WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/MAR/3
21 April 1999
(99-1641)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original: French
NOTIFICATION
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  MOROCCO
If applicable, name of local government involved:
2. Agency responsible:  Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Sea Fisheries – 
Livestock Department
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: Live
animals, animal feedingstuffs, products of an imal origin, animal reproduction products and
sea and fresh water products
4. Title and number of pages of the notified document: Draft Decree supplementing Decree
No. 2-8-597 of 12 October 1993 implementing Law 24-89 laying down veterinary health
measures to control imports of animals, anim al feedingstuffs, products of animal origin,
animal reproduction products and sea and fresh water products (4 pages)
5. Description of content: The Decree lays down the procedures for veterinary health
inspection of imports of the above-mentioned products (document checks, sanitary andquality controls, sampling and taking of specimens for laboratory analysis).
6. Objective and rationale:  [   ] food safety  [  ] animal health [  ] plant protection [  ] protect
humans from animal/plant pest or disease  [  ]  protect territory from other damage from
pests   To enable veterinary inspectors to carry out the same procedures and take the same
decisions at the various Moroccan frontier posts through which imports are entered.  Theseprovisions will facilitate import removal procedures for operators.
7. An international standa rd, guideline or recommendati on 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: Basic text:
Decree No. 2-89-597 of 12 October 1993 impl ementing Law 24-89 establishing veterinary
health measures to control imports of animal s, animal feedingstuffs, products of animal
origin, animal reproduction products and sea and fresh water products (in French)
9. Proposed date of adoption: June 1999
10. Proposed date of entry into force: January 2000
11. Final date for comments:  15 May 1999
Agency or authority designated to handl e comments:  [ X ] National notification
authority, [  ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if
available) of other body:
12. Texts available from:  [ X ] National notification authority,  [  ]  National enquiry point,
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body: