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GENERAL AGREEMENT TBT/Notif.95.27

4 July 1995

ON TARIFFS AND TRADE Special Distribution

(95-1832)

Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade

 

NOTIFICATION

The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.4.

1. Party to Agreement notifying: SWITZERLAND

2. Agency responsible: Federal Office for Public Health

3. Notified under Article 2.5.2 [X], 2.6.1 [ ], 7.3.2 [ ], 7.4.1 [ ], other:

4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.

ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): V.6.22.101 Loss on drying determined with a balance of plain polished glasses, Amyli hydrolysati solutio, Flumethasoni pivalas, Hyperici herba, Maltodextrinum, Nicotinum

5. Title and number of pages of the notified document: New Monographs for the SWISS PHARMACOPOEIA (Supplement 1996)

6. Description of content: Requirements concerning definition, identification, purity and content of the products mentioned under 4.

7. Objective and rationale: Protection of the public health

8. Relevant documents: Swiss Pharmacopoeia 7th Edition (Decree on the Pharmacopoeia from 4 April 1990 [SR 812.211]). The general methods of the European Pharmacopoeia are used for these drafts.

9. Proposed date of adoption and entry into force: 1 January 1996

10. Final date for comments: 17 August 1995

11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X] or address and telefax number of other body: