WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/Notif.00/327
23 August 2000
(00-3364)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   THE NETHERLANDS
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries
Agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification shall be
indicated if different from above:   National Enquiry Point – EC WTO TBT Enquiry Point
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [  X ], 2.10.1 [    ], 5.6.2 [    ], 5.7.1 [    ], other:           
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):   Animal feed
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Amendment III to the
Decree of the Marketing Board for Animal Feed Laying Down Standards forGood Marketing Practice in the Animal Feed Sector 1999.
6. Description of content:  Amendment III to the decree includes the following measures:
- Clarification of Article 6, second paragraph, applicable to operators that
standardize or pellet animal proteins from mammals, in order to be able to indicate,
during purchase administration and at the premises of receipt of these animal
proteins, that (copies of) the prescribed commercial documents or safety certificates
are available;
- the guaranteeing in Article 7, fourth paragraph, that animal proteins that are banned
from being fed to ruminants cannot be cross-contaminated with other feed during
storage and transit;
- in a new second paragraph of Article 11, an exemption option is created for the
transport of ruminant feed abroad;  this option is connected with the exemption in
the production provisions in Article 8, second paragraph.
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:   In
addition to two clarifications (Articles 6 and 7), Amendment III is implemented in order not
to hinder foreign sales of compound ruminant feed produced in accordance with the legal
provisions of the particular country.
8. Relevant documents:   Decree of the Marketing Board for Animal Feed Laying Down
Standards for the Animal Feed Sector 1999 with  Amendments I and II , Livestock Ordinance
Laying Down Regulations for the Recognition of Good Marketing Practice in the Animal
Feed Sector 1992 with Amendments I-VIII inclusive, Industrial Organisation Act,
Ordinance Establishing the Marketing Boards for Arable Farming.
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9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }15 September 2000
10. Final date for comments:   18 August 2000
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [  X ] or address, e-mail and telefax
number of the other body:           