Regulatory Updates

Distribution date: 10 July 2024

Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda would like to inform WTO Members that the Draft East African Standard; DEAS 324: 2023, Copper/chromium/arsenic compositions for the preservation of timber — Method for timber treatment, Second Edition; notified in G/TBT/N/BDI/361, G/TBT/N/KEN/1441, G/TBT/N/RWA/872, G/TBT/N/TZA/975 and G/TBT/N/UGA/1777 was adopted by the East African Community Council of Ministers on 14 June 2024.

Products Covered: Copper ores and concentrates. (HS code(s): 2603); Chromium ores and concentrates. (HS code(s): 2610); Arsenic (HS code(s): 280480); Chromium ores (ICS code(s): 73.060.30); Copper products (ICS code(s): 77.150.30)

Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification

Distribution date: 10 July 2024 | Final date for Comment: 08 September 2024

This Draft Uganda Standard covers the chemical analysis of engine coolant for chloride ion by high-performance ion chromatography (HPIC). Several other common anions found in engine coolant can be determined in one chromatographic analysis by this test method. This test method is applicable to both new and used engine coolant. Coelution of other ions may cause interferences for any of the listed anions. In the case of unfamiliar formulations, identification verification should be performed by either or both fortification and dilution of the sample matrix with the anions of interest. Analysis can be performed directly by this test method without pretreatment, other than dilution, as required by the linear ranges of the equipment.

Products Covered: MISCELLANEOUS CHEMICAL PRODUCTS (HS code(s): 38); Chemical technology (ICS code(s): 71)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 08 July 2024 | Final date for Comment: 06 September 2024

The draft on animal health requirements for imports of used cooking oil intended for technical uses (production of renewable fuels and oleochemical products) introduces harmonized EU requirements and replaces current national rules of 27 EU member States. The main objective of the draft is prevention of entry of used cooking oil into feed for farmed animals within the European Union and thereby to mitigate potential biological hazards in feed.The draft introduced the following requirements:            A consignment of used cooking oil must come from a registered storage or collection plant listed in the EU TRACES system [https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/tracesnt/directory/listing/establishment/publication/index#!/search];            A consignment must be presented at an EU veterinary border control post and be monitored in the European Union until reaches its place of destination after import;            A consignment of used cooking oil must be accompanied by a commercial declaration signed by the importers stated that used cooking oil is not intended for feeding farmed animals and that water and solid particles of more than 6 mm, to reach a combined amount of moisture and solid particles of not more than 10% w/w* at the time of dispatch.

Products Covered: Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidised, dehydrated, sulphurised, blown, polymerised by heat in vacuum or in inert gas or otherwise chemically modified, excluding those of heading 15.16; inedible mixtures or preparations of animal, vegetable or microbial fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or oils of this Chapter, not elsewhere specified or included. (HS code(s): 1518); Municipal waste (HS code(s): 382510)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 05 July 2024

Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda would like to inform WTO Members that the Draft East African Standard - DEAS 1128: 2023, Food grade acesulfame potassium — Specification, First Edition - notified in G/SPS/N/BDI/42, G/SPS/N/KEN/198, G/SPS/N/RWA/35, G/SPS/N/TZA/256 and G/SPS/N/UGA/239, was adopted by the East African Community Council of Ministers on 14 June 2024.

Products Covered: Nucleic acids and their salts, whether or not chemically defined; heterocyclic compounds (excl. with oxygen only or with nitrogen hetero-atom[s] only, compounds containing in the structure an unfused thiazole ring or a benzothiazole or phenothiazine ring-system, not further fused and aminorex "INN", brotizolam "INN", clotiazepam "INN", cloxazolam "INN", dextromoramide "INN", haloxazolam "INN", ketazolam "INN", mesocarb "INN", oxazolam "INN", pemoline "INN", phendimetrazine "INN", phenmetrazine "INN", sufentanil "INN", and salts thereof, and inorganic or organic compounds of mercury whether or not chemically defined, and products of 3002 10) (HS code(s): 293499); Food additives (ICS code(s): 67.220.20)

Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification

Distribution date: 05 July 2024

Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda would like to inform WTO Members that the Draft East African Standard - DEAS 1128: 2023, Food grade acesulfame potassium — Specification, First Edition - notified in G/SPS/N/BDI/42, G/SPS/N/KEN/198, G/SPS/N/RWA/35, G/SPS/N/TZA/256 and G/SPS/N/UGA/239, was adopted by the East African Community Council of Ministers on 14 June 2024.

