WORLD TRADE G/TBT/Notif.96.112
26April 1996
ORGANIZATION
(96-1615)
Committee onTechnical Barriers toTrade
NOTIFICATION
Thefollowing notification isbeing circulated inaccordance withArticle 10.6.
1. Member toAgreement notifying: UNITED STATES
Ifapplicable, name oflocalgovernment involved (Articles 3.2and7.2):
2. Agency responsible: Food andDrug Administration (47)
Agency orauthority designated tohandle comments regarding thenotification canbe
indicated ifdifferent from above:
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X],2.10.1 [],5.6.2 [],5.7.1 [],other:
4. Products covered (HSorCCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICSnumbers maybeprovided inaddition, where applicable): Food labelling
5. Title, number ofpages andlanguage(s) ofthenotified document: Uniform Compliance
DateforFood Labelling Regulations (2pages)
6. Description ofcontent: TheAdministration isproposing toestablish 1January 1998, as
itsnewuniform compliance dateforallfoodlabelling regulations thatareissued after
thepublication ofafinalrulebased onthisproposal andbefore 1January 1997. The
Administration hasperiodically announced uniform compliance dates fornewfood
labelling requirements tominimize theeconomic impact oflabel changes. In1992, the
Administration suspended thispractice pending theissuance ofregulations implementing
theNutrition Labelling andEducation Actof1990 (the1990 Amendments).
7. Objective andrationale: Toestablish anewuniform compliance dateforfoodlabelling
regulations.
8. Relevant documents: 61FR16422, 15April 1996; 21CFRPart1.Willappear inthe
Federal Register when adopted.
9. Proposed dateofadoption: TheAdministration isproposing that1January 1998, bethe
new uniform compliance date forfood labelling regulations published after the
publication ofafinalrulebased onthisproposal andbefore 1January 1997, except as
otherwise provided inindividual regulations.
Proposed dateofentry intoforce:
10. Final dateforcomments: 1July1996
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X]oraddress andtelefax number ofother
body: