SLOVAK -- REPUBLIC: BREEDING AND COMMERCIAL PIGS The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6. G/TBT/Notif.96.421. 1. Member to Agreement notifying: SLOVAK REPUBLIC. If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2). 2. Agency responsible: Slovak Ministry of Agriculture. Agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification can be indicated if different from above. 3. Notified under Article 2.9.2. 4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Breeding boars and sows, breeding boar piglets and sow piglets, rearing sows and sow piglets, commercial pigs. 5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: STN 46 6150 Breeding and Commercial Pigs (13 pages, available in Slovak). 6. Description of content: Proposed Slovak Standard establishes categories of breeding, rearing, and commercial pigs. Furthermore, it describes methods for determination of the breeding value of pigs. The pigs evaluation is given by: reproduction ability, performance, fattening ability and meat efficiency, as well as the exterior of the animal. New methods for the performance and heredity inspection are taken into account, which has an effect on the breeding and rearing animals evaluation, namely stating their breeding value. The whole of Standard STN 46 6150 is obligatory. 7. Objective and rationale: Providing unified approach to evaluation and breeding value for determination for pigs. 8. Relevant documents: STN 46 6150 substitutes hitherto the valid Standard STN 46 6150 dated 1 February 1981; adoption announcement will be published in Vestni

AC T='1'>k UNMS SR (Official Journal). 9. Proposed date of adoption: Not determined; Proposed date of entry into force: Not determined. 10. Final date for comments: 28 February 1997. (0352)

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