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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/BRA/89
8 December 2003
(03-6482)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   BRAZIL
If applicable, name of local government involved:
2. Agency responsible:   ANVISA – Brazilian Sanitary Surveillance 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):  Control products used on or ganic agriculture HS 29
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:  All
countries
5. Title, language and number of pages of the notified document:   Public consultation
n.º 91 on control products used on organic agriculture, published at Diário Oficial da União(Official Journal) on 4 November 2003 (Available in Portuguese, 2 pages)
6. Description of content:  It establishes procedures to be adopted on the registration,
toxicological and environmental evaluation of  control products used on organic agriculture
and considered as pesticides.
This measure will also be notified under the TBT Agreement.
7. Objective and rationale:  [ X ] food safet y, [ X ] animal health, [ X ] 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:
9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  Decree 4.074,
2 January 2002 (Available in Portuguese)
10. Proposed date of adoption:   To be defined.
11. Proposed date of entry into force:   To be defined.G/SPS/N/BRA/89
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12. Final date for comments:  10 December 2003
Agency or authority designated to handle comments:  [   ] National notification
authority, [ X ] National enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (if
available) of other body:
Gerência-Geral de Relações Internaconais
Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária (ANVISA)
SEPN 515, Bloco B, Edifício Ômega
70770-502
Brasília-DF
Tel:  + (5561) 448 1078
Fax:  + (5561) 448 1089E-mail/Internet:  rel@anvisa.gov.br
Web site:  www.anvisa.gov.br
13. Texts available from:  [   ] National notification authority, [ X ] National enquiry point,
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:
The electronic version of the regulatory text can be downloaded at:
http://www.anvisa.gov.br/base/visadoc/CP/CP[5805-1-0].PDF