WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/Notif.99.225
7 May 1999
(99-1860)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  SWITZERLAND
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:  Federal Office of Public Health
Agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification shall be
indicated if different from above:           
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):  Swiss pharmacopoeia:  two
new monographs
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document :
Hyperici summitates cum floribus recentes (Frische Johanniskraut-Triebspitzen;
Sommités fraîches des rameaux de millepertuis ).
Hyperici oleum (Johanniskrautöl; Huile de millepertuis).
6. Description of content:  The monographs establish requirements concerning definition,
identification, purity and content of the products mentioned under 5.
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:
Protection of public health.
8. Relevant documents:  Swiss Pharmacopoeia 8th edition (Decree on the Pharmacopoeia from
4 April 1990 [SR 812.211]).  The two new monographs are based on the general methods of
the European Pharmacopoeia, 3rd edition including the 2nd Supplement and the pre-
publication of the monograph Hyperici herba which will be implemented on
1 January 2000.
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: } 1 August 1999
10. Final date for comments:  31 June 1999
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X ] or address, e-mail and telefax number of
the other body: