WORLD TRADE G/TBT/Notif.97.50
21February 1997
ORGANIZATION
(97-0711)
Committee onTechnical Barriers toTrade
NOTIFICATION
Thefollowing notification isbeing circulated inaccordance withArticle 10.6.
1. Member toAgreement notifying: EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
Ifapplicable, name oflocalgovernment involved (Articles 3.2and7.2):
2. Agency responsible: European Commission
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): Agricultural animal
products (produced according totheorganic production method)
5. Title, number ofpages andlanguage(s) ofthenotified document: Notification ofa
Commission Proposal onOrganic Animal Production intheFramework (37pages)
6. Description ofcontent: Production rules andinspection arrangements fororganic animal
production
7. Objective andrationale: Rules inorder toensure fororganic animal products, fair
competition between producers, high credibility forconsumers andfreecirculation
within theEC.
8. Relevant documents: Doc. Com (96)366finalof26July1996
9. Proposed dateofadoption: 1997
Proposed dateofentry intoforce: 1998
10. Final dateforcomments: 60daysfrom notification
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X]oraddress andtelefax number ofother
body: DGIII-A-1