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whose permission will be required before anyone can derive a benefit from that approval?
     * Who holds the intellectual property in the subject matter of your application?

     J International and other national standards

     J.1 International Standards

The application must contain details of any Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex) Standards relevant to the application.

Note:

This information is required since one of the five additional objectives to which FSANZ must have regard is the promotion of consistency between domestic and international standards.

Codex standards are regarded as the international standards related to food by the World Trade Organization (WTO). Information on Codex Alimentarius can be found at http://www.fao.org/docrep/w9114e/w9114e00.htm.

A list of current official Codex standards can be found at http://www.codexalimentarius.net/web/standard_list.do?lang=en.

Both Australia and New Zealand, as members. of the WTO, must comply with the Technical Barriers. to Trade (TBT) and Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Agreements of the WTO.

     J.2 Other national standards or regulations

The application should contain details of relevant standards or regulations in other countries with comparable regulatory processes, where available.

     K Statutory declaration

The application must contain a signed statutory declaration that includes the following statements:

    1. The information provided in this application fully sets out the matters. required.
    2. The information provided in this application is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
    3. No information has been withheld that might prejudice this application, to the best of my knowledge and belief.

A statutory declaration provided on behalf of a body corporate must be made by a senior officer of that body corporate who is authorised to make the declaration on its behalf. The senior officer must state their name and source of knowledge and authority in making the statutory declaration and include a sufficient explanation of who they are (name, address, organisation/employer, position).

Templates for Australian and New Zealand statutory declarations are provided on the FSANZ website at http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/code/changes/applying/Pages/Statutory-declaration.aspx.

Note:

For overseas applicants, FSANZ will accept signed equivalent documents from other countries (in English).

     L Checklist

More than one guideline may apply to an application. The application must contain completed checklists for all relevant guidelines with regard to format and information requirements relevant to the application (see Appendix 1).

Page numbers. must be included with the checklist as indicated in the Appendix.

Note:

An example of when more than one guideline might apply is where an application involves adding a nutritive substance to infant formula. In this case, the checklists for Guidelines 3.1.1 – General requirements, 3.3.3 – Substances used for a nutritive purpose and 3.6.3 – Special purpose foods – Other foods, would be relevant.

     Chapter 3.2

     Guidelines for applications for

     labelling and other information requirements

     3.2.1 General food labelling

An application to vary