95. The Chairman recalled that the last session of the Committee had agreed to develop a standard for molluscan shelfish, to be focused on bivalve moluscs. The Delegation of the Netherlands informed the Committee that the draft was targeted to cover all types of bivalve molluscs since they were high risk products and traded worldwide, and invited delegates to provide their comments on the scope of the draft, while confirming that it would proceed with this work.
96. The Delegation of Indonesia suggested to broaden the scope of the drafts on smoked fish and molluscan shellfish indicating that they should cover also tropical products. It was confirmed that both standards were intended to be of general application, and countries were invited to provide comments at this stage directly to the Netherlands in order to prepare a draft in good time and to circulate it for government comments prior to the next session of the Committee.
