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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/CHN/40
19 November 2003
(03-6181)
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 feed of animal origin
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  All
countries and regions exporting feed of animal origin to China
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:   Regulation of Inspection
and Quarantine on Import of Feed of Animal Or igin (Draft) (Available in Chinese, 46 pages)
6. Description of content:  This draft regulation is to modify previous "regulation of
Quarantine on import animal products";  to establish a risk analysis system for the first case
of import; to request confirmation and deposition of Certificate Model issued by the
competent authority of export country to avoid Certificate verification problems when the
shipment reaches the destination port;  to request registration of the establishmentsinvolved in the manufacture, process and storage of feed of animal origin and request the
enterprises related to import to establish a business record, so that to improve the
management of feed safety;  also the new regulation attempts to increase transparency of
management to satisfy the demands of domestic and foreign trader.
7. Objective and rationale:  [   ] food safet y, [ 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, [   ] 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:  Regulation of
Inspection and Quarantine on Import of Feed of Animal Origin (Available in Chinese)
10. Proposed date of adoption:   To be decided.
11. Proposed date of entry into force:   Six months later after its adoption.G/SPS/N/CHN/40
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12. Final date for comments:  60 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 Ea st Road, Haidian District, Beijing, P.R. China
Fax:  0086-10-82262449E-mail:  sps@aqsiq.gov.cn
13. Texts available from:  [   ] National notification authority, [ X ] National enquiry point,
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:
Address:  No.9, Madian Ea st Road, Haidian District, Beijing, P.R. China
Fax:  0086-10-82262449
E-mail:  sps@aqsiq.gov.cn