Distribution date: 17 February 2020 | Final date for Comment: 17 April 2020

Barium Carbonate is one of the important raw material widely used in the manufacture of different types of ceramic dielectric capacitors for high frequency application and for hard ferrites. The other important use is as an ingredient for the manufacture of ceramic glaze frits and fluxes, optical and ophthalmic glasses and special cut glasses. It is also used in other electro ceramic materials used a resistors, circuit breakers etc. The standard of Barium Carbonate for ceramic and glass industry prescribes minimum purity and impurity profile in maximum covering iron, sodium oxide and other metal sulphates etc. Barium Carbonate Technical is used for removing of sulfates in phosphoric acid production and chlorine alkali electrolysis. Barium Carbonate Technical is also used in the manufacture of various Barium compounds like Barium Chloride, Barium Nitrate, Barium Sulphide etc. The standards prescribe minimum content of Barium and Carbonate, besides impurity profile. The locally manufactured or imported Barium Carbonate shall conform to the Indian standard (IS 3205:1984, reaffirmed 2015 and IS 12928: 1990, reaffirmed 2017) and shall bear the standard mark under license from the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). Bureau of Indian Standards of the State Governments shall be the enforcing authority.

Products Covered: Barium Carbonate (HS Code 2836 6000)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 17 February 2020 | Final date for Comment: 17 April 2020

The draft lifts certain veterinary measures applied to imported goods subject to veterinary control into the territory of the Eurasian Economic Union

Products Covered: Goods (products) subject to veterinary control (surveillance) and containing components of animal origin

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 17 February 2020 | Final date for Comment: 17 April 2020

The draft national technical regulation on wood paints and varnishes. Part 1. PU paints and varnishes (Polyurethane) specifies the technical and managerial requirements for wood paints and varnishes. Part 1. PU paints and varnishes (Polyurethane). This draft technical regulation does not apply to wood paints and varnishes which are used as testing samples, product samples, displaying samples, temporarily imported for exported and in transit. This draft technical regulation applies to: Domestic and foreign organizations, individuals manufacturing, processing, trading, exporting and importing food grade salt in the territory of Vietnam; State management agencies, concerned organizations and individuals. This draft technical regulation stipulates the responsibilities of organizations, individuals and implementing organizations of managing agencies.

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 (ICS code(s): 87.040)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 21 February 2020 | Final date for Comment: 21 April 2020

This Uganda Standard specifies the requirements for steel sheet in coils and cut lengths for highstrength low-alloy steel (HSLA) supplied as hot-rolled sheet and cold-rolled sheet. For the purposes of determining conformance with this specification and the various material specifications, values shall be rounded to the nearest unit in the right-hand place of figures used in expressing the limiting values. For the purposes of determining conformance with this product specification, measured values, calculated values, or observed values shall be rounded to the nearest unit in the right hand place of figures used in expressing the limiting values.

Products Covered: Steel roofing sheets

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 21 February 2020 | Final date for Comment: 20 April 2020

The Draft amendments to the Rules for registration and examination of safety, quality and effectiveness of medical devices apply to medical devices issued for circulation in the territory of the Eurasian economic union and provide for the following: - clarification of terms and definitions;- clarification of the mechanism for implementing the procedure for approval by States of the recognition of the expert opinion of the reference state;- determination of cases when changes are made to the registration dossier of medical devices in the notification procedure;- clarification of the procedure for canceling the validity (cancellation) of the registration certificate of a medical device.

Products Covered: Wadding, gauze, bandages (dressings, adhesive plasters, poultices), impregnated or coated with pharmaceutical substances or in forms or packings for retail sale, for medical, surgical or veterinary use (HS 3005); Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight testing instruments (HS 9018); X-ray, alpha, beta, gamma radiation apparatus; x-ray tubes, x-ray generators, high tension generators, control panels and desks, screens, examination or treatm ent tables, chairs and the like (HS 9022); Furniture; medical, surgical, dental or veterinary (e.g. operating tables, hospital beds, dentists' chairs) barbers' chairs; parts (HS 9402).

