Distribution date: 10 July 2018 | Final date for Comment: 28 April 2025

Products Covered: Toys ; Electrical and electronics ; Automotive products and inputs ; Chemical products ; Mechanical materials and gas appliances ; Textile, leather, plastic and rubber ; Furniture( wood and metal articles) ; Paper and stationery ; Protective safety equipment ; Food and food products ; Used products including used motor vehicles

Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification

Distribution date: 10 July 2018 | Final date for Comment: 28 April 2025

Products Covered: Toys; Electrical and electronics including solar panels and systems; Automotive products and inputs; Chemical commodities; Mechanical materials and gas appliances including construction materials and items; Textile, leather, plastic and rubber; Furniture including wood and metal articles; Paper and stationery; Protective safety Equipment; Food and food products; Used commodities including used motor vehicles

Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification

Distribution date: 10 July 2018 | Final date for Comment: 16 August 2018

Addressing childhood lead exposure is a priority for EPA. As part of EPA's efforts to reduce childhood lead exposure, EPA evaluated the current dust-lead hazard standards (DLHS) and the definition of lead-based paint (LBP). Based on this evaluation, EPA is proposing to lower the DLHS from 40 [mu]g/ft\2\ and 250 [mu]g/ft\2\ to 10 [mu]g/ft\2\ and 100 [mu]g/ft\2\ on floors and window sills, respectively. EPA is proposing no changes to the current definition of LBP due to insufficient information to support such a change.  

Products Covered: Lead-based paint

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 13 July 2018 | Final date for Comment: 11 September 2018

This Draft Uganda Standard covers the determination of the resistance of organic coatings to abrasion produced by the Taber Abraser on coatings applied to a plane, rigid surface, such as a metal panel. The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as the standard, with the exception of mils when determining coating thickness. This standard is similar in content (but not technically equivalent) to ISO 7784–2.

Products Covered: ORGANIC CHEMICALS (HS code(s): 29); Organic coatings (ICS code(s): 25.220.60)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 13 July 2018 | Final date for Comment: 11 September 2018

This Draft Uganda Standard describes a procedure for the determination of the weight percent volatile content of solventborne and waterborne coatings. Test specimens are heated at 110 ± 5°C for 60 min. Sixty minutes at 110 ± 5°C is a general purpose test method based on the precision obtained with both solventborne and waterborne coatings. This test method is viable for coatings wherein one or more parts may, at ambient conditions, contain liquid coreactants that are volatile until a chemical reaction has occurred with another component of the multi-package system. Test Method D5095 for Determination of the Nonvolatile Content in Silanes, Siloxanes and Silane-Siloxane Blends Used in Masonry Water Repellent Treatments is the standard method for nonvolatile content of these types of materials. Test Methods D5403 for Volatile Content of Radiation Curable Materials is the standard method for determining nonvolatile content of radiation curable coatings, inks and adhesives. Test Method D6419 for Volatile Content of Sheet-Fed and Coldset Web Offset Printing Inks is the method of choice for these types of printing inks. This test method may not be applicable to all types of coatings. Other procedures may be substituted with mutual agreement between the producer and the user.

Products Covered: Paints and varnishes, incl. enamels and lacquers, based on synthetic polymers or chemically modified natural polymers, dispersed or dissolved in a non-aqueous medium; solutions of products of subheading 3901 to 3913 in volatile organic solvents, containing > 50% solvent by weight (excl. solutions of collodion) (HS code(s): 3208); Paints and varnishes, incl. enamels and lacquers, based on synthetic polymers or chemically modified natural polymers, dispersed or dissolved in an aqueous medium (HS code(s): 3209); Paints and varnishes (ICS code(s): 87.040)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 13 July 2018 | Final date for Comment: 11 September 2018

This Draft Uganda Standard specifies requirements, methods of test and sampling for conventional solvent-borne and water-borne paints suitable for permanently marking traffic-bearing bituminous or concrete road and runway surfaces. The paint shall be reflectoried unless otherwise specified. It makes provision for white, yellow and red.  

Products Covered: Road marking paints, Runway marking paints

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 13 July 2018 | Final date for Comment: 11 September 2018

This Draft Uganda Standard covers the determination, without reference to a material paint standard, of the hiding power of air dry coatings with Y tristimulus values greater than 15%. With appropriate modification, it can also be used to test baking finishes. The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as standard. No other units of measurement are included in this standard.

Products Covered: Paints and varnishes, incl. enamels and lacquers, based on synthetic polymers or chemically modified natural polymers, dispersed or dissolved in a non-aqueous medium; solutions of products of subheading 3901 to 3913 in volatile organic solvents, containing > 50% solvent by weight (excl. solutions of collodion) (HS code(s): 3208); Paints and varnishes, incl. enamels and lacquers, based on synthetic polymers or chemically modified natural polymers, dispersed or dissolved in an aqueous medium (HS code(s): 3209); Paints and varnishes (ICS code(s): 87.040)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 13 July 2018 | Final date for Comment: 11 September 2018

This Draft Uganda Standard provides numbers that correlate with visual ratings of yellowness or whiteness of white and near-white or colorless object-color specimens, viewed in daylight by an observer with normal color vision. White textiles, paints, and plastics are a few of the materials that can be described by the indices of yellowness or whiteness calculated by this practice.  For a complete analysis of object colors, by a specified observer and under a specified illuminant, use of three parameters is required. For near-white specimens, however, it is often useful to calculate single-number scales of yellowness or whiteness. This practice provides recommended equations for such scales and discusses their derivations and uses, and limits to their applicability. The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as standard. No other units of measurement are included in this standard.

Products Covered: Textiles, paints, plastics.

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 13 July 2018 | Final date for Comment: 11 September 2018

This Draft Uganda Standard covers the measurement of Krebs Unit (KU) viscosity to evaluate the consistency of paints and related coatings using the Stormer-type viscometer. The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as the standard. The values given in parentheses are for information only.

Products Covered: Paints and varnishes, incl. enamels and lacquers, based on synthetic polymers or chemically modified natural polymers, dispersed or dissolved in a non-aqueous medium; solutions of products of subheading 3901 to 3913 in volatile organic solvents, containing > 50% solvent by weight (excl. solutions of collodion) (HS code(s): 3208); Paints and varnishes, incl. enamels and lacquers, based on synthetic polymers or chemically modified natural polymers, dispersed or dissolved in an aqueous medium (HS code(s): 3209); Paints and varnishes (ICS code(s): 87.040)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 13 July 2018 | Final date for Comment: 11 September 2018

This Draft Uganda Standard covers the measurement of the retroreflective properties of horizontal pavement marking materials containing retroreflecting beads, such as traffic stripes and surface symbols, using a portable retroreflectometer that can be placed on the road delineation to measure the retroreflection at a prescribed geometry. The restriction to bead based materials is for the purpose of ensuring a sufficiently gradual optical response function (from points of the source aperture to points of the receiver aperture) to allow generous sized instrument source and receiver apertures. The entrance and observation angles of the retroreflectometer affect the readings. As specified by the European Committee for Standardization (CEN), the entrance and observation angles shall be 88.76° and 1.05°, respectively. This test method is intended to be used for field measurement of pavement markings but may be used to measure the performance of materials on sample panels before placing the marking material in the field.

Products Covered: Pavement marking materials

Regulation Type: Regular notification