World Trade


Organization

G/SPS/N/PER/131
4 April 2006
(06-1579)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original: Spanish



NOTIFICATION OF EMERGENCY MEASURES



1.
Member to Agreement notifying: PERU
If applicable, name of local government involved:
2. Agency responsible: Servicio Nacional de Sanidad Agraria - SENASA (National Agrarian Health Service) 3.
Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where applicable): Ruminants and live swine and semen or embryos thereof; chilled or frozen meat, entrails and offal, hides, skins, wool and other products of these species capable of transmitting or carrying the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virus; non-sterile organic products, fodder and hay.
4.
Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: Province of Corrientes, Argentina
5. Title, language a

World Trade
Organization G/SPS/N/PER/130
29 March 2006 (06-1439) Committee on Sanitary andPhytosanitary Measures Original: Spanish


NOTIFICATION of emergency measures

1. Member to Agreement notifying: PERU
If applicable, name of local government involved: 2.
Agency responsible: Servicio Nacional de Sanidad Agraria - SENASA (National Agrarian Health Service)
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where applicable): Live birds (commercial birds, backyard poultry, fighting birds, wildfowl and ornamental cage birds), fertile eggs, eggs for consumption, poultry meat and other poultry products and by-products 4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: France, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Romania, Egypt, India, Turkey, Nigeria, Malaysia, Iraq and all other countries with birds affected by the avian influenza

World Trade
Organization G/SPS/NNA/9/Add.1
22 March 2006 (06-1288) Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures


NATIONAL NOTIFICATION AUTHORITies

Note by the Secretariat

Addendum


The present document contains a list of names, addresses, telephone and telefax numbers of the national notification authority foreseen in Paragraph 10 of Annex B of the Agreement, as submitted to the Secretariat as of 22 March 2006. Members able to provide an electronic (E-mail) address as well are requested to communicate these to the Secretariat (Gretchen.Stanton@wto.org).


________________



Armenia

WTO Notification Agency
5 Mkrtchyan Street
375010 – Yerevan


Telephone: + (374 10) 543 981
Telefax: + (374 10) 543 983
E-mail/Internet: info@arm-wto.am


Bolivia

Lic. Pablo Guzmán
Director General de Integración y Acuerdos Comerciales
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores y Culto

Calle Junin esq. Ingavi s/n


La Paz

Telephone: +

World Trade
Organization G/SPS/N/ECU/12
28 February 2006 (06-0855) Committee on Sanitary and
Phytosanitary Measures Original: Spanish


NOTIFICATION

1. Member to Agreement notifying: ECUADOR
If applicable, name of local government involved: 2.
Agency responsible: Servicio Ecuatoriano de Sanidad Agropecuaria, SESA (Ecuadorian Agricultural Health Service)
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where applicable): Boats entering and moving within the province of Galapagos. 4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:
Trading partners, tourists, national and international maritime transport. 5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document: Resolution No. 33 6. Description of content: Approval and implementation of the disinfection procedure for boats entering and moving within the

World Trade
Organization G/SPS/N/CUB/14
24 February 2006 (06-0821) Committee on Sanitary and
Phytosanitary Measures Original: Spanish


NOTIFICATION

1. Member to Agreement notifying: REPUBLIC OF CUBA
If applicable, name of local government involved: 2. Agency responsible: Ministry of Agriculture 3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where applicable): Chicken meat (whole chickens and chicken pieces) and its by-products. 4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: All countries or regions trading these products with the Republic of Cuba. 5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document: Requisitos sanitarios- veterinarios de la República de Cuba para la importación de carne de pollo entera y troceada y sus derivados (Veterinary health requirements of the Republic of Cuba for impo

World Trade
Organization G/SPS/N/TPKM/72
9 February 2006 (06-0567) Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original: English


NOTIFICATION

1. Member to Agreement notifying: THE SEPARATE CUSTOMS TERRITORY OF TAIWAN, PENGHU, KINMEN AND MATSU
If applicable, name of local government involved: 2. Agency responsible: Ministry of Finance 3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where applicable):
Alcohol p
roducts 4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: Regions or countries producing
alcohol products.
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:
Amend
ment of Article 2 of
"
The Draft of the Amended Hygiene Standards f
or
Alcohol Products
"
(
one page in Chinese, English translation available)
.
6. Description of content:
In addition to the requirements
set for

World Trade
Organization G/SPS/N/CAN/157/Rev.11
9 February 2006 (06-0565) Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original: English


NOTIFICATION OF EMERGENCY MEASURES

Revision

1. Member to Agreement notifying: CANADA
If applicable, name of local government involved: 2. Agency responsible: Canadian Food Inspection Agency 3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where applicable): All plants for planting and non propagative plant parts that are hosts of the pathogen Phytophthora ramorum. Propagative material, including nursery stock, of regulated species; wood products with bark of regulated species; non-propagative material, including cut flowers, branches, wreaths, greenery, cuttings and prunings of regulated species; soil and growing media. 4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: U

World Trade
Organization G/SPS/33/Add.1
6 February 2006
(06-0491) Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures



DECISION TO EXTEND THE PROCEDURE TO ENHANCE TRANSPARENCY OF SPECIAL AND DIFFERENTIAL TREATMENT IN FAVOUR OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Decision by the Committee of 1 February 2006

Addendum


At its meeting of 27-28 October 2004, the Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures ("the Committee") adopted a procedure to enhance transparency of special and differential treatment in favour of developing country Members (G/SPS/33).
Paragraph 4 of the procedure indicates that "Following one year of the adoption of this procedure, the Committee shall review the proposed notification process to evaluate its implementation, and determine whether changes are required and/or its continuance is warranted.".
In reviewing the operation of the procedure, the Committee noted that the procedure had only been used in a few instances and that more time was r

World Trade
Organization G/SPS/N/CHL/204/Add.1
3 February 2006 (06-0463) Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original: Spanish


notificaTIOn

Addendum


The following communication, dated 30 January 2006, is being circulated at the request of the delegation of Chile.