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 24 February 2020 | Final date for Comment: 10 May 2025

On the basis of the official notification of the World Organization for Animal Health, the Committee for Veterinary Control and Surveillance of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan reports outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza  registered in the Lublin Voivodeship of the Republic of Poland. In this regard, since 5 January 2020 temporary restrictions have been introduced on the importation into Kazakhstan from the Lublin Voivodeship of the Republic of Poland of live birds, hatching eggs, down and feathers, poultry meat and all poultry products, that not heat treated (not less than 70˚С), feed and feed additives for birds (except feed additives of chemical and microbiological synthesis), hunting trophies that have not undergone taxidermic treatment (feathered game), as well as used equipment for keeping, slaughter and cutting of birds

Products Covered: Live birds, hatching eggs, down and feathers, poultry meat and all poultry products, that not heat treated (not less than 70˚С), feed and feed additives for birds (except feed additives of chemical and microbiological synthesis), hunting trophies that have not undergone taxidermic treatment (feathered game), as well as used equipment for keeping, slaughter and cutting of birds

Regulation Type: Emergency notifications (SPS)

Distribution date: 26 February 2020 | Final date for Comment: 26 April 2020

The notified draft law has been prepared with a view to establishing a national legal framework based on international good practices that takes into account farmers' needs and improves agricultural production so as to ensure Moroccan agricultural goods meet their competitiveness objectives. The draft law regulates the marketing, importation, possession and distribution of fertilizing substances, fertilizer additives and growing media. It also governs experimentation with regard to these products.

Products Covered: Fertilizing substances and growing media

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 27 February 2020 | Final date for Comment: 27 April 2020

The National Standard has been developed by all Australian governments to efficiently and effectively manage the impacts of industrial chemicals on the environment, while providing consistent requirements for businesses. The National Standard will be established by a legislative framework consisting of primary legislation and subordinate legislative instruments the Industrial Chemicals Environmental Management (Register) Bill will, once enacted, establish a new decision-making framework the Industrial Chemicals Environmental Management Register Principles is a legislative instrument that will establish decision making principles that inform decisions made under the Bill the Industrial Chemicals Environmental Management Register is a legislative instrument that will record decisions on environmental management of chemicals, including assigning risk management measures for particular industrial uses, which will be implemented by the Commonwealth and each state and territory.

Products Covered: All industrial chemicals used in Australia. This does not include chemicals used in therapeutic goods and agricultural and veterinary chemicals.

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 27 February 2020 | Final date for Comment: 27 April 2020

STPP is used as a preservative for poultry, meat, and seafood. It is also added, along with other sodium polyphosphates, to processed cheeses as an emulsifier. It is also used in the manufacture of detergent, water treatment chemical, purification china clay, conditioning of oil drilling mud, in paper making and textile processing etc. The locally manufactured or imported Sodium Tripolyphosphate shall conform to the Indian standard (IS 6100: 1984) and shall bear the standard mark under license from the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). The use of standard mark is governed by the provisions of Bureau of Indian Standards Act 1986 and the Rules and Regulations made there under. Bureau of Indian Standards shall be the certifying and enforcing authority.

Products Covered: Sodium Tripolyphosphate Anhydrous (HS Code 2835 3100)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 28 February 2020 | Final date for Comment: 10 May 2025

On the basis of the World Organization for Animal Health's official notification, the Committee for Veterinary Control and Surveillance of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan reports outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza  registered in Lower Silesian and Silesian Voivodeships of the Republic of Poland. In this regard, since 5 February 2020 temporary restrictions have been introduced on the importation into and transit to the territory of Kazakhstan of live birds and hatching eggs, down and feathers, poultry meat and all poultry products, that not heat treated, feed and feed additives for birds (except feed additives of chemical and microbiological synthesis), hunting trophies that have not undergone taxidermic treatment (feathered game), as well as used equipment for keeping, slaughter and cutting of birds.

Products Covered: Live birds and hatching eggs, down and feathers, poultry meat and all poultry products, that not heat treated, feed and feed additives for birds (except feed additives of chemical and microbiological synthesis), hunting trophies that have not undergone taxidermic treatment (feathered game), as well as used equipment for keeping, slaughter and cutting of birds.

Regulation Type: Emergency notifications (SPS)