. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/CHN/21
22 July 2003
(03-3916)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
If applicable, name of local government involved:
2. Agency responsible:   General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and
Quarantine of the People's Republic of China (AQSIQ)
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):  All products of animal origin other th an for human or animal consumption
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  All
countries and regions exporting products of animal origin other than for human or animalconsumption to China
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:   Inspection and
Quarantine Administration on imported animal origin products other than for human or
animal consumption (Draft) (A vailable in Chinese, 51 pages)
6. Description of content:  This draft regulation is to modify previous "regulation of quarantine
on imported animal";  to establish a risk an alysis and classification management system
which provides different management measures for the products with different risks, so that
to focus main concern on risk of raw materials and facilitate the clearance of the products
with low risk;  the new regulation requests co nfirmation and deposition of Certificate Model
to be issued by the official authority of expor ting country to avoid the Certificate verification
problem when the shipment reaches the destination port;  also the new regulation attempts to
increase transparency of management to satisfy the demand of domestic and foreign traders.
7. Objective and rationale:  [    ] food safety, [ X ] animal health, [   ] plant protection,
[ X ] 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, [ X ] 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:
9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  Inspection and
Quarantine Administration on imported animal origin products other than for human or
animal consumption (Available in Chinese)
10. Proposed date of adoption:   To be decided.G/SPS/N/CHN/21
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11. Proposed date of entry into force:   Six months after its publication.
12. Final date for comments:  Sixty days after circulation by the Secretariat.
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [   ] National notification
authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if
available) of other body:
Address:  No. 9, Madian East Road, Haidian District, Beijing, P.R. China
Fax:  0086-10-82262449E-mail:  sps@aqsiq.gov.cn
13. Texts available from:  [   ] National notification authority,  [   ]  National enquiry point,
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:
Address:  No. 9, Madian East Road, Haidian District, Beijing, P.R. China
Fax:  0086-10-82262449
E-mail:  sps@aqsiq.gov.cn