Products Covered: Nucleic acids and their salts, whether or not chemically defined; heterocyclic compounds (excl. with oxygen only or with nitrogen hetero-atom[s] only, compounds containing in the structure an unfused thiazole ring or a benzothiazole or phenothiazine ring-system, not further fused and aminorex "INN", brotizolam "INN", clotiazepam "INN", cloxazolam "INN", dextromoramide "INN", haloxazolam "INN", ketazolam "INN", mesocarb "INN", oxazolam "INN", pemoline "INN", phendimetrazine "INN", phenmetrazine "INN", sufentanil "INN", and salts thereof, and inorganic or organic compounds of mercury whether or not chemically defined, and products of 3002 10) (HS code(s): 293499); Food additives (ICS code(s): 67.220.20)

Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification

Distribution date: 05 July 2024

Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda would like to inform WTO Members that the Draft East African Standard - DEAS 1128: 2023, Food grade acesulfame potassium — Specification, First Edition - notified in G/SPS/N/BDI/42, G/SPS/N/KEN/198, G/SPS/N/RWA/35, G/SPS/N/TZA/256 and G/SPS/N/UGA/239, was adopted by the East African Community Council of Ministers on 14 June 2024.

Products Covered: Nucleic acids and their salts, whether or not chemically defined; heterocyclic compounds (excl. with oxygen only or with nitrogen hetero-atom[s] only, compounds containing in the structure an unfused thiazole ring or a benzothiazole or phenothiazine ring-system, not further fused and aminorex "INN", brotizolam "INN", clotiazepam "INN", cloxazolam "INN", dextromoramide "INN", haloxazolam "INN", ketazolam "INN", mesocarb "INN", oxazolam "INN", pemoline "INN", phendimetrazine "INN", phenmetrazine "INN", sufentanil "INN", and salts thereof, and inorganic or organic compounds of mercury whether or not chemically defined, and products of 3002 10) (HS code(s): 293499); Food additives (ICS code(s): 67.220.20)

Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification

Distribution date: 05 July 2024

Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda would like to inform WTO Members that the Draft East African Standard - DEAS 1128: 2023, Food grade acesulfame potassium — Specification, First Edition - notified in G/SPS/N/BDI/42, G/SPS/N/KEN/198, G/SPS/N/RWA/35, G/SPS/N/TZA/256 and G/SPS/N/UGA/239, was adopted by the East African Community Council of Ministers on 14 June 2024.

Products Covered: Nucleic acids and their salts, whether or not chemically defined; heterocyclic compounds (excl. with oxygen only or with nitrogen hetero-atom[s] only, compounds containing in the structure an unfused thiazole ring or a benzothiazole or phenothiazine ring-system, not further fused and aminorex "INN", brotizolam "INN", clotiazepam "INN", cloxazolam "INN", dextromoramide "INN", haloxazolam "INN", ketazolam "INN", mesocarb "INN", oxazolam "INN", pemoline "INN", phendimetrazine "INN", phenmetrazine "INN", sufentanil "INN", and salts thereof, and inorganic or organic compounds of mercury whether or not chemically defined, and products of 3002 10) (HS code(s): 293499); Food additives (ICS code(s): 67.220.20)

Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification

Distribution date: 05 July 2024

Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda would like to inform WTO Members that the Draft East African Standard - DEAS 1128: 2023, Food grade acesulfame potassium — Specification, First Edition - notified in G/SPS/N/BDI/42, G/SPS/N/KEN/198, G/SPS/N/RWA/35, G/SPS/N/TZA/256 and G/SPS/N/UGA/239, was adopted by the East African Community Council of Ministers on 14 June 2024.