_______________


Health Requirements for the Importation of Horses into Chile either Definitively or Under the Dual Hemisphere Shuttle System and Abrogation of Certain Resolutions


The comment period for this notification has been extended until 4 March 2006.

The document is available from the Chilean Enquiry Point: antonieta.urrutia@sag.gob.cl.

__________


G/SPS/N/CHL/204/Add.1Página 1



G/SPS/N/CHL/204/Add.1 Página 1

World Trade
Organization G/SPS/ENQ/19
25 January 2006 (06-0346) Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures


NATIONAL ENQUIRY POINTS

Note by the Secretariat


The present document contains a list of names, addresses, telephone and telefax numbers of the enquiry point foreseen in Paragraph 3 of Annex B of the Agreement, and any additional information provided by delegations concerning its operation, as submitted to the Secretariat as of 23 January 2006. Members able to provide an electronic (E-mail) address as well are requested to communicate these to the Secretariat (gretchen.stanton@wto.org).

________________


Albania

General Directorate for Standardization (DPS)

Rruga "Mine Peza", Nr. 143/3
Kutia Postare 98
Tirana
Albania

Telephone: + (355 4) 247 176
Telefax: + (355 4) 226 255
E-mail/Internet: dsc@icc.al.eu.org


Angola

Francisco Antonio Jacinto
Ministério do Comércio
Largo 4 de Feveriro
Palácio de Vidro,

World Trade
Organization G/SPS/N/ARE/13
20 January 2006 (06-0254 Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original: English


NOTIFICATION OF EMERGENCY MEASURES

1. Member to Agreement notifying: UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
If applicable, name of local government involved: 2. Agency responsible: Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MAF) 3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where applicable): Hatching eggs, parents stocks and layers of one day old. 4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: Countries where no infectious case of avian influenza has been reported. 5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document: Ministerial Decree Number (437) of the year 2005 concerning allowing the importation of hatching eggs, parents stocks and layers of one day old from the countries where

World Trade
Organization G/SPS/N/CUB/11
5 January 2006 (06-0022) Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original: Spanish

NOTIFICATION

1. Member to Agreement notifying: CUBA
If applicable, name of local government involved: 2. Agency responsible: Ministry of Agriculture 3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where applicable): Eviscerated and uneviscerated fish, cultured fish stocks and wild fish stocks. 4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: All countries and regions trading these products with Cuba. 5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document: Requisitos para la importación de pescados a la República de Cuba (Requirements for the importation of fish into the Republic of Cuba) (4 pages, in Spanish) 6.













6. Description of content: Place

World Trade
Organization G/SPS/N/COL/94/Add.3
21 December 2005
(05-6217) Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original: Spanish


NOTIFICATION

Addendum


The following communication, received on 15 December 2005, is being circulated at the request of the delegation of Colombia.

_______________


Sanitary measures for imports and exports of animals and animal products to Colombia

The Republic of Colombia hereby informs the Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures that, by Colombian Agricultural Institute Resolution No. 03494 of 1 December 2005, it is suspending, until 31 May 2006, the application of Colombian Agricultural Institute Resolution No.03336 of 28 December 2004, notified in document G/SPS/N/COL/94/Add.1 of 25 April 2005.

Text available from the national notification authority, the Ministerio de Comercio, Industria y Turismo, Dirección de Regulación:
Contact person: Daniel Héctor Rico R.
Enquiry point: danielri

World Trade
Organization G/SPS/GEN/614
22 December 2005 (05-6250) Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures





NOTIFICATIONS ISSUED DURING THE MONTh OF november 2005

Note by the Secretariat

Notification/
Date of Circulation Region/Country affected
(as identified)
"Product" or issue
Objective Deadline for submission of comments
Colombia
G/SPS/N/COL/104 – EMRG

1 November 2005 Brazil Bovine animals, sheep, swine and other species - FMD Animal health United States
G/SPS/N/USA/1147
1 November 2005 Any US Trading partners Endothall in cotton, hops, potatoes, alfalfa seed and clover Food safety
Plant protection
Protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease Not applicable United States
G/SPS/N/USA/1148
1 November 2005 Any US Trading partners Oxydemethon-methyl in terrestrial food crops and terrestrial non-food sites Food safety
Plant protection
Protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease Not applicable
Romania
G/SPS/N/ROU/7

World Trade
Organization G/SPS/N/USA/1187
21 December 2005 (05-6221) Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original: English


NOTIFICATION

1. Member to Agreement notifying: UNITED STATES
If applicable, name of local government involved: 2. Agency responsible: US Department of Agriculture-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service 3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where applicable): Nursery stock 4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: Canary Islands, Canada, and Israel 5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document: Importation of Nursery Stock, Proposed Rule (Available in English, 21 pages) 6. Description of content: The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is proposing to amend the regulations on importing nursery stock to eliminate various