APPROVED VERSION – COMMITTEE OF THE MINISTERS OF TRADE - 17 July 2014 - SADC/CMT/26/2014/8.2 recommendation, and if the regulation may have a significant effect on trade of other Member States, Member States shall: a) publish a notice at an early stage in such a manner as to enable interested Member States to become acquainted with the proposal to introduce a particular regulation; b) notify other Member States, through the WTO Secretariat, of the products to be covered by the regulation together with a brief indication of the objective and rationale of the proposed regulation. Such notifications shall take place at an early stage, when amendments can still be introduced and comments taken into account; c) provide upon request of other Member States copies of the proposed regulation and, whenever possible, identify the parts which in substance deviate from international standards, guidelines or recommendations; d) without discrimination, allow reasonable time for other Member States to make comments in writing, discuss these comments upon request, and take the comments and the results of the discussions into account. 6. However, where urgent problems of health protection arise or threaten to arise for a Member State, that Member State may omit such steps enumerated in paragraph 5 of this Appendix as it finds necessary, provided that the Member State: a) immediately notifies other Member States, through the WTO Secretariat of the particular regulation and the products covered, with a brief indication of the objective and the rationale of the regulation, including the nature of the urgent problem(s); b) provides, upon request, copies of the regulation to other Member States; c) allows other Member States to make comments in writing, discusses these comments upon request, and takes the comments and the results of the discussions into account. 7. Notifications to the WTO Secretariat shall be in the languages of the WTO. . 8. Each Member State’s National Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, in cooperation with its WTO SPS National Notification Authority and Enquiry Point(s), shall be responsible for the implementation at the national level of the provisions concerning notification procedures according to this Appendix. Page 15 of 18