WORLD TRADE G/TBT/Notif.96.406
20November 1996
ORGANIZATION
(96-4924)
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
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):
Certain partly orwholly dehydrated preserved milkforhuman consumption
5. Title andnumber ofpages ofthenotified document: Proposal foraCouncil Directive
Relating toCertain Partly orWholly Dehydrated Preserved Milk forHuman
Consumption (5pages, available in11languages)
6. Description ofcontent: TheProposal isbased onastructure, consisting ofanoperative
partfollowed byanAnnex. Theoperative partcontains, inter alia,provisions onthe
scope oftheproposal andlabelling requirements. TheAnnex contains thedefinitions
anddesignations oftheproducts inquestion anddetails oftheircomposition.
7. Objective andrationale: Theobjective ofthisProposal foraDirective istodefine
certain products, toprovide forappropriate designations andtolaydown common rules
oncomposition, manufacturing methods, andlabelling sothatthese products canmove
freely within theEuropean Community. ThisProposal simplifies theexisting Directives
applicable totheproducts inquestion.
8. Relevant documents: OJEC C231of9August 1996
9. Proposed dateofadoption:
Proposed dateofentry intoforce:June1998
10. Final dateforcomments: 22January 1997
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X]oraddress andtelefax number ofother
body: DGIII-A-1