Regulatory Updates
Letters of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision regarding the temporary restriction on import of live poultry, incubative eggs, down and feather, poultry and all types of poultry products from Markisch-Oderland district, Brandenburg (Germany)
Distribution date: 05 December 2013
The Russian Federation notified in G/SPS/N/RUS/16 (8 March 2013) letters of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision No. FS-AS-7/2057 as of 22 February 2013 and No. FS-AS-7/2242 as of 28 February 2013, which introduced a temporary restriction on import of live poultry, incubative eggs, down and feather, poultry and all types of poultry products, from Markisch-Oderland district, Brandenburg (Germany) due to low pathogenic avian influenza (AI) outbreak. The notified measure was eliminated by the letter of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision No. FS-AS-7/12177 as of 13 September 2013.
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Regulation Type: Addendum to Emergency Notification (SPS)
Draft Ministry of Public Health Notification entitled "Feeding Bottle and Liquid Milk Container for Infants and Young Children"
Distribution date: 03 December 2013 | Final date for Comment: 01 February 2014
Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) Notification No.117 B.E. 2532 (1989) entitled "Feeding Bottle" to be replaced with Draft Ministry of Public Health Notification entitled "Feeding Bottle and Liquid Milk Container for Infants and Young Children". The draft MOPH Notification proposes to revise the measure pertaining to Feeding Bottle as follows: (1) This draft MOPH notification shall apply to - feeding bottles and its components (protective cover, feeding teat, locking ring and sealing disc) - liquid milk containers for infants and young children (for both repeated use containers and single use containers) (2) Prescribe permitted list of materials which are used to make feeding bottles and liquid milk containers for infants and young children. (3) Prescribe the general requirements for feeding bottles and its components as well as liquid milk containers for infants and young children. (4) Prescribe the specific requirements on substances for materials which are used to make feeding bottles and its components as well as liquid milk containers for infants and young children. (5) Feeding bottles, that are authorized to be sold prior to the effective date of this notification, are allowed to be sold not exceeding one year as from the effective date of this notification. (6) This MOPH notification will be enforced 180 days after the notification being announced in the Thai royal Gazette.
Products Covered: Feeding bottle and liquid milk container for infants and young children (HS Code: 392490; ICS Code: 67.250)
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Draft Ministry of Public Health Notification entitled "Feeding Bottle and Liquid Milk Container for Infants and Young Children"
Distribution date: 03 December 2013 | Final date for Comment: 01 February 2014
Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) Notification No.117 B.E. 2532 (1989) entitled "Feeding Bottle" to be replaced with Draft Ministry of Public Health Notification entitled "Feeding Bottle and Liquid Milk Container for Infants and Young Children". The draft MOPH Notification proposes to revise the measure pertaining to Feeding Bottle as follows: (1) This draft MOPH notification shall apply to - feeding bottles and its components (protective cover, feeding teat, locking ring and sealing disc) - liquid milk containers for infants and young children (for both repeated use containers and single use containers) (2) Prescribe permitted list of materials which are used to make feeding bottles and liquid milk containers for infants and young children. (3) Prescribe the general requirements for feeding bottles and its components as well as liquid milk containers for infants and young children. (4) Prescribe the specific requirements on substances for materials which are used to make feeding bottles and its components as well as liquid milk containers for infants and young children. (5) Feeding bottles, that are authorized to be sold prior to the effective date of this notification, are allowed to be sold not exceeding one year as from the effective date of this notification. (6) This MOPH notification will be enforced 180 days after the notification being announced in the Thai royal Gazette.
Products Covered: Feeding bottle and liquid milk container for infants and young children (HS Code: 392490; ICS Code: 67.250)
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Dangerous substances and mixtures: Classification, labelling, marking and packaging (44 pages, in Hebrew).
