1 
 Description of content
:  This draft directive modifies some EC maximum residue levels (MRLs) for 
ethephon, fenamiphos, fenarimol, methamidophos, methomyl, oxydemethon-methyl, procymidone 
and vinclozolin.  
This addendum concerns a: 
 
 [   ] Modification of final date for comments 
 [   ] Notification of adoption, publication or entry into force of regulation 
 [ X ] Modification of content and/or scope of previously notified draft regulation 
 [   ] Withdrawal of proposed regulation  [   ] Change in proposed date of adoptio n, publication or date of entry into force 
 [   ] Other:    
 
Comment period: (If the addendum extends the scope of th e previously notified measure in terms 
of products and/or potentially affected Members, a new deadline for receipt of comments should be 
provided, normally of at least 60 calendar days.  Under other circumstances, such as extension of 
originally announced final date for comments, th e comment period provided in the Addendum may 
vary.)  
 [   ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the addendum to the notification and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) :  30 March 2009 
 
                                                     
 
1 http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUri Serv.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:234:0001:0216:EN:PDF  G/SPS/N/EEC/196/Add.13 
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  New risk assessments for all the substances above mentioned have been performed to take into 
account the changes in the toxicological endpoints at EU level, which ra ise concern for certain 
commodities.  In those particular cases, the MRLs have been set lower.  Information about the risk assessments performed by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) 
could be obtained at the EFSA web-site.
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Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [ X ] National Notification Authority, [   ] 
National Enquiry Point.  Address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body : 
 sps@ec.europa.eu  
 
Text available from:  [ X ] National Notification Authority, [   ] National Enquiry Point.  Address, 
fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body
: 
 
sps@ec.europa.eu 
 The corresponding data can be downloaded fro m the internet address indicated below: 
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2009/sps/EEC/09_0601_00_e.pdf
  
  
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2 http://www.efsa.europa.eu/EFSA/Scientif icOpinionPublicationReport/efsa_locale-
1178620753812_ScientificOpinions.htm