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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/EEC/189
6 February 2003
(03-0790)
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 General Directorate, 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):  Tomato plants, intended for planting [CN 0602].
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:
Member States of the European Community (EC) and third countries exporting the
products concerned to the EC.
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:   Commission Decision
2003/64/EC of 28 January 2003 on provisional measures to prevent the introduction into
and the spread within the Community of pepino mosaic virus as regards tomato plants,
intended for planting  (3 pages, published in all EC official languages).
6. Description of content:  Decision 2003/64/EC extends until 31 January 2004 provisions
laid down in Commission Decision 2001/536/EC, which has expired on 31 December
2002.
7. Objective and rationale:  [    ] food safety, [   ] animal health, [ X ] plant protection,
[   ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease,  [   ]  protect territory from other
damage from pests
8. International standard, gu ideline or recommendation:
[   ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [   ] Office International des Epizooties,
[ X ] International Plant Prot ection Convention, [ X ] None
If an international standard , guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:
9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  Commission
Decision 2003/64/EC of 28 January 2003 on pr ovisional measures to prevent the
introduction into and the spread within the Community of pepino mosaic virus as regardstomato plants, intended for planting. Availabl e in all community languages.  Published in
the Official Journal of the European Communities L 24, 29.1.2003, pp. 15-17, available at:
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/index.html .
10. Proposed date of adoption:   Adopted on 28 January 2003G/SPS/N/EEC/189
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11. Proposed date of entry into force:   Entered into force on 29 January 2003.
12. Final date for comments:  Not applicable
Agency or authority designated to handle co mments:  [   ] EC notification authority,
[ X ] 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:
Or (EN/FR/ES) at:
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/dat/2003/l_024/l_02420030129en00150017.pdf
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/fr/dat/2003/l_024/l_02420030129fr00150017.pdf
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/es/dat/2003/l_024/l_02420030129es00150017.pdf