4. A Party maintaining an approval procedure may require its approval for the use of an additive, or its establishment of a tolerance for a contaminant, in a food, beverage or feedstuff, under such procedure, prior to granting access to its domestic market for a food, beverage or feedstuff containing such additive or contaminant. Where such Party so requires, it shall consider using a relevant international standard, guideline or recommendation as the basis for granting access until it completes such procedure.
Article 760: Notification, Publication and Provision of
Information
1. Further to Articles 1802 and 1803, each Party proposing to adopt or modify a sanitary or phytosanitary measure of general application at the federal level shall:
(a) at least 60 days prior to the adoption or modification of such measure, other than a law, publish a notice and notify in writing the other Parties of the proposed measure and provide to the other Parties and publish the full text of the proposed measure, in such a manner as to enable interested persons to become acquainted with the proposed measure;
(b) identify in such notice and notification the good to which the proposed measure would apply, and provide a brief description of the objective and reasons for such measure;
(c) provide a copy of such proposed measure to any Party or
interested person that so requests and, wherever
possible, identify any provision that deviates in
substance from relevant international standards,
guidelines or recommendations; and
(d) without discrimination, allow other Parties and
interested persons to make comments in writing and
shall, upon request, discuss such comments and take the
comments and the results of such discussions into
account.
2. Each Party shall seek, through appropriate measures, to ensure, with respect to a sanitary or phytosanitary measure of a state or provincial government:
(a) that, at an early appropriate stage, a notice and notification of the type referred to in paragraphs 1(a) and (b) are made prior to their adoption; and
(b) observance of paragraphs 1(c) and (d).