. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/MYS/2
17 April 2001
(01-1942)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   MALAYSIA
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Department of Standards Malaysia
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   Standards
Management Department, SIRIM Berhad
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ X], 2.10.1 [    ], 5.6.2 [    ], 5.7.1 [    ], other:           
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):   Food and Agriculture
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   The Production,
Processing, Labelling and Marketing of Organically Produced Foods (30 pages, in English)
6. Description of content:   This draft Malaysian Standard has been prepared for the purpose
of providing an agreed approach to the requirements which relate to the production of, and
the labelling and claims for organically produced foods.
This draft Malaysian Standard applies to the following products which carry or are intended
to carry descriptive labelling referring to organic production methods:
(a) unprocessed plants and plant products;  and
(b) processed product for human consumption derived mainly from a)
This draft Malaysian Standard set out the principles of organic production at farm,
preparation, storage, transport, labelling and marketing stages.  It also provides indications
of accepted permitted inputs for soil fertilizing and conditioning, plant pest and disease
control, and food additives and processing aids.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
To be inline with the International Practice
8. Relevant documents:   FAO/WHO Codex Guidelines for the production, processing,
labelling and marketing of organically produced foods.
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }          G/TBT/N/MYS/2
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10. Final date for comments:   31 May 2001
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X] or address, telephone and fax
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:
WTO/TBT Enquiry Point, MALAYSIA
SIRIM Berhad
No. 1 Persiaran Dato’ Menteri
P.O.Box 7035 Section 240911 Shah Alam
Selangor Darul Ehsan
MALAYSIA
Tel.: + 603 5544 6111
Fax: + 603 5544 6114
E-mail: isd_resource@sirim.my
The electronic version of the Draft Malaysian Standards can be downloaded at:
http://www.sirim.my/std_dev/stdmenu.htm.