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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/PHL/21
15 September 2000
(00-3616)
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Original:  English
NOTIFICATION OF EMERGENCY MEASURES
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  PHILIPPINES
If applicable, name of local government involved:           
2. Agency responsible:  Bureau of Animal Industry
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules
deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where
applicable).  Live poultry (01.05), meat and edible offal of poultry (02.07), poultry fat
(02.09), hatching eggs (04.07), guts, bladde rs and stomachs (05.04), skin (0505.90.00) and
semen of birds and blood (0511.99.00)  Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the
extent relevant or practicable:  Brazil
4. Title and number of pages of the notified document:  Department of Agriculture (DA)
Memorandum Order (MO) No. 9, series of 2000:  Temporary Ban on the Importation of
Domestic and Wild Birds;  Day-old Chicks, Turkey Poults and other Newly-hatched Avian
Species;  Hatching eggs, Semen of Domestic an d Wild Birds;  and Fresh Meat of Domestic
and Wild Birds Originating from Brazil (1 page)
5. Description of content:  MO No. 9 mandates the temporary banning of the enumerated
products in item 3 above in view of the outbreak of Newcastle disease in Brazil as
confirmed and reported by the Office international des Epizooties (OIE) .
6. 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           
7. Nature of the urgent problem(s):  To protect the viability of the poultry industry by
preventing the entry and spread of Newcastle disease in the country.
8. An international standard, guideline or recommendation does not exist [     ].
If an international standard, guideline or recommendation exists, give its appropriate
reference and briefly identify deviations:  Consistent with the 1999 Revised OIE Animal
Health Code
9. Relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  Available in English
10. Date of entry into force/period of application (as applicable):  ImmediatelyG/SPS/N/PHL/21
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11. Texts available from/and 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:
Philippine National SPS Enquiry Point:
Office of the DirectorPolicy Analysis Service
Department of Agriculture
3
rd floor, DA Bldg., Elliptical Road
Diliman, Quezon City
Tel:  (632) 926 7439
Fax:  (632 928 0590
E-mail address:  policy@da.gov.ph
or
Office of the Director
Bureau of Animal Industry
Visayas Avenue
Diliman, Quezon CityTel:  (632) 927 0971
Fax:  (632) 928 2429
You may download the document from the Phil ippine Department of Agriculture webside
at:   http//www.da.gov.ph