WORLD TRADE G/TBT/Notif.97.625
7October 1997
ORGANIZATION
(97-4241)
Committee onTechnical Barriers toTrade
NOTIFICATION
Thefollowing notification isbeing circulated inaccordance withArticle 10.6.
1. Member toAgreement notifying: NETHERLANDS
Ifapplicable, name oflocalgovernment involved (Articles 3.2and7.2):
2. Agency responsible: Ministry ofEconomic Affairs
Agency orauthority designated tohandle comments regarding thenotification canbe
indicated ifdifferent from above: National enquiry point
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X],2.10.1 [],5.6.2 [],5.7.1 [],other:
4. Products covered (HSorCCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICSnumbers maybeprovided inaddition, where applicable): Fresh poultry meat
5. Title, number ofpages andlanguage(s) ofthenotified document: Ordinance onTrading
Standards forPoultry forSlaughter B.P.I.
6. Description ofcontent: Since theEuropean Trading Standards Ordinance forpoultry
meat hascome intoeffect, national legislation inthisrespect hasbeen rendered
superfluous. Theonlymatter outstanding wastoprescribe national sanctions, which has
nowtaken place inthisOrdinance. According totheDutch Government, theRegulation
specified inpoint 5probably contains technical regulations within themeaning ofthe
Agreement onTechnical Barriers toTrade. Articles 3,5and6paragraph 1andArticle 7
paragraph 2contain oldRegulations. Article 6,paragraphs 2to4,stipulate thatthose
parts ofpoultry meat which donotfallunder thescope oftheEuropean Trading
Standards Ordinance should alsomeet theprescribed requirements interms ofquality,
designation andtemperature requirements. Thisisanoldtechnical Regulation which,
duetoanomission since July1991, failed tobeincluded inthenational Trading
Standards Ordinance. This omission wasrectified from 1January 1994 (Amendment
Ordinance IIoftheOrdinance onTrading Standards forPoultry forSlaughter BPI).
Article 7,paragraph 1concerns thedesignation ofthetypes ofpoultry meat. This
Regulation wasalready inforce, butbyreference totheEuropean Implementing
Regulation 1538/91/EEC anumber ofdesignations have been added which were not
prescribed nationally before.
7. Objective andrationale: Insofar astheproposal fortheOrdinance contains quantitative
import restrictions ormeasures ofequal effect within themeaning oftheAgreement on
Technical Barriers toTrade. These measures arejustified intheinterests ofconsumer
protection andpublic health.
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8. Relevant documents: Original Ordinance onTrading Standards forPoultry forSlaughter
BPIplusAmendments ItoVI.Theoriginal Ordinance wasnotaccompanied byan
explanatory note.
9. Proposed dateofadoption: 20November 1997
Proposed dateofentry intoforce: 21November 1997
10. Final dateforcomments: 19November 1997
TheNetherlands willproceed toimplement theproposed measure after45days
ifnocomments orrequests forextension ofthetime-limit havebeenreceived from other
Members within thattime.
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X]oraddress andtelefax number ofother
body: