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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/EEC/163
8 April 2002
(02-1810)
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:  European Commission, Directorate-General for Health and
Consumer Protection
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where
applicable).  Cereals, certain products of plant origin, including fruit and vegetables and
animal feedingstuffs  Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or
practicable:  European Community (EC) and third countries exporting to the EC
4. Title and number of pages of the notified document:  Draft Commission Directive
amending the Annexes to Council Dir ectives76/895, 86/362/EEC, 86/363/EEC and
90/642/EEC on the fixing of maximum levels for pesticide residues in and on cereals,
foodstuffs of animal origin and certain products of plant origin, including fruit andvegetables (SANCO/2504/01 rev6, 6 pages and 4 annexes)
5.Description of content:  This draft Directive harmonises maximum residue limits (MRLs)
for 21 existing active substances:  ethion, abamectin, azocyclotin, bioresmethrin, bifenthrin,
bitertanol, bromopropylate, clofentezine, cyromazine, cyhexatin, fenpropimorph,
flucytrinate, hexaconazol, myclobutanil, pencon azole, prochloraz, profenofos, resmethrin,
tridemorph, triadimefon and triadimenol.  Prev iosly national MRLs existed in several EU
Member States.
In many cases MRLs are set at the lower limit of analytical determination.  Higher MRLs
were proposed when this was justified by residue trials and toxicological data showing no
unacceptable risk to the consumer.  Any additional residue and toxicology data from WTO
Members concerning the MRLs to be changed, will be judged by experts in the EU.
6. Objective and rationale: [  X ] food safety,  [     ] animal health,  [  X ] plant protection,
[    ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [     ] protect territory from
other damage from pests           
7. An international standard, guideline or recommendation does not exist [    ].
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:  CODEX maximum residue limits for some
commodities exist.  Those relevant were taken into account.
8. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:
Doc SANCO/2504/01 rev6, in all official languages of the EC.G/SPS/N/EEC/163
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9. Proposed date of adoption:  18 June 2002
10. Proposed date of entry into force:  1 August 2002
11. Final date for comments:  60 days following the date on notification
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:
12. Texts available from: [     ] National notification authority, [  X ] National enquiry point
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body: