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WORLD TRADE G/SPS/N/EEC/375 9 July 2010 ORGANIZATION (10-3763) Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original: English NOTIFICATION 1. Notifying Member: EUROPEAN UNION If applicable, name of local government involved: 2. Agency responsible: European Commission, Health & Consumers Directorate-General Directorate E - Safety of the Food Chain 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): Foodstuffs 4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: 5. [X] All trading partners [] Specific regions or countries: Title of the notified document: "Draft Commission Directive amending Directive 2009/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the approximation of the laws of the Member States on extraction solvents used in the production of foodstuffs and food ingredients" Language: English Number of pages: 5 http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2010/sps/EEC/10_2711_00_e.pdf 6. Description of content: The EFSA evaluated the safety of dimethyl ether as an extraction solvent to remove fat from animal protein raw materials and expressed its opinion of 29 January 2009 (OJ L 141, 6 June 2009). The EFSA concluded that there is no safety concern provided that the MRL of dimethyl ether is 9 μg/kg of extracted animal proteins. Specific limits should be set in foodstuffs for methanol and propan-2-ol resulting from their use for the preparation of flavourings from natural flavouring materials. Those limits should be lower than the limit of 10 mg/kg assessed as safe by the Scientific Committee for Food, in order to be considered as safe. 7. Objective and rationale: [X] food safety, [ ] animal health, [ ] plant protection, [ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [ ] protect territory from other damage from pests. 8. Is there a relevant international standard? If so, identify the standard: [] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g. title or serial number of Codex standard or related text) [] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic Animal Health Code, chapter number) . /. G/SPS/N/EEC/375 Page 2 [] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number) [X] None Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard? [ ] Yes [ ] No If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the international standard: 9. Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available: "Directive 2009/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States on extraction solvents used in the production of foodstuffs and food ingredients": http://eurlex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:141:0003:0011:EN:PDF 10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy): Mid-September 2010 Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy): October 2010 11. Proposed date of entry into force: [ ] Six months from date of publication, and/or (dd/mm/yy): On the 20th day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. [] 12. Trade facilitating measure Final date for comments: [X] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the notification and/or (dd/mm/yy): 7 September 2010 Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [X] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body: European Commission DG Health and Consumers, Unit D3 - International questions (multilateral) Rue Froissart 101 B 1049 Brussels Tel.: +(32) 2 29 68185/59922 Fax: +(32) 2 2998090 E-mail: [email protected] 13. Texts available from: [X] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body: European Commission DG Health and Consumers, Unit D3 - International questions (multilateral) Rue Froissart 101 B 1049 Brussels Tel.: +(32) 2 29 68185/59922 Fax: +(32) 2 2998090 E-mail: [email protected]
