. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/EEC/186
16 January 2003
(03-0223)
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 and 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):   Meat including poultry, pig kidney fat, eggs, milk, honey and aquaculture
products.
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:
Member States of the European Communitie s (EEC) and third countries exporting the
products concerned to the EEC.
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:   Draft Commission
decision amending Commissi on Decision 2002/657/EC of 12 August 2002 implementing
Council Directive 96/23/EC concerning the pe rformance of analytical methods and the
interpretation of result, as regards the setting of minimum required performance limits
(MRPLs) for certain residues in food of animal origin (5 pages).
6. Description of content:  Further to Commission Deci sion 2002/657/EC concerning the
performance of analytical methods and the interpretation of results (O.J. No. L221,
17 August 2002, pp:8-36 notified in G/SPS/N/EEC/98 (13 October 2000), this proposal aims
to facilitate trade by setting clear minimu m required performance limits (MRPL) for the
determination of Chloramphenicol in meat, eggs, milk, urine, honey and aquaculture
products;  Medroxyprogesterone acetate in pig ki dney fat, and of Nitrofurane metabolites in
poultry meat and aquaculture products.
7. Objective and rationale:  [  X ] food safety, [   ] animal health, [   ] plant protection,
[  ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or di sease,  [   ]  protect territory from other
damage from pests
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:G/SPS/N/EEC/186
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9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  European
Commission Document: SANCO/3955/2002 availabl e in all Community languages.  When
adopted it will be published in the Official Journal available at:
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/oj/index.html.
10. Proposed date of adoption:   End of February 2003
11. Proposed date of entry into force:   Beginning of March 2003
12. Final date for comments:  15 February 2003
Agency or authority designated to handle co mments:  [ X ] EC notification authority,
[   ] National 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: