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ORGANIZATIONG/SPS/N/EEC/168
3 July 2002
(02-3715)
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 D – Food Safety.
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):   Food additives other than colours and sweeteners. ICS 67.220.20.
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:
Member States of the European Communities (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 96/77/EC laying down specific purity criteria
on food additives other than colours and sweeteners (SANCO/779/2002, 60 pages)
6. Description of content:   This draft sets the technical specifications for a number of food
additives currently covered by EP and Council Directive 95/2/EC
7. Objective and rationale:  [  X ] food safety, [   ] animal health, [   ] plant protection,
[   ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease,  [   ]  protect territory from other
damage from pests damage from pests .   Adoption of the purity criteria which will then
become of a mandatory nature
8. International standard, gu ideline or recommendation:
[ X ] Codex Alimentarius Commission, [   ] 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:   Where they exist, the draft is based on the
specifications established by internati onal bodies (JECFA (Joint FAO/WHO Expert
Committee on Food Additives).  In other cases, they have been prepared on the basis of the
technical and safety data available.
9. Relevant documents and language(s ) in which these are available:   European
Commission Document SANCO/ 779/2002, available in all Community 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:   September 2002
11. Proposed date of entry into force:   20 days as of publication in the OJECG/SPS/N/EEC/168
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12. Final date for comments:   Sixty (60) days after the date of notification
Agency or authority designated to handl e comments:  [ X ] National 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 ]  National enquiry point,
or address, fax number and E-mail address (if available) of other body: