NOTIFICATION OF EMERGENCY MEASURES
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Notifying Member: European Union |
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Agency responsible: European Commission, Health and Food Safety Directorate-General |
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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): Dried beans originating from Nigeria declared under CN code 0713 39 00 |
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Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable: |
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Title of the notified document: COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2015/943 of 18 June 2015 on emergency measures suspending imports of dried beans from Nigeria and amending Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 669/2009 Language(s): English, French and Spanish Number of pages: 2 http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2015/SPS/EEC/15_2472_00_e.pdf |
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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. |
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Nature of the urgent problem(s) and reason for urgent action: The results of official controls on dried beans from Nigeria show a continuous high frequency of noncompliance with food law requirements as regards pesticide residues. In the recent past, a large number of notifications have been issued to the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed in relation to dried beans originating from Nigeria, nearly all of them reporting the presence of the unauthorised active substance dichlorvos at levels largely exceeding the acute reference dose tentatively established by the European Food Safety Authority. These results provide evidence that the import of this food presents a serious risk for human health and that such risk cannot be contained satisfactorily by means of measures taken by the Member States concerned. |
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Is there a relevant international standard? If so, identify the standard: [ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g. title or serial number of Codex standard or related text) [ ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic Animal Health Code, chapter number) [ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number) [X] None Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard? [ ] Yes [X] No If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the international standard: While Codex MRLs have been established for dried beans for certain substances, this is not the case for dichlorvos, which is the substance whose residues are found in the majority of the samples with the above mentioned acute reference dose exceedances. |
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Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available: |
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Date of entry into force (dd/mm/yy)/period of application (as applicable): 20 June 2015 |
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Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [X] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body: European Commission DG Health and Food Safety, Unit G6-Multilateral International Relations Rue Froissart 101 B-1049 Brussels Tel: +(32 2) 29 54263 Fax: +(32 2) 29 98090 E-mail: sps@ec.europa.eu |
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Text(s) available from: [X] National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body: European Commission DG Health and Food Safety, Unit G6-Multilateral International Relations Rue Froissart 101 B-1049 Brussels Tel: +(32 2) 29 54263 Fax: +(32 2) 29 98090 E-mail: sps@ec.europa.eu |