Report Highlights:
This report contains summaries of relevant decisions and documents from the Russia-KazakhstanBelarus Customs Union (CU) meetings, published between May 20 and July 17, 2013 that impact CU food and agriculture policy. Key documents included herein are three draft SPS documents for public comment, which were notified by Russia to the World Trade Organization (see G/SPS/N/RUS/27, 28, and 29), a number of decisions on import tariff changes for numerous agricultural products, which appear consistent with Russia’s WTO commitments, as well as decisions excluding meat, milk, fish and products thereof from the scope of the CU Technical Regulation “On Food Safety.”
General Information:
This report contains summaries of relevant decisions and documents from the Russia-KazakhstanBelarus Customs Union (CU) meetings, published between May 20 and July 17, 2013 that impact CU food and agriculture policy. Key documents included herein are three draft SPS documents for public comment, a number of decisions on import tariff changes, which appear consistent with Russia’s WTO commitments, as well as decisions excluding meat, milk, fish and products thereof from the scope of the CU Technical Regulation “On Food Safety.”
The documents below are hyperlinked via “Google Translate,” for readers seeking further details. Select “refresh” on your browser if the page does not translate to the end. Please note that the CU is often delayed when publishing attachments to decisions. If there is an attachment in a decision that is not yet linked, please check back again. As of the date of publication of this report, only the three draft SPS measures published for public
comment (i.e., G/SPS/N/RUS/27, 28, and 29) have been notified to the World Trade Organization, as indicated in the Post comment on such measures below
