. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/EEC/210
31 July 2003
(03-4079)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
If applicable, name of local government involved:
2. Agency responsible:   Commission of the European Communities, Health & Consumer
Protection Directorate-General.  Directorate E - Food Safety:  Plant Health, Animal Health
and Welfare, International questions
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):  Maize grain (CN 1005) for human consumption.  ICS 67.060
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:
Member States of the European Communitie s (EEC) and third countries exporting the
products concerned to the EEC.
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:   Draft Commission
Directive amending Commission Directive 98/53/EC of 16 July 1998 laying down the
sampling methods and the methods of analysis for the official control of the levels for certain
contaminants (4 pages)
6. Description of content:  This draft Regulation establishes the sampling procedure for the
official control of the levels of aflatoxins in  maize, to be subjected to sorting, or other
physical treatment before human  consumption or use as an ingredient in foodstuffs.
7. Objective and rationale:  [  X ] food safety, [   ] animal health, [   ] plant protection,
[  ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or di sease,  [   ]  protect territory from other
damage from pests
8. International standard, gu ideline or recommendation:
[   ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [   ] Office International des Epizooties,
[   ] International Plant Prot ection Convention, [ X ] None
If an international standard , guideline or recommendation exists, give the appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:   For coherence with the existing provisions, the
procedure notified hereby is equivalent to th at existing for peanuts as well as the sampling
provisions adopted by Codex Alim entarius for unprocessed peanuts.
9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  European
Commission Document SANCO/ 0073/2003 Rev.1 (available in all EC languages).  When
adopted it will be published at the Official Journal available at:
http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/oj/index.html.
10. Proposed date of adoption:   October 2003
11. Proposed date of entry into force:   1 January 2004G/SPS/N/EEC/210
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12. Final date for comments:  Sixty (60) days after the date of notification
Agency or authority designated to handle co mments:  [ X ] EC  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 ] EC enquiry point,  or
address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body: