WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/PAK/1
6 January 2000
(00-0046)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
NOTIFICATION OF EMERGENCY MEASURES
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  PAKISTAN
If applicable, name of local government involved:           
2. Agency responsible: Animal Quarantine Department, Ministry of Food, Agriculture and
Livestock
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: All livestock and livestock products originating from Belgium
4. Title and number of pages of the notified document: Import of animal origin food from
EC member countries.  Letters to Director, Animal Quarantine Department, Karachi,
Pakistan, its attached departments and to the EC representative, Islamabad, Pakistan
(one page)
5. Description of content: Asked dioxin freedom certificate for the animal products being
imported from Belgium.
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. Nature of the urgent problem(s):  To protect the human and animal health from the
hazards of dioxin contamination and its effects.
8. An international standard, guideline or recommendation does not exist [  X ].
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give its appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:  Previously there was no dioxin freedom
certificate required with the consignments of livestock products being imported from
Belgium.  The purpose of this enforcement is to ensure dioxin free livestock products by the
Belgium Government.
9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  1-6/99- AAHC (E)
and 1-1/99- AAHC (Epid.), (one  page, available in English)
10. Date of entry into force/period of application (as applicable):  5 July 1999
11. Texts available from/and agency or authority designated to handle comments:
[    ] National notification authority, [     ] National enquiry point or address, fax
number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:  Pakistan SPS Enquiry Point,
Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock (Livestock Wing), 79 Al-Rehman Chambers,
Blue area, Islamabad, Pakistan, Attn:  Rafaqat Hussain Raja, Animal HusbandryCommissioner;  Tel: 92-051-9205092;  Fax:  92-051--9221357