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28428 Notices Federal Register Vol. 64, No. 101 Wednesday, May 26, 1999 This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER contact Mr. Tracy Atwood the inspection in the Docket Clerk's Office contains documents other than rules or Designated Federal Officer for BIFAD. between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., proposed rules that are applicable to the Write him in care of the Agency for Monday through Friday. public. Notices of hearings and investigations, International Development, Ronald FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: F. committee meetings, agency decisions and Reagan Building, Office of Agriculture rulings, delegations of authority, filing of Edward Scarbrough, Ph.D., United petitions and applications and agency and Food Security, 1300 Pennsylvania States Manager for Codex Alimentarius, statements of organization and functions are Avenue, N.W., Room 2.11±005, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office examples of documents appearing in this Washington, DC 20523±2110, telephone of the Undersecretary for Food Safety, section. him at (202) 712±5571 or fax (202) 216± Room 4861, South Agriculture Building, 3010. 1400 Independence Avenue, SW, Tracy Atwood, Washington, DC 20250±3700; (202) 205± AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL USAID Designated Federal Officer (Deputy 7760. For information pertaining to DEVELOPMENT Director, Office of Agriculture and Food particular committees, the delegate of Security, Economic Growth Center, Bureau that committee may be contacted. (A Board for International Food and for Global Programs). complete list of U.S. delegates and Agricultural Development One [FR Doc. 99±13268 Filed 5±25±99; 8:45 am] alternate delegates can be found in Hundred and Twenty-Ninth Meeting; BILLING CODE 6116±01±M Attachment 2 to this notice.) Notice of Meeting SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Background Committee Act, notice is hereby given of DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE the one hundred and twenty-ninth The World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting of the Board for International Food Safety and Inspection Service was established on January 1, 1995, as the common international institutional Food and Agricultural Development [Docket No. 99±013N] (BIFAD). The meeting will be held from framework for the conduct of trade 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on June 10 and International Standard-Setting relations among its members in matters from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on June 11, Activities related to the Uruguay Round Trade 1999, in the USAID Public Information Agreements. The WTO is the successor Center, Suite M.1, Mezzanine Level, AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection organization to the General Agreement Ronald Reagan Building, located at 1300 Service, USDA. on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). U.S. Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., ACTION: Notice. membership in the WTO was approved Washington, DC 20523. and the Uruguay Round Agreements Act As part of its agenda, BIFAD will SUMMARY: This notice informs the public was signed into law by the President on discuss the role of biotechnology and its of the sanitary and phytosanitary December 8, 1994. The Uruguay Round importance to developing countries: standard-setting activities of the Codex Agreements became effective, with research and development; intellectual Alimentarius Commission (Codex), in respect to the United States, on January property rights; biosafety; biotechnology accordance with section 491 of the 1, 1995. Pursuant to section 491 of the development strategies; and the role of Trade Agreements Act of 1979, as Trade Agreements Act of 1979, as the private sector and future amended, and the Uruguay Round amended, the President is required to developments. During this meeting, Agreements Act, Pub. L. 103±465, 108 designate an agency to be responsible Partnerships for Food Industry Stat. 4809. It also provides a list of other for informing the public of the sanitary Development, a proposed USAID standard-setting activities of Codex, and phytosanitary (SPS) standard- program whose objective is to help including commodity standards, setting activities of each international developing and transition economy guidelines, codes of practice, and standard-setting organization, Codex, countries increase food quality, revised texts. This notice, which covers International Office of Epizootics, and processing and marketing will be the time periods from June 1, 1998, to the International Plant Protection covered. BIFAD will also discuss May 31, 1999, and June 1, 1999, to May Convention. The President, pursuant to revisions to the Title XII legislation and 31, 2000, seeks comments on standards Proclamation No. 6780 of March 23, the establishment of a joint