BELGIUM: MINISTERIAL ORDER AMENDING MINISTERIAL ORDER OF 28 JANUARY 1993 CONCERNING CONTROL OF THE TEMPERATURE OF DEEP-FROZEN PRODUCTS The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6. G/TBT/Notif.97.269. 1. Member to Agreement notifying: BELGIUM. If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2). 2. Agency responsible: Ministry of Social Affairs, Public Health and the Environment, Inspectorate Foodstuffs, Cite

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AC T='3'>te 5, 1010 Brussels. Agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification can be indicated if different from above. 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): Deep-frozen products and more specifically control of the temperature of these deep-frozen products. 5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Ministerial Order Amending Ministerial Order of 28 January 1993 Concerning Control of the Temperature of Deep-Frozen Products. 6. Description of content: This Ministerial Order incorporates into the old Order of 28 January 1993 certain provisions that are applicable nationally. It includes a series of standards that must be met by measuring instruments to be placed in transport vehicles registered in Belgium. These rules also include a mutual recognition clause with respect to equipment installed in all vehicles in keeping with rules in force in other countries of the Union. KEY WORDS: Deep-frozen products, temperatures, control. 7. Objective and rationale: Article 2 of Directive 92/1/EEC provides that instruments for measuring the temperature of deep-frozen products inside their means of transport must be approved by the competent authority of the country in which said means of transport are registered. As the Commission has left it up to the countries to act on the matter, the submitted draft makes it possible to establish standards for the approval of measuring instruments. 8. Relevant documents: -- Royal Order of 5 December 1990 concerning deep-frozen products. -- Ministerial Order of 28 January 1993 concerning control of the temperature of deep-frozen products. 9. Proposed date of adoption: 60 days; Proposed date of entry into force: 60 days. 10. Final date for comments: Not listed. 11. Texts available from: National enquiry point or CIBELNOR. (0184)

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