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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/HUN/19
30 September 2003
(03-5145)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   HUNGARY
If applicable, name of local government involved:
2. Agency responsible:  Department of Animal Health and Food Control, Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development
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):  Domestically all farmed animals, as for the import:  live animals of bovine,
ovine and caprine species and products for human consumption thereof
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  All
countries exporting the produc ts concerned to Hungary
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:   Decree Nr. 69/2003
(VI.25) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on the prevention, control and
eradication of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (28 pages, available in
Hungarian)
6. Description of content:  Description of measures applicable domestically and to imports for
the prevention, control and eradication of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies.
Responsibilities of the concerned authorities and parties, monitoring, restriction on feeding of
animals.  Transposition of Regulation of  the European Parliament and the Council
Nr. 999/1001 as amended, Council Decisi on 2000/766/EC, and Co mmission Decisions
2001/9/EC and 2001/25/EC.
7. Objective and rationale:  [  X ] food safety, [ X ] animal health, [   ] plant protection,
[   ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease,  [   ] protect territory from other
damage from pests
8. International standard, gu ideline or recommendation:
[   ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [ X ] Office International des Epizooties,
[   ] International Plant Prot ection Convention, [   ] None
If an international standard , guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:
9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  Decree Nr. 69/2003
(IV.25) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Ru ral Development (in Hungarian).  An English
translation is available from the enquiry point.
10. Proposed date of adoption:  25 June 2003
11. Proposed date of entry into force:  25 July 2003G/SPS/N/HUN/19
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12. Final date for comments:  Not applicable due to consistency with OIE and harmonization
with already existing and notified EU legislation.
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [   ] National notification
authority, [   ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if
available) of other body:
13. Texts available from:  [   ] National notification authority, [ X ] National enquiry point,
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body: