. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/SPS/N/EEC/349 
29 July 2009  
 (09-3674) 
Committee on Sanitary a nd Phytosanitary Measures Original:   English 
 
 
 
NOTIFICATION  
 
1. Notifying Member:  EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES  
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 number(s) as specified in national schedules 
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where 
applicable):  Live poultry, day-old chicks, hatching eggs and poultry meat 
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: 
[   ] All trading partners, or 
[ X ] Specific regions or countries:  Brazil, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Israel and the 
United States of America  
5. Title of the notified document:  "Draft Commission Regulation of *** amending Annex I 
to Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 laying down a list of third countries, territories, zones or compartments from which poultry and poultry products may be imported into and transit through the Community and the veterinary certification requirements" (SANCO/4694/2009)  Language:  English  Number of pages:  61 
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2009/sps/EEC/09_2618_00_e.pdf
 
6. Description of content:  The amendment introduces more flexible conditions for 
certification for freedom of Newcastle disease for imports of poultry and certain poultry products into the European Communities from the third countries listed above.  It is based 
on the recognition that measures to control Newcastle disease are equivalent to those applied in the EC member States.  In the ev ent of an outbreak of Newcastle disease in the 
countries listed above imports may continue to be authorized from the third country to the 
European Communities from those areas whic h have not been placed under official 
restrictions by the third country concerne d due to an outbreak of that disease.  
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.  Facilitation of trade according to the principles of regionalization. G/SPS/N/EEC/349 
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  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)    
[ X ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number)     
[   ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g.  ISPM N°)     
[   ] 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 2009  
Propose date of publication ( dd/mm/yy) :  December 2009 
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  [   ] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) :    Regulation shall enter into force 30 days  following that of its publication in 
the Official Journal of the European Union. 
[ X ] Trade facilitating measure  
12. Final date for comments: [   ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or ( dd/mm/yy ):  Comments welcome at anytime. 
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 
13. Texts available from:  [ X ] National Notification Authority, [   ] National Enquiry 
Point.  Address, fax number and E-ma il address (if available) of other body:  
sps@ec.europa.eu