Products Covered: Nucleic acids and their salts, whether or not chemically defined; heterocyclic compounds (excl. with oxygen only or with nitrogen hetero-atom[s] only, compounds containing in the structure an unfused thiazole ring or a benzothiazole or phenothiazine ring-system, not further fused and aminorex "INN", brotizolam "INN", clotiazepam "INN", cloxazolam "INN", dextromoramide "INN", haloxazolam "INN", ketazolam "INN", mesocarb "INN", oxazolam "INN", pemoline "INN", phendimetrazine "INN", phenmetrazine "INN", sufentanil "INN", and salts thereof, and inorganic or organic compounds of mercury whether or not chemically defined, and products of 3002 10) (HS code(s): 293499); Food additives (ICS code(s): 67.220.20)

Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification

Distribution date: 04 July 2024

The Resolution 886, 26 Junho 2024 - previously notified through  G/TBT/N/BRA/1297/Add.2 - which contains provisions on the identification of regularized medical devices at Anvisa, through the Unique Device Identification (UDI) system, was rectified. Where it reads: "Resolution 886, 26 June 2024"; Read: "Resolution 884, 26 June 26 2024". The republished text is available only in Portuguese and can be downloaded at:  https://www.in.gov.br/en/web/dou/-/retificacao-569312444

Products Covered: HS (3006)

Regulation Type: Corrigendum to Regular Notification

Distribution date: 04 July 2024 | Final date for Comment: 02 September 2024

Based on Article 2, Paragraph 1 of the Act on Preventing Mercury Pollution of the Environment, the above products will be designated as specified mercury-using products whose manufacture is particularly in need of regulation. Their usage as components in the manufacture of other products will also be regulated. 

Products Covered: Specified mercury-using products listed below:   Specified mercury-using productsEntry DateButton zinc silver oxide batteries with a mercury content < 1% [1]and button zinc air batteries with a mercury content < 2%1.1.2026Compact fluorescent lamps with an integrated ballast (CFL.i) for general lighting purposes that are ≤ 30 watts with a mercury content not exceeding 5 mg per lamp burner1.1.2026Cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFL) and external electrode fluorescent lamps (EEFL) of all lengths for electronic displays, not included in the listing directly below.(a) short length (≤ 500 mm) with mercury content exceeding 3.5 mg per lamp(b) medium length (> 500 mm and ≤ 1 500 mm) with mercury content exceeding 5 mg per lamp(c) long length (> 1500 mm) with mercury content exceeding 13 mg per lamp1.1.2026The following electrical and electronic measuring devices, except those installed in large-scale equipment or those used for high precision measurement, where no suitable mercury- free alternative is available:(a) Melt pressure transducers, melt pressure transmitters and melt pressure sensors1.1.2026Compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) for general lighting purposes that are > 30 watts1.1.2027Compact fluorescent lamps with a non-integrated ballast (CFL.ni) for general lighting purposes that are ≤ 30 watts with a mercury content not exceeding 5 mg per lamp burner1.1.2027Linear fluorescent lamps (LFLs) for general lighting purposes:(a) Halophosphate phosphor ≤ 40 watts with a mercury content not exceeding 10 mg per lamp(b) Halophosphate phosphor > 40 watts1.1.2027Non-linear fluorescent lamps (NFLs) (e.g., U-bend and circular) for general lighting purposes:(b) Halophosphate phosphor, all wattages1.1.2027Linear fluorescent lamps (LFLs) for general lighting purposes:(a) Triband phosphor < 60 watts with a mercury content not exceeding 5 mg per lamp (b) Triband phosphor ≥ 60 watts with a mercury content not exceeding 5mg per lamp(c) Triband phosphor ≥ 60 watts with a mercury content exceeding 5mg per lamp1.1.2028Non-linear fluorescent lamps (NFLs) (e.g., U-bend and circular) for general lighting purposes:(a) Triband phosphor, all wattages1.1.2028[1] “silver oxide batteries (limited to those with a mercury content of less than one percent by weight that are button batteries)” are already Specified Mercury-using Products on the Enforcement Order (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4280) 

Regulation Type: Regular notification