Regulatory Updates

Distribution date: 06 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 05 January 2025

This Draft East African Standard provides guidelines for the design and execution of studies to evaluate the performance of mosquito repellents formulated and prepared for spatial application. This guideline applies to products in any formulation intended to be applied in space.

Products Covered: Insecticides, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (excl. goods of subheadings 3808.52 to 3808.69) (HS code(s): 380891); Insecticides (ICS code(s): 65.100.10)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 06 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 05 January 2025

This Draft East African Standard provides guidelines for the design and execution of studies to evaluate the performance of mosquito repellents formulated and prepared for spatial application. This guideline applies to products in any formulation intended to be applied in space.

Products Covered: Insecticides, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (excl. goods of subheadings 3808.52 to 3808.69) (HS code(s): 380891); Insecticides (ICS code(s): 65.100.10)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 06 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 05 January 2025

This Draft East African Standard provides guidelines for the design and execution of studies to evaluate the performance of mosquito repellents formulated and prepared for spatial application. This guideline applies to products in any formulation intended to be applied in space.

Products Covered: Insecticides, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (excl. goods of subheadings 3808.52 to 3808.69) (HS code(s): 380891); Insecticides (ICS code(s): 65.100.10)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 06 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 05 January 2025

This draft Zanzibar national standard specifies requirements, method of sampling and test for food grade citric acid.

Products Covered: Carboxylic acids with aldehyde or ketone function but without other oxygen function, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, peroxyacids and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives (HS code(s): 291830); Cereals, pulses and derived products (ICS code(s): 67.060)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 04 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 03 January 2025

This draft Zanzibar national standard specifies requirements, method of sampling and test for food grade citric acid. Note: This Draft Tanzania Standard was also notified under TBT  Committee.

Products Covered: Carboxylic acids with aldehyde or ketone function but without other oxygen function, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, peroxyacids and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives (HS code(s): 291830); General methods of tests and analysis for food products (ICS code(s): 67.050)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 04 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 03 January 2025

This document specifies terms and definitions, requirements, test methods, inspection rules, decision rules, marking, transportation and storage of oral care and cleansing products.This document applies to oral care and cleansing products, including toothpaste, tooth powder, oral rinses, tooth strips, tooth whitening gel, denture cleanser and other daily products used for human teeth, oral mucosa or denture.

Products Covered: Toothpaste, dentifrice, oral rinses, tooth strips, tooth whitening gel, denture cleanser (HS code(s): 3306); (ICS code(s): 71.100.40)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 04 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 03 January 2025

This document specifies the chemical name, molecular formula, relative molecular weight and structural formula of Zinc threoninate chelate, specifies the technical requirements, inspection rules, labeling, packaging, transportation, storage and shelf life of feed additive Zinc threoninate chelate, and describes the sampling and test methods.This document applies to feed additive Zinc threoninate chelate products which are produced by chemical reaction with threonine and Zinc oxide as raw materials.

Products Covered: Zinc threoninate chelate (HS code(s): 23); (ICS code(s): 65.120)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 04 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 03 January 2025

This document specifies the chemical name, molecular formula and relative molecular weight of zinc glycinate, specifies the technical requirements, inspection rules, labeling, packaging, transportation, storage and shelf life of feed additive zinc glycinate, and describes the sampling and test methods.This document applies to feed additive zinc glycine products which are produced by chemical reaction with glycine and zinc sulfate as raw materials.

Products Covered: Zinc glycinate (HS code(s): 230990); (ICS code(s): 65.120)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 01 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 31 December 2024

These regulations introduce a ban on the supply and sale of wet wipes containing plastic for domestic purposes subject to exceptions. These regulations will apply to all businesses that operate in Northern Ireland. A "wet wipe" means a non-woven piece of fabric which has been pre-wetted, and which is not designed or intended to be re-used. Under these regulations "plastic" means a material consisting of polymer as defined in Article 3(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), to which additives or other substances may have been added, and which can function as a main structural component of final products, with the exception of natural polymers that have not been chemically modified.These restrictions will not apply to:The manufacture or import of wet wipes containing plastic.Supply and sale of wet wipes containing plastic, for the purpose of some business-to-business sales, as specified in the regulations.The supply and sale of wet wipes containing plastic by a retail pharmacy business, subject to exemptions.The supply of wet wipes containing plastic for use for medical purposes by or under the direction of a healthcare professional or by a healthcare professional for medical purposes.These regulations will apply in Northern Ireland. The other UK nations, England, Scotland and Wales will introduce their own legislation with the same intent and scope to ban wet wipes containing plastic in each of their respective nations.Breach of these prohibitions will be an offence under the regulations and will lead to a summary conviction of a fine. The draft legislation provides a transition period of 18 months for industry and retailers.

Products Covered: Organic surface-active agents (other than soap); surface-active preparations, washing preparations (including auxiliary washing preparations) and cleaning preparations, whether or not containing soap, other than those of heading 3401. (HS 3402) Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (for example, sulphur-treated bands, wicks and candles, and fly-papers) HS 3808)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 31 October 2024 | Final date for Comment: 30 December 2024

The notified text contains general principles for obtaining the Unified Sanitary Registration (RSU) Certificate for veterinary inputs for use in aquaculture, as an official guarantee of their quality, safety, security, efficiency and effectiveness for G/SPS/N/ECU/354 - 2 - use in the aquaculture production chain. The notified text also describes processes related to the post-registration control programme applicable during the period of validity of the Unified Sanitary Registration Certificate.

Products Covered: Animal products not elsewhere specified or included; dead animals of Chapter 1 or 3, unfit for human consumption (HS code: 05.11); algae, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground, not elsewhere specified or included (HS code: 12.12); yeasts (active or inactive); other single-cell micro-organisms, dead (but not including vaccines of heading 30.02) (HS code: 21.02); flours, meals and pellets, of meat or meat offal, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, unfit for human consumption (HS code: 23.01); preparations of a kind used in animal feeding (HS code: 23.09); provitamins and vitamins, natural or reproduced by synthesis (including natural concentrates), derivatives thereof used primarily as vitamins, and intermixtures of the foregoing, whether or not in any solvent (HS code: 29.36); antibiotics (HS code: 29.41); cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) and similar products (HS code: 30.02); animal or vegetable fertilisers, whether or not mixed together or chemically treated; fertilisers produced by the mixing or chemical treatment of animal or vegetable products (HS code: 31.01); Mineral or chemical fertilisers containing two or three of the fertilising elements nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium; other fertilisers; goods of this Chapter in tablets or similar forms or in packages of a gross weight not exceeding 10 kg (HS code: 31.05); peptones and their derivatives; other protein substances and their derivatives, not elsewhere specified or included (HS code: 35.04); Enzymes; prepared enzymes not elsewhere specified or included (HS code: 35.07); fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up in forms or packings for retail sale (HS code: 38.08)

Regulation Type: Regular notification