. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/ALB/42 
10 December 2010  
 (10-6665) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  ALBANIA
  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Protection 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   National Enquiry 
Point. 
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):  Plant propagation 
material. 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Law of the 
Parliament "On plant propagation mate rial", (24 pages, in Albanian). 
6. Description of content:  This Draft Law aims to determine:  
– the conditions for the production, preparati on for trade, including the import for the 
plant propagation material; 
– the obligations of the personnel engaged in  production, preparation for market, trade, 
import of the plant propagation material; 
– the requirements for trade of the plant propagation material and the ways to guarantee 
their standards; 
– the rules for registration of the plants vari eties in KK, their maintenance and relevant 
test of the plants varieties to be registered in KK; 
– the method of use, data exchange and rela tionship of the system for manufacture and 
trade of the plant propagation material with the information system; 
– the rules of public service activity in th e field of the plant propagation material 
manufacture; 
– the rules for the plant propagation material inspection. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  The 
objective of this draft law is to determine the rules for quality assurance of the plant propagation material to support the agricultura l products, the environmental and consumer 
protection.  G/TBT/N/ALB/42 
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  8. Relevant documents:  
32002L0054 –  Council Directive 2002/57/EC , of 13 June 2002 on the marketing of seed 
of oil and fibre plants. OJ L 193, 20.07.2002, p. 12–32 , Consolidated Version 25.01.2005 
32002L0053 –  Council Directive 2002/53/EC , of 13 June 2002 on the common catalogue 
of varieties of agricultural plant species. OJ L 193, 20.07.2002, p. 1–11 , Consolidated 
Version 18.04.2004 
32002L0055 –  Council Directive 2002/55/EC , of 13 June 2002, on the marketing of 
vegetable seed. OJ L 193, 20.07.2002, p. 33–59 , Consolidated Version 04.07.2009 
32002L0056 –  Council Directive 2002/56/EC , of 13 June 2002, on the marketing of seed 
potatoes. OJ L 193, 20.07.2002, p. 60–73 , Consolidated Version 23.12.2008 
31966L0401 –  Council Directive 66/401/EEC , of 14 June 1966 on the marketing of 
fodder plant seed. OJ 125, 11.07.1966, p. 2298–2308 , Consolidated Version 04.07.2009 
31966L0402 –  Council Directive 66/402/EEC , of 14 June 1966 on the marketing of 
cereal seed. OJ 125, 11.07.1966 , Consolidated Version 04.07.2009 
31992L0090 –  Council Directive 92/90/EEC , of 03 November 1992 establishing 
obligations to which producers and importers of  plants, plant products or other objects are 
subject and establishing details for their registration. OJ L 344, 26.11.1992, p. 38
–39 
31968L0193 –  Council Directive 68/193/EEC , of 09 April 1968 on the marketing of 
material for the vegetative propagation of the vine. OJ L 93, 17.04.1968, p. 15–23 , 
Consolidated Version 14.07.2005 31992L0033 –  Council Directive 92/33/EEC , of 28 April 1992 on the marketing of 
vegetable propagating and planting material, other than seed. OJ L 157, 10.06.1992, p. 1–9 , 
Consolidated Version 30.10.2007 31992L0034 –  Council Directive 92/34/EEC , of 28 April 1992 on the marketing of fruit 
plant propagating material and fruit plants intended for fruit production. OJ L 157, 
10.06.1992, p. 10–18 , Consolidated Version 30.11.2007 
31998L0056 –  Council Directive 98/56/EC , of 20 July 1998 on the marketing of 
propagating material of ornamental plants. OJ L 226, 13.08.1998, p. 16–23 , Consolidated 
Version 10.07.2003 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    1 December 2010 
17 February 2011 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days after circulati on by WTO Secretariat 
11. Text available from: National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax numbers, 
e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:  
General Directorate of Standardization 
WTO Enquiry Point – ALBANIA Tel.:  + 355 42 22 62 55 Fax:  + 355 42 24 71 77 
E-mail:  info@dps.gov.al
 
Website:  http://www.dps.gov.al