Draft of the Egyptian Standard ES for “Railway applications - Track - Concrete sleepers and bearers - Part 1: General requirements”

Distribution date: 14 November 2023 | Final date for Comment: 13 January 2024
This draft Standard defines technical criteria and control procedures which need to be satisfied by the constituent materials and the finished concrete sleepers and bearers, i.e.: precast concrete sleepers, twin-block reinforced sleepers, bearers for s
Products Covered: Concrete and concrete products (ICS code(s): 91.100.30); Construction of railways (ICS code(s): 93.100)
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Letter of the Committee for Veterinary Control and Surveillance of the Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan on the introduction of temporary restrictio

Distribution date: 09 November 2023 | Final date for Comment: 01 March 2025
The Committee for Veterinary Control and Surveillance of the Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan reports that on the basis of the official notification of the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH), an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influen
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: Emergency notifications (SPS)
Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on fluorinated greenhouse gases, amending Directive (EU) 2019/1937 and repealing Regulation (EU) No 517/2014 (COM(2022) 150 final)

Distribution date: 09 November 2023 | Final date for Comment: 08 January 2024
This Commission proposal, inter alia, imposes quantitative limits for the placing on the market of hydrofluorocarbons and also imposes conditions on the import, export, placing on the market, further supply and use of fluorinated greenhouse gases and s
Products Covered: Fluorinated greenhouse gases listed in Annexes I, II and III as well as products and equipment referred to in Article 19 and listed in Annex IV of the Commission Proposal
Regulation Type: Regular notification
The following communication, received on 9 November 2023, is being circulated at the request of the delegation of Mexico.

Distribution date: 09 November 2023 | Final date for Comment: 01 March 2025
Se informa sobre la publicación, en el Diario Oficial de la Federación el 9 de octubre de 2023, de las respuestas a los comentarios y modificaciones efectuadas al Proyecto de Modificación a la Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM-012-ZOO-1993, Especificaciones p
Products Covered: Productos químicos, farmacéuticos, biológicos y alimenticios para uso en animales o consumo por éstos
Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification
Regulations Amending Certain Regulations Concerning Food Additives and Compositional Standards, Microbiological Criteria and Methods of Analysis for Food (107 pages, available in English and French)

Distribution date: 08 November 2023 | Final date for Comment: 02 February 2024
The proposed regulations would amend Part B of the Food and Drug Regulations (FDR), along with targeted amendments to Parts A and D of the FDR. In particular, the proposed amendments include introducing modernized frameworks for setting, an
Products Covered: Food products in general (ICS: 67.040)
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Modificación de los requisitos fitosanitarios para la importación de diversos productos, hospederos de Epiphyas postvittana, originarios y procedentes de Estados Unidos de América, debido a su reclasificación de condición fitosanitaria en ese pa

Distribution date: 08 November 2023 | Final date for Comment: 07 January 2024
La Dirección General de Sanidad Vegetal (DGSV) es la encargada de la protección fitosanitaria en México, para lo cual, establece las medidas fitosanitarias que mitiguen el riesgo de introducción o diseminación de plagas reglamentadas de los vegetales,
Products Covered: Diversos productos hospederos de Epiphyas postvittana, mismos que se enlistan en el documento anexo.
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Provisions for Cosmetics Inspection (Draft)

Distribution date: 08 November 2023 | Final date for Comment: 07 January 2024
The document is to strengthen the supervision of inspecting for cosmetics, and safeguard the consumers’ health.
Products Covered: Cosmetics (HS code(s): 33); (ICS code(s): 71.100.70)
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Proposed Great Britain (GB) mandatory classification and labelling of 98 hazardous chemical substances

Distribution date: 07 November 2023 | Final date for Comment: 01 March 2025
The Ministerial decision, made with consent of the Devolved Governments (Scottish and Welsh Government Ministers), was adopted on 23 September 2023, published on 20 October 2023, and enters into force on 20 October 2023 (voluntary), 20 April 2025 (mand
Products Covered: Hazardous substances. Products of the chemical industry (ICS code(s): 71.100)
Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification
Toxic Free Kids Modernization Act

Distribution date: 07 November 2023 | Final date for Comment: 21 November 2023
House Bill (HB) 3043 (Oregon Laws 2023, chapter 426) was passed by the Oregon Legislature during the 2023 legislative session and signed into law by Governor T
Products Covered: Toxic chemicals in children's products
Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification
Draft Resolution 1215, 26 October 2023

Distribution date: 07 November 2023 | Final date for Comment: 29 December 2023
This draft resolution proposes monographs changes on the Monograph List of Active Ingredients for Pesticides, Household Cleaning Products and Wood Preservatives, which was published by Normative Instruction 103 on 19 October 2021 in the Brazilian Offic
Products Covered: Environment. Health protection. Safety (ICS codes: 13)
Regulation Type: Regular notification
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