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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/EEC/206
2 July 2003
(03-3516)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
If applicable, name of local government involved:
2. Agency responsible:   Commission of the European Communities. Health & Consumer
Protection Directorate-General  Directorate E – Food Safety: Plant Health, Animal Health
and Welfare, International questions
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):  Cereals (CN Headings 1001, 1002, 1003, 1004, 1005, 1006, 1007, 1008),
foodstuffs of animal origin (CN Headings 0201, 0202, 0203, 0204, 0205, 0206, 0207,
0208, 0209, 0210).  Certain fruiting vegetables under CN headings 0702 to 0713;  cucurbits
(CN 0807), nuts (CN 0801 & 0802), wine grapes  (CN 0806), pome fruits (CN 0808), stone
fruits (CN 0809), strawberries, currants and other berries (CN 0810).
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:
Member States of the European Communities (EC) and third countries exporting the
products concerned to the EC.
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:   Draft Commission
Directive amending the Annexes to Council  Directives 86/362/ EEC, 86/363/EEC and
90/642/EEC regarding the fixing of maximum levels for certain pesticide residues in and
on cereals, foodstuffs of animal origin and certain products of plant origin, including fruit
and vegetables  (SANCO/10018/2003 Rev 4)
6. Description of content:   This draft Directive sets EU harmonized maximum residue limits
(MRLs) for  the existing active substance.  2,4-DB, linuron, pendimethalin, cyfluthrin, beta
cyfluthrin and iprodione, as well as for the new active substances:  imazamox, oxasulfuron,
ethoxysulfuron, foramsulfuron, oxadiargyl and cyazofamid.  All these substances are
recently included in Annex I to Directive 91/414.
Some of these MRLs are set at the lowest level of determination when the use of the
substance is not foreseen in that particular commodity.
7. Objective and rationale:  [  X ] food safety, [   ] animal health, [ X ] plant protection,
[   ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease,  [   ]  protect territory from other
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8. International standard, gu ideline or recommendation:
[   ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [   ] Office International des Epizooties,
[   ] International Plant Prot ection Convention, [ X ] None
If an international standard , guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:  CODEX maximum residue limits for some
commodities exist for cyfluthrin and iprodione;  those relevant were taken into account.When no CODEX limit exists, the best available information has been used, as evaluated
by the Scientific Committee.
9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:
European Commission Document: (SANCO/10018/ 2003 Rev 4) available only in English.
At the moment of this notification the French and Spanish versions are only available in its
version 3 form.  Therefore, the English version is the reference document.  When adopted,
it will be published in the Official Journal which is available at:
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/oj/index.html .
10. Proposed date of adoption:   7 October 2003
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  1 April 2005
12. Final date for comments:  Sixty (60) days after the date of notification.
Agency or authority designated to handl e comments:  [ X ] National notification
authority, [   ] EC enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if
available) of other body:
13. Texts available from:  [   ] National notification authority,  [ X ] EC enquiry point, or
address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:
More information on MRL for PPP in the European Union is available at
http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/ph_ps/pest/index_en.htm .
The work of the Scientific Committee on Plants  is available at
http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/scp/outcome_ppp_en.html