Distribution date: 03 December 2013 | Final date for Comment: 01 February 2014
<p style="margin-top:6pt;"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-face:Verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="letter-spacing:-0.1pt;font-size:9pt;"><span>Revision of the partially mandatory standard SI 2302 part 1 dealing with d</span></span></span>angerous substances and mixtures<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="letter-spacing:-0.1pt;">. This draft standard revision is based, with a few changes and national deviations on the UN document "</span></span><em>Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS)</em>"<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="letter-spacing:-0.1pt;"><span>.</span> This regulation is gradually replacing the 2 European directives which were the base for the standard's earlier edition (67/548/EEC and 1999/45/EC) and that should be cancelled on 1 June 2015. The UN regulation's parts dealing with </span></span>substances had already entered into force in Europe in2010 and the regulation's parts dealing with mixtures should enter into force in 2015.</p><p style="margin-top:6pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="letter-spacing:-0.1pt;">Among the major </span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="letter-spacing:-0.1pt;">differences introduced in this new revised draft standard we wish to emphasise the replacement of the R-phrases (risk phrases) and S</span></span>-phrases (safety phrases) in Hazard Statements (H) and in the precautionary statements (P).</p>
Products Covered: Dangerous substances and mixtures
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Dangerous substances and mixtures: Classification, labelling, marking and packaging (44 pages, in Hebrew).
Distribution date: 03 December 2013 | Final date for Comment: 01 February 2014
<p style="margin-top:6pt;"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-face:Verdana;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="letter-spacing:-0.1pt;font-size:9pt;"><span>Revision of the partially mandatory standard SI 2302 part 1 dealing with d</span></span></span>angerous substances and mixtures<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="letter-spacing:-0.1pt;">. This draft standard revision is based, with a few changes and national deviations on the UN document "</span></span><em>Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS)</em>"<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="letter-spacing:-0.1pt;"><span>.</span> This regulation is gradually replacing the 2 European directives which were the base for the standard's earlier edition (67/548/EEC and 1999/45/EC) and that should be cancelled on 1 June 2015. The UN regulation's parts dealing with </span></span>substances had already entered into force in Europe in2010 and the regulation's parts dealing with mixtures should enter into force in 2015.</p><p style="margin-top:6pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="letter-spacing:-0.1pt;">Among the major </span></span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="letter-spacing:-0.1pt;">differences introduced in this new revised draft standard we wish to emphasise the replacement of the R-phrases (risk phrases) and S</span></span>-phrases (safety phrases) in Hazard Statements (H) and in the precautionary statements (P).</p>
Products Covered: Dangerous substances and mixtures
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Revision of the Standards and Specifications for Foods and Food Additives under the Food Sanitation Law (revision of agricultural chemical residue standards)
Distribution date: 03 December 2013 | Final date for Comment: 05 January 2014
Proposed maximum residue limits (MRLs) for the following agricultural chemicals: Pesticide/feed additive: Ethoxyquin.
Products Covered: - Meat and edible meat offal (HS Codes: 02.01, 02.02, 02.03, 02.04, 02.05, 02.06, 02.07, 02.08 and 02.09) - Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates (HS Codes: 03.02, 03.03, 03.04 and 03.06) - Dairy produce, birds' eggs and natural honey (HS Codes: 04.01, 04.07 and 04.08) - Products of animal origin (HS Code: 05.04) - Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers (HS Codes: 07.01, 07.02, 07.03, 07.04, 07.05, 07.06, 07.07, 07.08, 07.09, 07.10, 07.13 and 07.14) - Edible fruits and nuts, peel of citrus/melons (HS Codes: 08.01, 08.02, 08.03, 08.04, 08.05, 08.06, 08.07, 08.08, 08.09, 08.10, 08.11 and 08.14) - Coffee, tea, mate and spices (HS Codes: 09.01, 09.02, 09.03, 09.04, 09.05, 09.06, 09.07, 09.08, 09.09 and 09.10) - Cereals (HS Codes: 10.01, 10.02, 10.03, 10.04, 10.05, 10.06, 10.07 and 10.08) - Oleaginous fruits, miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruits (HS Codes: 12.01, 12.02, 12.04, 12.05, 12.06, 12.07, 12.10 and 12.12) - Animal or vegetable fats and oils (HS Codes: 15.01, 15.02 and 15.06) - Cacao and cacao preparations (HS Code: 18.01)
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Revision of the Standards and Specifications for Foods and Food Additives under the Food Sanitation Law (revision of agricultural chemical residue standards)
Distribution date: 03 December 2013 | Final date for Comment: 05 January 2014
Proposed maximum residue limits (MRLs) for the following agricultural chemicals: Pesticide/feed additive: Ethoxyquin.
Products Covered: - Meat and edible meat offal (HS Codes: 02.01, 02.02, 02.03, 02.04, 02.05, 02.06, 02.07, 02.08 and 02.09) - Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates (HS Codes: 03.02, 03.03, 03.04 and 03.06) - Dairy produce, birds' eggs and natural honey (HS Codes: 04.01, 04.07 and 04.08) - Products of animal origin (HS Code: 05.04) - Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers (HS Codes: 07.01, 07.02, 07.03, 07.04, 07.05, 07.06, 07.07, 07.08, 07.09, 07.10, 07.13 and 07.14) - Edible fruits and nuts, peel of citrus/melons (HS Codes: 08.01, 08.02, 08.03, 08.04, 08.05, 08.06, 08.07, 08.08, 08.09, 08.10, 08.11 and 08.14) - Coffee, tea, mate and spices (HS Codes: 09.01, 09.02, 09.03, 09.04, 09.05, 09.06, 09.07, 09.08, 09.09 and 09.10) - Cereals (HS Codes: 10.01, 10.02, 10.03, 10.04, 10.05, 10.06, 10.07 and 10.08) - Oleaginous fruits, miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruits (HS Codes: 12.01, 12.02, 12.04, 12.05, 12.06, 12.07, 12.10 and 12.12) - Animal or vegetable fats and oils (HS Codes: 15.01, 15.02 and 15.06) - Cacao and cacao preparations (HS Code: 18.01)
Regulation Type: Regular notification
; ; ;The Republic of Ecuador hereby advises that the first revision (1R) of Technical Regulation (RTE) No. 040 "Welding of steel structures" of the Ecuadorian Standardization Institute (INEN), notified in document G/TBT/N/ECU/40/Add.1 of 4 September 2009, was issued pursuant to Resolution No. 13 375 of 22 October 2013 of the Under-Secretariat for Quality of the Ministry of Industry and Productivity, published in Official Journal No. 124 of 15 November 2013. ; ;Text available from: ;Ministerio de Industrias y Productividad (Ministry of Industry and Productivity) ;Subsecretaría de la Calidad (Under-Secretariat for Quality) ;Organismo Nacional encargado de la Notificación (National Notification Authority) ; ;Contact person: Marlon Martínez B. ;Yánez Pinzón No. 26-12 y Av. Colón, Edf. Rigel ;Quito, Ecuador ;Tel.: +593 2 394-8760, Ext. 2358/2255 ;Email: [email protected]; [email protected] ; ;
Distribution date: 28 November 2013
Products Covered: HS tariff subheadings 3810.90.10.00; 3810.90.20.00; 8311.10.00.00; 8311.20.00.00; 8311.30.00.00; 8311.90.00.00
Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification
; ; ;The Republic of Ecuador hereby advises that the first revision (1R) of Technical Regulation (RTE) No. 040 "Welding of steel structures" of the Ecuadorian Standardization Institute (INEN), notified in document G/TBT/N/ECU/40/Add.1 of 4 September 2009, was issued pursuant to Resolution No. 13 375 of 22 October 2013 of the Under-Secretariat for Quality of the Ministry of Industry and Productivity, published in Official Journal No. 124 of 15 November 2013. ; ;Text available from: ;Ministerio de Industrias y Productividad (Ministry of Industry and Productivity) ;Subsecretaría de la Calidad (Under-Secretariat for Quality) ;Organismo Nacional encargado de la Notificación (National Notification Authority) ; ;Contact person: Marlon Martínez B. ;Yánez Pinzón No. 26-12 y Av. Colón, Edf. Rigel ;Quito, Ecuador ;Tel.: +593 2 394-8760, Ext. 2358/2255 ;Email: [email protected]; [email protected] ; ;
Distribution date: 28 November 2013
Products Covered: HS tariff subheadings 3810.90.10.00; 3810.90.20.00; 8311.10.00.00; 8311.20.00.00; 8311.30.00.00; 8311.90.00.00
Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification
KS 2516:2013 Shellac varnish Specifications (12 pages in English)
Distribution date: 28 November 2013 | Final date for Comment: 27 January 2014
<span style="font-size:x-small;font-face:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif';font-size:9pt;">P</span></span><span style="font-size:small;font-face:Arial;"><span style="font-family:'Arial','sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">rescribes the requirement and methods of sampling and test for shellac <span> </span>varnish used for protection and decoration of wooden surfaces</span></span>
Products Covered: Varnishes (HS: 3208; ICS: 87.040)
Regulation Type: Regular notification
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