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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/EEC/172
25 July 2002
(02-4135)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
NOTIFICATION OF EMERGENCY MEASURES
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):   Live poultry and hatching eggs thereof, live ratites and hatching eggs thereof,
fresh meat of poultry, ratites, farmed and wild feathered game, poultry meat products and
meat preparations.
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:   Chile
5. Title, language  and number of pages of the notified document:  Draft Commission
decision concerning protective measures relating to avian influenza in Chile
SANCO/10332/2002-Rev. 2.  (6 pages, available in all Community languages).
6. Description of content:   Emergency protective measures (Avian Influenza)
7. Objective and rationale:  [    ] food safety, [ X ] animal health, [   ] plant protection,
[   ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [   ]  protect territory from other
damage from pests
8. Nature of the urgent problem(s) and reason for urgent action:   O u t b r e a k  o f  A v i a n
Influenza
9. 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:
10. Relevant documents and language(s ) in which these are available:   See paragraph 5
11. Date of entry into force/period of application (as applicable):  One day after its
publication in the Official journal of the Eu ropean Communities.  This decision shall be
reviewed  before the 20 September 2002.
12. Agency or authority designated to handl e comments:  [   ] National notification
authority, [ X ] EC enquiry point, or address, fax number and E-mail address (ifavailable) of other body:G/SPS/N/EEC/172
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13. Texts available from:  [   ] National notification authority, [ X ]  EC enquiry point,  or
address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body:
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