WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/Notif.99.47
11 February 1999
(99-0544)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  THE NETHERLANDS
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:  Commodity Board for Soft Drinks and Waters          
Agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification shall be
indicated if different from above:  National Enquiry Point - EC WTO-TBT Enquiry Point   
      
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):  Fruit lemonades          
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Second Amendment to
the Implementation Decree on the Authenticity of Fruit Lemonades 1994          
6. Description of content:  The objective of the Amendment to the Implementation Decree is
to lay down a method for determining the juice content in soft drinks, such juice content
being lower than the compulsory 10 per cent minimum which applied up to recently.
Provided that the juice content is at least 5 per cent, a proportionate conversion factor can beapplied to these juice content levels based on the criteria listed in Article 1 of the
Implementation Decree on the authenticity of fruit lemonades 1994.          
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  Having
anticipated the amendment to the European Directive on the quantitative declaration of
ingredients, we can now bring fruit lemonades onto the Dutch market which contain less
than 10 per cent juice.  The criteria of the present Implementation Decree  only apply to
fruit lemonades with at least 10 per cent juice.  The present Amendment also renders themethod applicable to fruit lemonades with a juice content of less than 10 per cent but not to
fruit lemonades with a juice content of  less than 5 per cent because it is difficult to apply
the criteria listed in the Implementation Decree to such juice levels.          
8.Relevant documents:
- Industrial Organization Act;
- Establishment Regulation;
- Ordinance on the Authenticity of Fruit Lemonades 1992;- Implementation Decree on the Authenticity of Fruit Lemonades 1994          
9. Proposed date of adoption:  22 June 1999
Proposed date of entry into force:  5 July 1999
10. Final date for comments:  6 April 1999          
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X ] or address, e-mail and telefax number of
the other body:           