committee currently under consideration and 1995 (60 FR 15845), designated the U.S. to review priorities for and results of recommendations for new standards. Department of Agriculture as the agency USAID/university collaboration. ADDRESSES: Submit any written responsible for informing the public of Those wishing to attend the meeting comments to: FSIS Docket Clerk, U.S. sanitary and phytosanitary standard- should contact Mr. George Like at the Department of Agriculture, Food Safety setting activities of each international Agency for International Development, and Inspection Service, Room 102, standard-setting organization. The Ronald Reagan Building, Office of Cotton Annex, Washington, DC 20250± Secretary of Agriculture has delegated to Agriculture and Food Security, 1300 3700. Please state that your comments the Administrator, Food Safety and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Room refer to Codex and, if your comments Inspection Service (FSIS), the 2.11±072, Washington, DC 20523±2110, relate to specific Codex committees, responsibility to inform the public of telephone (202) 712±1436, fax (202) please identify those committees in your the SPS standard-setting activities of 216±3010 or internet [[email protected]] comments and submit a copy of your Codex. The FSIS Administrator has, in with your full name. comments to the delegate from that turn, assigned the responsibility for Anyone wishing to obtain additional particular committee. All comments informing the public of the SPS information about BIFAD should submitted will be available for public standard-setting activities of Codex to VerDate 06-MAY-99 22:15 May 25, 1999 Jkt 183247 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\26MYN1.XXX pfrm07 PsN: 26MYN1 Federal Register / Vol. 64, No. 101 / Wednesday, May 26, 1999 / Notices 28429 the Office of U.S. Codex Alimentarius, relating to Codex Alimentarius. The chairpersons and six members elected FSIS. United States' delegate will maintain a from the Commission, one from each of Codex was created in 1962 by two list of individuals, groups, and the following geographic regions: Africa, U.N. organizations, the Food and organizations that have expressed an Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the interest in the activities of the Codex Caribbean, North America, and South- World Health Organization (WHO). committees and will disseminate West Pacific. At its session in June 1999, Codex is the principal international information regarding United States' it will consider the following items: organization for encouraging fair delegation activities to interested • Report of the financial situation of international trade in food and parties. This information will include the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards protecting the health and economic the current status of each agenda item; Programme for 1998/99 and 2000/01; interests of consumers. Through the United States Government's position • Principles of Risk Analysis; adoption of food standards, codes of or preliminary position on the agenda • Matters Arising from Reports of practice, and other guidelines items; and the time and place of Codex Committees; • developed by its committees and by planning meetings and debriefing Designation of Host Governments promoting their adoption and meetings following Codex committee for Codex Committees and ad hoc Intergovernmental Task Forces; implementation by governments, Codex sessions. Please notify the appropriate • seeks to ensure that the world's food U.S. delegate or the Office of U.S. Codex Review of Criteria for New Work supply is sound, wholesome, free from Alimentarius, Room 4861, South and Guidelines for the Establishment of adulteration, and correctly labeled. In Agriculture Building, 1400 ``Inclusive'' Standards; and • Provision of Documentation, the United States, the United States Independence Avenue, SW, Translation and Interpretation Services Department of Agriculture (USDA); the Washington, DC 20250±3700, if you for Codex Committees. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), would like to receive information about Department of Health and Human specific committees. Responsible Agency: USDA/FSIS Services (HHS), and the Environmental The information provided in U.S. Participation: Yes Protection Agency (EPA) manage and Attachment 1 describes the status of Codex Committee on Residues of carry out U.S. Codex activities. Codex standard-setting activities by the Veterinary Drugs in Foods Codex Committees for the time periods As the agency responsible for The Codex Committee on Residues of informing the public of the sanitary and from June 1, 1998 to May 31, 1999, and June 1, 1999 to May 31, 2000. In Veterinary Drugs determines priorities phytosanitary standard-setting activities for the consideration of residues of of Codex, FSIS publishes this notice in addition, the following attachments are included: veterinary drugs in foods and the Federal Register annually.