Distribution date: 03 May 2019 | Final date for Comment: 02 July 2019

The notified Ecuadorian Technical Regulation establishes the requirements to be met by toys, prior to the marketing of domestic and imported products, with the aim of protecting human health and safety and preventing deceptive practices. It applies to the following products: toys intended for use by children under 14 years of age. It does not apply to: · Home and public playground equipment · Automatic playing machines, whether coin-operated or not, intended for public use · Toy vehicles equipped with combustion engines · Toy steam engines · Slings and catapults · Decorative objects for festivities and celebrations · Products for collectors, provided that the product or its packaging bears a visible and legible indication that it is intended for collectors of 14 years of age and above · Sports equipment including roller skates, inline skates, and skateboards intended for children with a body mass of more than 20 kg · Bicycles with a maximum saddle height of more than 435 mm, measured as the vertical distance from the ground to the top of the seat surface, with the seat in a horizontal position and with the seat pillar set to the minimum insertion mark · Scooters and other means of transport designed for sport or which are intended to be used for travel on public roads or public pathways · Electrically driven vehicles which are intended to be used for travel on public roads, public pathways, or the pavement thereof · Aquatic equipment intended to be used in deep water, and swimming learning devices for children, such as swim seats and swimming aids · Puzzles with more than 500 pieces · Guns and pistols using compressed gas, with the exception of water guns and water pistols · Bows for archery over 120 cm long · Fireworks, including percussion caps which are not specifically designed for toys · Products and games using sharp-pointed missiles, such as sets of darts with metallic points · Functional educational products, such as electric ovens, irons or other functional products operated at a nominal voltage exceeding 24 V which are sold exclusively for teaching purposes under adult supervision · Products intended for use for educational purposes in schools and other pedagogical contexts under the surveillance of an adult instructor, such as science equipment · Electronic equipment, such as personal computers and game consoles, used to access interactive software and their associated peripherals, unless the electronic equipment or the associated peripherals are specifically designed for and targeted at children and have a play value on their own, such as specially designed personal computers, key boards, joy sticks or steering wheels · Interactive software, intended for leisure and entertainment, such as computer games, and their storage media, such as CDs · Babies' soothers · Child-appealing luminaires · Electrical transformers for toys · Fashion accessories for children which are not for use in play · Personal protective equipment, including flotation aids such as arm bands and swim seats, and swimming goggles, sunglasses and other eye protectors as well as bicycle and skateboard helmets · Sporting goods and equipment, camping goods, athletic equipment, musical instruments and furniture; however, toys which are their counterparts are included · Toys installed in public places (e.g. arcades and shopping centres) · Fashion jewellery for children · This Ecuadorian Technical Regulation does not cover electrical safety aspects of toys.

Products Covered: 950300: Tricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar wheeled toys; dolls' carriages; dolls; other toys; reduced-size ("scale") models and similar recreational models, working or not; puzzles of all kinds.

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 03 May 2019 | Final date for Comment: 02 July 2019

The notified Ecuadorian Technical Regulation establishes the requirements to be met by toys, prior to the marketing of domestic and imported products, with the aim of protecting human health and safety and preventing deceptive practices. It applies to the following products: toys intended for use by children under 14 years of age. It does not apply to: · Home and public playground equipment · Automatic playing machines, whether coin-operated or not, intended for public use · Toy vehicles equipped with combustion engines · Toy steam engines · Slings and catapults · Decorative objects for festivities and celebrations · Products for collectors, provided that the product or its packaging bears a visible and legible indication that it is intended for collectors of 14 years of age and above · Sports equipment including roller skates, inline skates, and skateboards intended for children with a body mass of more than 20 kg · Bicycles with a maximum saddle height of more than 435 mm, measured as the vertical distance from the ground to the top of the seat surface, with the seat in a horizontal position and with the seat pillar set to the minimum insertion mark · Scooters and other means of transport designed for sport or which are intended to be used for travel on public roads or public pathways · Electrically driven vehicles which are intended to be used for travel on public roads, public pathways, or the pavement thereof · Aquatic equipment intended to be used in deep water, and swimming learning devices for children, such as swim seats and swimming aids · Puzzles with more than 500 pieces · Guns and pistols using compressed gas, with the exception of water guns and water pistols · Bows for archery over 120 cm long · Fireworks, including percussion caps which are not specifically designed for toys · Products and games using sharp-pointed missiles, such as sets of darts with metallic points · Functional educational products, such as electric ovens, irons or other functional products operated at a nominal voltage exceeding 24 V which are sold exclusively for teaching purposes under adult supervision · Products intended for use for educational purposes in schools and other pedagogical contexts under the surveillance of an adult instructor, such as science equipment · Electronic equipment, such as personal computers and game consoles, used to access interactive software and their associated peripherals, unless the electronic equipment or the associated peripherals are specifically designed for and targeted at children and have a play value on their own, such as specially designed personal computers, key boards, joy sticks or steering wheels · Interactive software, intended for leisure and entertainment, such as computer games, and their storage media, such as CDs · Babies' soothers · Child-appealing luminaires · Electrical transformers for toys · Fashion accessories for children which are not for use in play · Personal protective equipment, including flotation aids such as arm bands and swim seats, and swimming goggles, sunglasses and other eye protectors as well as bicycle and skateboard helmets · Sporting goods and equipment, camping goods, athletic equipment, musical instruments and furniture; however, toys which are their counterparts are included · Toys installed in public places (e.g. arcades and shopping centres) · Fashion jewellery for children · This Ecuadorian Technical Regulation does not cover electrical safety aspects of toys.

