28. At its 29th Session, the Committee had agreed that the Proposed Draft Code should be redrafted by the Netherlands and circulated for comments at Step 3.[9]
29. The Delegation of the Netherlands introduced the proposed draft, highlighting improvements made by the drafting group in view of government comments received and asked for guidance from the Committee to proceed with its further elaboration.
30. The Committee noted that significant improvement had been made by the redrafting group. Despite the usefulness of the document, the Committee noted that a number of editorial and other comments received still needed to be considered and incorporated in the document. Such comments included the consistency of the definition for "semi-packed food" between different Codex texts, and the need to further consider the decision tree in the Table. As regards the list of previous cargoes, the Committee noted the proposal of the drafting group to record two previous cargoes. The Delegation of India indicated that it would be difficult to apply strict requirements at the farm level in developing countries. In view of these issues to be addressed, the Committee felt that additional time was needed to further improve the document and that government comments should be particularly sought to specify the Scope of the Code.
STATUS OF THE PROPOSED DRAFT CODE OF HYGIENIC PRACTICE FOR THE TRANSPORT OF FOODSTUFFS IN BULK AND SEMI-PACKED FOODSTUFFS
31. The Committee agreed that the document should be redrafted by the drafting group lead by the Netherlands with assistance from Brazil, Canada, Germany, France, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and the United States, and circulated for government comments at Step 3 prior to the next session of the Committee.
