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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/HUN/15
24 September 2002
(02-5126)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   HUNGARY
If applicable, name of local government involved:
2. Agency responsible:  Ministry of Agriculture and Regional Development
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):  Plants, plant products and regulated articles
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  All
countries
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:  Amendment of Decree of
the Minister of Agriculture and Regional Development 7/2001 (I.17.) on the rules of the
implementation of phytosanitary measures (129 pages)
6. Description of content:  New quarantine list, phytosanitary import and domestic regulations.
7. Objective and rationale:  [    ] food safety, [   ] animal health, [ X ] plant protection,
[  ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or di sease,  [   ]  protect territory from other
damage from pests  To prevent the introduction and spread of quarantine 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:
9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  The draft is available
in Hungarian.  Phytosanitary Import Regulations will be translated into English.
10. Proposed date of adoption:  15 November 2002
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  On phytosanitary import regulations 2004 (date of EU
Accession of Hungary)
12. Final date for comments:  20 October 2002
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  National Plant Protection
Organization
[   ] National notification authority, [   ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number
and E-mail address (if available) of other body:G/SPS/N/HUN/15
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13. Texts available from:  [   ] National notification authority,  [ X ]  National enquiry point,
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:
Ministry of Agriculture and Regional Development
Plant Protection and Agri-Envir onment Management Department
H-1860 Budapest 55, P.O.B. 1, Hungary
Fax:  36-1-301-4644E-mail:  lajos.szabo@posta.fvm.hu