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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/NLD/52
25 April 2000
(00-1657)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  THE NETHERLANDS
If applicable, name of local government involved:           
2. Agency responsible:  Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries.
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where
applicable).  Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or
practicable:  Products stipulated in the Decree:  animal feeds.
4. Title and number of pages of the notified document: Decree of the Animal Feed
Marketing Board laying down standards relating to Good Manufacturing Practices in theanimal feed sector 1999.
5.Description of content:
The Decree replaces the same Decree from 1997 (notified as G/SPS/N/NLD/21 on
30 January 1998). The Decree goes into more detail in the following subsections than
does the 1997 Decree:
- standards relating to the incidence of salmonella in turkey feeds;
- standards relating to animal meals in connection with feeds for ruminants
intended for the market (article 6), storage and transport and standardisation
(article 7), production of pre-mixed feeds and feeds for ruminants (article 8)
and the transport of feeds for ruminants (article 11);
- standards for compound feeds concerning added copper and zinc have been included
(article 9);
- hygiene standards for the transport of feedstuffs, pre-mixed feeds and
compound feeds (article 10) have been included;
- in the case of residual fats, a reference has been included to the provisions in
the 1999 Decree on fats in feeds.
The Decree has been re-enacted because the amendments were too extensive for it to
be incorporated in an amendatory Decree.
6. Objective and rationale: [  X ] food safety,  [  X ] animal health,  [     ] plant protection,
[    ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease,
[    ] protect territory from other damage from pests           
7. An international standard, guideline or recommendation does not exist [  X ].
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:           
8. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available: Cattle Feed
Ordinance on the GMP approval regulation for the animal feed sector 1992 with
amendments I to VI (already notified), Industrial Organisation Act (already submitted under
notification 94/0292/NL), Ordinance establishing the Agricultural Marketing Boards
(already submitted under notification 94/0292/NL).G/SPS/N/NLD/52
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9. Proposed date of adoption:  1 June 2000.
10. Proposed date of entry into force:  1 June 2000.
11. Final date for comments:  27 May 2000.
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:           
12. Texts available from: [     ] National notification authority, [  X ] National enquiry point
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:           