**4. Existing community legislation**

Currently Council Directive 2008/97/EC34 has been published amending Council Directive 96/22/EC concerning the prohibition on the use in stock farming of certain substances

to fill in the gaps". Accordingly, the United States claims, the EU's 2003 update to its hormone ban is not in compliance with its WTO obligations and should be discontinued.

For more detailed discussion see USDA, Foreign Agriculture Service, Historic Overview and Chronology of EU's Hormone Ban, GAIN Report E23206, Nov. 7, 2003, available at http://www.fas.usda.gov/gainfiles/200311/145986773.pdf Accessed August 26, 2011; USDA, FAS, EU Presentation on Hormone Ban Directive (2003/74/EC), GAIN Report E23217, Nov. 13, 2003, available at http://www.fas.usda.gov/gainfiles/200311/145986807.pdf Accessed August 26, 2011.

<sup>30</sup> http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/SafetyHealth/ProductSafetyInformation/ucm055436.htm Accessed August 23, 2011.

<sup>31</sup> See, "Coalition Statement on EU's Latest Pronouncement on Hormones," May 14, 2002 by AFBF, AHI, AMI, and NCBA, Available at http://www.meatami.com/ht/d/sp/i/1482/pid/1482 Accessed August 23, 2011.

<sup>32</sup> For other information, see WTO, European Communities – Measures Concerning Meat And Meat Products (Hormones), Joint Communication from the European Communities and the United States, WT/DS26/28, September 30, 2009; 74 Federal Register 40864, August 13, 2009; 74 Federal Register 48808, September 24, 2009; and USTR press releases.

<sup>33</sup> Council Regulations (EC) No 617/2009 of 13 July 2009 opening an autonomous tariff quota for imports of high-quality beef. Official Journal of the European Union, L series, No. 182, 1..

<sup>34</sup> Directive 2008/97/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 2008 amending Council Directive 96/22/EC concerning the prohibition on the use in stockfarming of certain substances

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