. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/FRA/65 
24 May 2007 
 (07-2123) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   French 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  FRANCE
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:  
Délégué interministériel aux normes  (Interministerial Delegate for Standards) 
Sous-direction de la normalisation, de la  qualité et de la propriété industrielle , SQUALPI 
(Sub-Directorate of Standardization, Quality and Industrial Property) Direction de l'action régionale, de la qualité et de la sécurité industrielle - Direction 
générale des entreprises , DARQSI-DGE (Directorate for Regional Action, Quality and 
Industrial Safety – Directorate-General for Enterprises) Bâtiment le Bervil 12 rue Villiot 
75572 Paris Cedex 12 
Tel.:  (+33) 1 53 44 97 04 Fax:  (+33) 1 53 44 98 88  E-mail: suzanne.piau@industrie.gouv.fr  syrte@industrie.gouv.fr 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and 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:   
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):   Fertilizers:  Designations 
and specifications 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Arrêté modifiant 
l’arrêté du 5 septembre 2003 portant mise en application obligatoire de normes  (Order 
amending the Order of 5 September 2003 estab lishing the mandatory implementation of 
standards) (2 pages, in French);  The Standard in question is French Standard 
NFU 42-001/A8 (7 pages, in French). 
6. Description of content:   The notified Order establishes the mandatory implementation of 
Amendment A8, which replaces Supplementary provisions No. 4 of March 1987 and No. 6 
of June 1991, approved pursuant to French Standard NFU 42-001  
 
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  6. Description of content:  (cont'd) 
 This Amendment to the Standard relates to the column "Declared content and other 
identification markings" in paragraphs 4.1.1,  4.1.3, 4.2 and 4.3 of French Standard 
NFU 42-001 of December 1981, the column for straight phosphatic fertilizers, the 
designations and specifications for which are set out in Supplementary provision No. 1 of 
February 1991, and the column for ammonitr ates in the Amending provision of May 1989 
  To improve readability, this Amendment incorporates Supplementary provisions 
No. 4 of March 1987 and No. 6 of June 1991, with  no changes other than the elimination of 
the column entitled "EEC marking". 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:   
 Standards dealing with fertilizing substa nces and growing media seek to facilitate 
the marketing of known products. 
 Such Standards are mandatory for public health reasons.  The implementation of 
this new Standard, which repeals and replaces tw o now obsolete Standards, is therefore also 
mandatory. 
8. Relevant documents:   French Standard NFU 42-001 (December 1981) – Amending 
provisions Nos. 1 (May 1989) and 2 (June 1992) – Supplementary provisions Nos. 1 
(February 1991), 2 (May 1984), 4 (March 1987), 5 (July 1991) and 6 (July 1991).  French 
Standard NFU 42-001/A8 approved in January 2007. 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force: }End of 2007 
10. Final date for comments:   15 August 2007 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, E-mail and web site addresses, if available, of other body:  
National enquiry point  
CINORTECH-AFNOR 11 avenue Francis de Pressensé  93571 Saint Denis La Plaine Cedex