NETHERLANDS: SLAUGHTERED POULTRY The following notification has been received in Gatt Document TBT/Notification G/95.23 dated 8 February 1995. 1. Member to agreement notifying: Netherlands if applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2): 2. Agency responsible: Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries. 3. Notified under Article 2.9.2. 4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise National Tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Slaughtered poultry. 5. Title and number of pages of the notified document: Amendment 1994-1: Regulation governing trading standards concerning poultry for slaughter. (2 pages). 6. Description of content: The regulation governing trading standards concerning PPE poultry for slaughter prescribes, in respect of slaughtered poultry, compliance with the provisions contained in the (EEC) Council Regulation No. 1906/90, dated 26 June 1990 establishing trading standards for poultry meat and the implementing regulations of (EEC) Regulation No. 1906/90. Additionally, this regulation stipulates that the EC requirements in respect of the water content do not only apply to chicks, but also to chickens, cockerels and other poultry. The present amendment regulation has been drafted in the light of the fact that the (EEC) Commission Regulation No. 2891/93, amending (EEC) Regulation No. 1539/91, governing implementing provisions of (EEC) Regulation No. 1906/90 establishing trading standards for meat and poultry, and withdrawing (EEC) regulations Nos. 2976/76 and 2785/90 has come into force. 7. Objective and rationale: Pursuant to the present regulation, infringements of the relevant EC regulations are deemed punishable offences and the water content requirements are made to apply to chickens, cockerels and other poultry. 8. Relevant documents: Business Organization Act 1950; Establishment Act - Commodity board for poultry and eggs; trading standards regulation concerning PPE poultry for slaughter. 9. Proposed date of adoption and entry into force: 12 April 1995. 10. Final date for comments: 1 April 1995. (055)

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