Notification of updating the Annex of the adopted Animal Health Requirements for raw milk/milk products to be exported to Japan

As was announced in G/SPS/N/JPN/471/Add.1 dated 14 November 2016, the revised Article 45 of "the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Act on Domestic Animal Infectious Disease Control" will enter into force on 1 November 2017, and raw milk/milk products will be added to the list of items subject to animal health quarantine.In G/SPS/N/JPN/471/Add.2 dated 16 February 2017, MAFF proposed the draft Animal Health Requirements to set out detailed import conditions including required statements in the health certificate to be applied to raw milk/milk products to be imported into Japan from 1 November 2017(*).In G/SPS/N/JPN/471/Add.3 dated 1 May 2017, MAFF proposed the adopted Animal Health Requirements for raw milk/milk products to be exported to Japan and the model format of the health certificate.
This is to notify Ukraine and Puerto Rico are added on Listed countries of the Annex of the adopted Animal Health Requirements:
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2017/SPS/JPN/17_3487_00_e.pdf(*)Note:
Raw milk/milk products arriving in Japan on and after 1 November 2017, including products exported from exporting countries before 1 November 2017, will need to be accompanied by the health certificate issued by the competent authority of the exporting country in accordance with the AHRs.