Distribution date: 11 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 10 January 2025

This draft East African Standard gives the specifications which include mechanical, physical and chemical requirements of 27 distinct common cements, seven sulphate resisting common cements as well as three distinct low early strength blast furnace cements and two sulphate resisting low early strength blast cements and their constituents. 

Products Covered: Glaziers' putty, grafting putty, resin cements, caulking compounds and other mastics; painters' fillings (HS code(s): 321410); Construction materials (ICS code(s): 91.100)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 11 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 10 January 2025

This draft East African Standard gives the specifications which include mechanical, physical and chemical requirements of 27 distinct common cements, seven sulphate resisting common cements as well as three distinct low early strength blast furnace cements and two sulphate resisting low early strength blast cements and their constituents. 

Products Covered: Glaziers' putty, grafting putty, resin cements, caulking compounds and other mastics; painters' fillings (HS code(s): 321410); Construction materials (ICS code(s): 91.100)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 11 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 10 January 2025

This draft East African Standard gives the specifications which include mechanical, physical and chemical requirements of 27 distinct common cements, seven sulphate resisting common cements as well as three distinct low early strength blast furnace cements and two sulphate resisting low early strength blast cements and their constituents. 

Products Covered: Glaziers' putty, grafting putty, resin cements, caulking compounds and other mastics; painters' fillings (HS code(s): 321410); Construction materials (ICS code(s): 91.100)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 11 November 2024

Kazakhstan notified in G/SPS/N/KAZ/138 (6 July 2023) the Letter of the Committee for Veterinary Control and Surveillance of the Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan on the introduction of temporary restrictions on the importation into the territory of Kazakhstan from the territory of England, Scotland, Wales of Great Britain of live poultry and hatching eggs, down and feathers, poultry meat and all types of poultry products that have not undergone heat treatment (at least 70 °C), feed and feed additives for birds (except for feed additives of chemical and microbiological synthesis), hunting trophies that have not undergone taxidermy treatment (feathered game), used equipment for keeping, slaughtering and cutting birds susceptible to highly pathogenic avian influenza, as well as transit through the territory of Kazakhstan of live birds susceptible to highly pathogenic avian influenza virus.

Products Covered: Live poultry and hatching eggs, down and feathers, poultry meat and all types of poultry products, feed and feed additives for birds, hunting trophies, used equipment for keeping, slaughtering and butchering birds

Regulation Type: Addendum to Emergency Notification (SPS)

Distribution date: 11 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 10 January 2025

This draft East African Standard specifies the methods for the chemical analysis of cement.The standard describes the reference methods and, in certain cases, an alternative method which can be considered to be equivalent. In the case of dispute, only the reference methods are used.The standard also describes methods which apply principally to cements, but which can also be applied to their constituent materials and other materials.An alternative performance-based method using X-ray fluorescence (XRF) is described for SiO2, Al2O3, Fe2O3, CaO, MgO, SO3, K2O, Na2O, TiO2, P2O5, Mn2O3, SrO, Cl and Br. 

Products Covered: Glaziers' putty, grafting putty, resin cements, caulking compounds and other mastics; painters' fillings (HS code(s): 321410); Construction materials (ICS code(s): 91.100)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 11 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 10 January 2025

This draft East African Standard specifies the methods for the chemical analysis of cement.The standard describes the reference methods and, in certain cases, an alternative method which can be considered to be equivalent. In the case of dispute, only the reference methods are used.The standard also describes methods which apply principally to cements, but which can also be applied to their constituent materials and other materials.An alternative performance-based method using X-ray fluorescence (XRF) is described for SiO2, Al2O3, Fe2O3, CaO, MgO, SO3, K2O, Na2O, TiO2, P2O5, Mn2O3, SrO, Cl and Br. 

Products Covered: Glaziers' putty, grafting putty, resin cements, caulking compounds and other mastics; painters' fillings (HS code(s): 321410); Construction materials (ICS code(s): 91.100)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 11 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 10 January 2025

This draft East African Standard specifies the methods for the chemical analysis of cement.The standard describes the reference methods and, in certain cases, an alternative method which can be considered to be equivalent. In the case of dispute, only the reference methods are used.The standard also describes methods which apply principally to cements, but which can also be applied to their constituent materials and other materials.An alternative performance-based method using X-ray fluorescence (XRF) is described for SiO2, Al2O3, Fe2O3, CaO, MgO, SO3, K2O, Na2O, TiO2, P2O5, Mn2O3, SrO, Cl and Br. 

Products Covered: Glaziers' putty, grafting putty, resin cements, caulking compounds and other mastics; painters' fillings (HS code(s): 321410); Construction materials (ICS code(s): 91.100)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 11 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 10 January 2025

This draft East African Standard specifies the methods for the chemical analysis of cement.The standard describes the reference methods and, in certain cases, an alternative method which can be considered to be equivalent. In the case of dispute, only the reference methods are used.The standard also describes methods which apply principally to cements, but which can also be applied to their constituent materials and other materials.An alternative performance-based method using X-ray fluorescence (XRF) is described for SiO2, Al2O3, Fe2O3, CaO, MgO, SO3, K2O, Na2O, TiO2, P2O5, Mn2O3, SrO, Cl and Br. 

Products Covered: Glaziers' putty, grafting putty, resin cements, caulking compounds and other mastics; painters' fillings (HS code(s): 321410); Construction materials (ICS code(s): 91.100)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 11 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 10 January 2025

This draft East African Standard specifies the methods for the chemical analysis of cement.The standard describes the reference methods and, in certain cases, an alternative method which can be considered to be equivalent. In the case of dispute, only the reference methods are used.The standard also describes methods which apply principally to cements, but which can also be applied to their constituent materials and other materials.An alternative performance-based method using X-ray fluorescence (XRF) is described for SiO2, Al2O3, Fe2O3, CaO, MgO, SO3, K2O, Na2O, TiO2, P2O5, Mn2O3, SrO, Cl and Br. 

Products Covered: Glaziers' putty, grafting putty, resin cements, caulking compounds and other mastics; painters' fillings (HS code(s): 321410); Construction materials (ICS code(s): 91.100)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 08 November 2024

The notified Executive Decree updates the classification of personal hygiene products, cosmetics and perfumes in order to prioritize regulatory actions on products that require greater sanitary surveillance owing to their target audience, area of application, specific formulation or proposed use. The new regulations will apply in the territory of the member States of MERCOSUR, to trade among them and to imports from outside the MERCOSUR area.

Products Covered: Personal hygiene products, cosmetics and perfumes

Regulation Type: Regular notification