§2578 Notice of United States Participation in International Standard-setting Activities

Summary

The President must pick an agency to tell the public about sanitary and phytosanitary standard-setting work by each international standards organization. By June 1 every year, that agency must publish a notice in the Federal Register covering the time since the last notice (the first notice must cover the one-year period ending on the notice date). The notice must list standards being considered or planned and, for each one, say how it will be considered, whether the United States will take part, the U.S. agenda if any, and which agency represents the U.S. The agency that represents the U.S. must allow public comment on the standards it handles and must consider those comments when taking part and when proposing items for the international group.