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EU Marketing Standards for Fruits & Vegetables [http://useu.usmission.gov/agri/Fruit-Veg.html] Non-Hormone Treated Cattle (NHTC) Program [http://www.ams.usda.gov/lsg/arc/nhtc.htm] Organic Foods Legislation [http://useu.usmission.gov/agri/organic.html] CENELEC, European Committee for Electro technical Standardization [http://www.cenelec.org/Cenelec/Homepage.htm] ETSI, European Telecommunications Standards Institute [http://www.etsi.org/] CEN, European Committee for Standardization [http://www.cen.eu/cenorm/index.htm] Standardization mandates [http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/standards_policy/mandates/] ANSI, American National Standards Institute [http://www.ansi.org/] New Approach Legislation and Standardization in the Internal Market [http://www.newapproach.org/] ETSI’s e-Standardization portal [http://portal.etsi.org/Portal_Common/home.asp] Advisory and coordinating bodies to CEN [http://www.cenorm.be/cenorm/workarea/sectorfora/index.asp] Accredited test laboratories in the EU [http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newapproach/nando/] Government-to-Government Mutual Recognition Agreement Information [http://ts.nist.gov/Standards/Global/mra.cfm] European co-operation for Accreditation [http://www.european-accreditation.org/default_flash.htm] European Union law portal [http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/lex/JOIndex.do?ihmlang=en] List of EU Directives and Standards [http://www.newapproach.org/Directives/DirectiveList.asp] EC Technical Regulations Information System [http://ec.europa.eu/comm/enterprise/tris/] 2/15/2008 Country Commercial Guide for France 100 INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT, U.S. & FOREIGN COMMERCIAL SERVICE AND U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, © 2007. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.
Proposed Foreign Technical Regulations [http://tsapps.nist.gov/notifyus/data/index/index.cfm] EC Directive on packaging [http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31980L0232:EN:HTML] EU Eco-label Homepage [http://buyusainfo.net/docs/x_4284752.pdf] [http://ec.europa.eu/comm/environment/ecolabel/index_en.htm] [http://www.eco-label.com/] FAO [http://www.fao.org] Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) WTO [http://www.wto.org] World Trade Organization (WTO) DGCCRF website on biotech food and feed labeling (EU Regulation 1829/2003) is: [http://www.minefi.gouv.fr/DGCCRF/04_dossiers/consommation/alimentaire/ogm/ogm04 b.htm] DGCCRF website on traceability of GMOs and food products (EU Regulation 1830/2003) is: [http://www.minefi.gouv.fr/DGCCRF/04_dossiers/consommation/alimentaire/ogm/ogm04 a.htm?ru=04] The EU decree 2004-1058 implementing the new T&L regulation was written into French law and published in the French Official Journal in October 2004 and is available at [http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/WAspad/UnTexteDeJorf?numjo=ECOC0400078D] Return to table of contents 2/15/2008 Country Commercial Guide for France 101 INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT, U.S. & FOREIGN COMMERCIAL SERVICE AND U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, © 2007. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.
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