RESTRICTED
WORLD TRADE G/SPS/N/NZL/3
2April 1996
ORGANIZATION
(96-1204)
Committee onSanitary andPhytosanitary Measures
NOTIFICATION OFEMERGENCY MEASURES
1. Member toAgreement notifying: NEW ZEALAND
Ifapplicable, name oflocal government involved:
2. Agency responsible: Ministry ofAgriculture (MAF Regulatory Authority)
3. Products covered (tariff item number(s) asspecified innational schedules deposited with the
WTO. ICS numbers may beprovided inaddition, where applicable): Thefollowing
bovine products ofUKorigin:
- beef(fresh, chilled, frozen, dried);
- alledible offal;
- allprocessed meats andmeatproducts, including canned products;
- blood;
- sausage casings;
- industrial margarine;
- boneproducts foranimal consumption;
- animal feedandfertilizer containing mammalian tissues;
- rawhide chews foranimals;
- beeffatandtallow;
- enzyme, organ andglandular derivatives andextracts;
- skinandother materials suchascollagen.
4. Title and number ofpages ofthenotified document: Amendment ofImport Health
Standard (2pages)
5. Description ofcontent: MAF Regulatory Authority import health standard 152.10 forthe
clearance ofanimals andanimal products contains procedures forborder clearance of
animals andanimal products. Provisions forpermitting theimport products ofbovine
origin from theUnited Kingdom havebeenrevoked.
6. Objective andrationale: Provisional measures fortheprotection ofanimal health
7. Nature oftheurgent problem(s): Newinformation from UKauthorities onlikely links
between bovine spongiform encephalopathy andCreutzfeldt-Jakob disease
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8. Aninternational standard, guideline orrecommendation does notexist [].
Ifaninternational standard, guideline orrecommendation exists, whenever possible,
identify deviations: Higher level ofsanitary protection thanwould beachieved by
measures based ontheOIEanimal health code, mammals, birds andbees.
9. Relevant documents and language(s) inwhich these areavailable: MAF Regulatory
Authority import health standard 152.10 fortheclearance ofanimals andanimal
products (English)
10. Date ofentry intoforce/period ofapplication (asapplicable): 29March 1996
11. Texts available from/comments to: National enquiry point [X]oraddress and telefax
number ofother body: