Imported Product: Withdrawal of Czechoslovakia; Addition of the Czech Republic to the List of Eligible Countries

The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is amending the Federal meat inspection regulations (9 CFR 327.2) to affirm that the newly formed country of the Czech Republic continues to be eligible to have its meat products imported into the United States. The regulations are also amended to delete Czechoslovakia from the list of countries eligible to have their meat products imported into the United States. Based on mutual agreement, Czechoslovakia peacefully divided into the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic on January 1, 1993. The meat inspection program recognized by the United States as meeting the requirements of the Federal meat inspection regulations and eligible to have its meat products imported into the United States is a program of the Czech Republic.