WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/GEN/426/Corr.11
8 October 2003
(03-5312)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
TRANSPARENCY
Joint communication of Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania,
Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and the European Communities
Corrigendum
Paragraphs (ii) and (iii) should read:
(ii) As a consequence new EU member States have to fully comply with SPS legislation
already enforced within the European Communities.
(iii) For the sake of transparency, it has been considered useful to use a specific model of
notification to be used in the period preceding the date of accession.  For this it
should be considered that the relevant EU Acquis  has been previously notified, as
from when the obligation to notify applies i.e. in 1995, and open to comments, whichhave been taken into account in the final version of the SPS measures.  In this respect,
Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland,
Slovakia, Slovenia and the European Communities share a common understanding
supporting the view that the ongoing modification of their national SPS regulations as
a consequence of the adoption of the EU Acquis  will be notified for information [i.e.
comment period as foreseen in box 11 of the notification format, will not be
applicable.]  Therefore the objective of notification, as stipulated under point 7 in thenotification form, is the harmonization of legislation in connection with the accession
to the European Union.
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