Products Covered: 950300: Tricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar wheeled toys; dolls' carriages; dolls; other toys; reduced-size ("scale") models and similar recreational models, working or not; puzzles of all kinds.

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 03 May 2019 | Final date for Comment: 02 July 2019

The notified Ecuadorian Technical Regulation establishes the requirements to be met by household pressure cookers made of aluminium or stainless steel, prior to the marketing of domestic and imported products, with the aim of protecting human health and safety and preventing deceptive practices. It applies to the following products: Pressure cookers made of aluminium or stainless steel having an internal working pressure of 140 kPa or less.

Products Covered: 7615.10 Table, kitchen or other household articles and parts thereof; pot scourers and scouring or polishing pads, gloves and the like; Of stainless steel (HS 732393)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 03 May 2019 | Final date for Comment: 02 July 2019

The notified Ecuadorian Technical Regulation establishes the requirements to be met by household pressure cookers made of aluminium or stainless steel, prior to the marketing of domestic and imported products, with the aim of protecting human health and safety and preventing deceptive practices. It applies to the following products: Pressure cookers made of aluminium or stainless steel having an internal working pressure of 140 kPa or less.

Products Covered: 7615.10 Table, kitchen or other household articles and parts thereof; pot scourers and scouring or polishing pads, gloves and the like; Of stainless steel (HS 732393)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 03 May 2019 | Final date for Comment: 02 July 2019

The Thai Industrial Standards Institute (TISI) has proposed to withdraw the Thai Industrial Standard for White Portland Cement (TIS 133-2556(2013)) and replace it with White Portland Cement (TIS133-25XX(20XX)) as a mandatory standard. This standard specifies quality requirements for White Portland Cement including scope; definitions; materials; chemical and physical property requirements; packaging; marking and labeling and sampling and criteria for conformity.

Products Covered: White portland cement, whether or not artificially coloured (HS code(s): 252321); Mineral materials and products (ICS code(s): 91.100.15)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 03 May 2019 | Final date for Comment: 02 July 2019

The Thai Industrial Standards Institute (TISI) has proposed to withdraw the Thai Industrial Standard for White Portland Cement (TIS 133-2556(2013)) and replace it with White Portland Cement (TIS133-25XX(20XX)) as a mandatory standard. This standard specifies quality requirements for White Portland Cement including scope; definitions; materials; chemical and physical property requirements; packaging; marking and labeling and sampling and criteria for conformity.

Products Covered: White portland cement, whether or not artificially coloured (HS code(s): 252321); Mineral materials and products (ICS code(s): 91.100.15)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 01 May 2019

Products Covered: Asbestos

Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification

Distribution date: 01 May 2019

Products Covered: Asbestos

Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification

Distribution date: 01 May 2019 | Final date for Comment: 30 June 2019

This standard stipulates the requirements of disposable medical blood transfusion devices to ensure compatibility with blood and blood component containers and venous appliances. The second purpose of this standard is to provide guidelines for the performance and quality specifications of materials used in blood transfusion devices, and to give the labels of transfusion components. Main technical contents: general requirements, materials, physical requirements, chemical requirements, biological requirements and packaging, marking requirements.

Products Covered: Transfusion sets for single use

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 01 May 2019 | Final date for Comment: 30 June 2019

This standard stipulates the requirements of disposable medical blood transfusion devices to ensure compatibility with blood and blood component containers and venous appliances. The second purpose of this standard is to provide guidelines for the performance and quality specifications of materials used in blood transfusion devices, and to give the labels of transfusion components. Main technical contents: general requirements, materials, physical requirements, chemical requirements, biological requirements and packaging, marking requirements.

Products Covered: Transfusion sets for single use

Regulation Type: Regular notification