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

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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

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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)

Human health Animal health Food safety Animal diseases Avian Influenza Zoonoses

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) 

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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.

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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

Animal health Animal feed Veterinary drugs Animal diseases

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)

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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

Food standards

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

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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

Plant health Food safety Pests Human health

Provisions for Cosmetics Inspection (Draft)

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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

Human health

Proposed Great Britain (GB) mandatory classification and labelling of 98 hazardous chemical substances

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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

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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

Human health

Draft Resolution 1215, 26 October 2023

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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

Human health Food safety Pesticides

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