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Notifying Member: Turkey
If applicable, name of local government
involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):
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Agency responsible: Ministry of Food,
Agriculture and Livestock
Name and
address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website addresses, if
available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the
notification shall be indicated if
different from above:
Turkey-TBT Enquiry Point
Ministry of Economy
DG of Product Safety and Inspection
Inonu Bulv. No: 36 06100
Emek-Ankara / Turkey
Tel: +(90 312) 204 8074
Fax: +(90 312) 212 6864
E-mail: tbt@ekonomi.gov.tr
Website:
http://www.teknikengel.gov.tr
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Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ X ],
2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ],
5.7.1 [ ], other:
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Products covered (HS or CCCN where
applicable, otherwise national tariff
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): The
Communiqué covers green coffee beans, roasted coffee beans, ground coffee and
coffee extract, soluble coffee extract, soluble coffee and instant coffee. Coffee,
whether or not roasted or decaffeinated; coffee husks and skins; coffee
substitutes containing coffee in any proportion. (HS 0901), - Not
decaffeinated (HS 090111), - Extracts, essences and concentrates, of coffee,
and preparations with a basis of these extracts, essences or concentrates or
with a basis of coffee: (HS 21011). Coffee and coffee substitutes (ICS 67.140.20)
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Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Turkish Food Codex
Communiqué on Coffee and Coffee Extracts (6 pages, in Turkish)
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Description of content: Turkish
Food Codex Communiqué on Coffee and Coffee Extracts has been prepared in
compliance with the Council Directive 1999/4 relating to coffee and coffee
extracts. The Communiqué covers the provisions on definitions of green coffee
beans, roasted coffee beans and ground coffee; chemical properties of ground
coffee; chemical and physical characteristics of coffee extract, soluble
coffee extract, soluble coffee or instant coffee. However, it does not cover "café
torrefacto soluble", other coffee products and chicory extracts.
In
this Communiqué, additional provisions are excerpted from other international
regulations on coffee beans and necessary for execution of national
arrangements on production, import and inspections of these products more
efficiently; since coffee beans, roasted coffee beans and ground coffee are
widely consumed in Turkey.
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Objective
and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: Protection of human health or safety
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Relevant documents:
·
Directive
1999/4/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on coffee extracts
and chicory extracts
·
Austria Food
Law/Coffee, Coffee extracts
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Proposed date of
adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force:
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15 July 2014
15 July 2014
(With a transition period until 01 September 2015)
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Final date for comments: 60 days from
notification
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Text available from: National
enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail
and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:
Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock
General Directorate of Food and Control
Eskisehir Yolu 9. Km.
Lodumlu/ANKARA
Tel.:
+(90 312) 258 77 13
Fax: +(90 312) 258 77 60
E-mail: kodeks@tarim.gov.tr
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