. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/ALB/25 
18 December 2007 
 (07-5646) 
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:   REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   Ministry of  Health 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site 
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):   The iodized salt intended 
for human and animal consumption and for use in the foodstuff industry 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Draft Law of Council 
of Ministers on approval of the Regulation “On prevention of disorders caused by the iodine 
deficiency in the human organism through th e general iodizing of salt intended for human 
and animal consumption and for use in the foods tuff industry in the territory of Albania”, (8 
pages, available in Albanian). 
6. Description of content:   This Draft Law of Council of Ministers designates to stop the 
processing, importing, marketing and placing in the market of salt, that does not contain enough iodine, intended for human and animal consumption and for use in  the foodstuff 
industry. This Law creates the necessary lega l framework on the universal iodizing of salt 
intended for human and animal consumption and for use in foodstuff industry. Iodine 
deficiency causes mental and physical back wardness, but it can prevent by taking from 
humans a necessary amount of iodine. Taking it fro m the salt is one of the effective ways 
for elimination of iodine deficiency disease. Th e iodine deficiency also causes the lowering 
of intellectual coefficient up to 13.5 point. Th is Law defines the quantity of iodine in the 
salt which had to be in the level 40 – 60 mg iodine per kg of salt and not lower that 20 mg 
iodine per kg of salt. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
The objective is to prevent the disorders caused by iodine deficiency in human and animal 
organism through the iodizing of salt intended for human and animal consumption and for 
use in the foodstu ff industry as well. 
8. Relevant documents:   - G/TBT/N/ALB/25 
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  9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    27 February 2008 
27 August 2008 
10. Final date for comments:   60 days after circulation by WTO Secretariat 
11. Texts 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) 422 6255 
Fax. (+355) 424 7177 
E-mail:  info@dps.gov.al 
Website: http://www.dps.gov.al