Regulatory Updates

Distribution date: 06 December 2019 | Final date for Comment: 04 February 2020

Regulations to provide for the control and improvement of the dairy industry, its products and for incidental and connected matters.

Products Covered: HS Code(s): 04, 8434, 1517, 1702, 1901, 2106, 2105, 3502; ICS Code(s): 67.100

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 06 December 2019 | Final date for Comment: 04 February 2020

This regulation describes the importation, distribution and use of prohibited substances including anabolic hormones, thyrostatic substances and growth promoters in stock production.

Products Covered: Anabolic hormones, thyrostatic substances and growth promoters

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 06 December 2019

Proposed maximum residue limits (MRLs) for the following agricultural chemical: Pesticide: Fenpicoxamid.

Products Covered: - Edible fruit (HS Code: 08.03)- Cereals (HS Codes: 10.01 and 10.02)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 06 December 2019 | Final date for Comment: 04 February 2020

Proposed maximum residue limits (MRLs) for the following agricultural chemical: Pesticide: Prothiofos.

Products Covered: - Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers (HS Codes: 07.01, 07.03, 07.04, 07.06, 07.09, 07.10, 07.13 and 07.14) - Edible fruit and nuts, peel of citrus fruit (HS Codes: 08.02, 08.03, 08.05, 08.06, 08.08, 08.10, 08.11 and 08.14) - Tea and spices (HS Codes: 09.02, 09.04, 09.05, 09.06, 09.07, 09.08, 09.09 and 09.10)- Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit (HS Codes: 12.01, 12.02, 12.07 and 12.12)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 06 December 2019 | Final date for Comment: 04 February 2020

Proposed maximum residue limits (MRLs) for the following agricultural chemical: Pesticide: Flutianil.

Products Covered: - Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers (HS Codes: 07.02, 07.07, 07.08, 07.09 and 07.10)- Edible fruit (HS Codes: 08.06, 08.07, 08.08, 08.09, 08.10 and 08.11)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 06 December 2019

Proposed maximum residue limits (MRLs) for the following agricultural chemical: Veterinary drug: Cephapirin.

Products Covered: - Meat and edible meat offal (HS Codes: 02.01, 02.02 and 02.06) - Dairy produce (HS Code: 04.01) - Animal originated products (HS Code: 05.04)- Animal fats and oils (HS Code: 15.02)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 06 December 2019

Proposed maximum residue limits (MRLs) for the following agricultural chemical: Pesticide: Chloropicrin.

Products Covered: - Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers (HS Codes: 07.01, 07.02, 07.03, 07.04, 07.05, 07.06, 07.07, 07.08, 07.09, 07.10, 07.13 and 07.14) - Edible fruit (HS Codes: 08.07, 08.08, 08.10 and 08.11) - Mate and spices (HS Codes: 09.03 and 09.10) - Cereals (HS Codes: 10.01, 10.02, 10.03, 10.04, 10.05, 10.06, 10.07 and 10.08)- Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit (HS Codes: 12.01, 12.02 and 12.12)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 06 December 2019

Proposed maximum residue limits (MRLs) for the following agricultural chemical: Pesticide: Dichlobentiazox.

Products Covered: Cereals (HS Code: 10.06)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 05 December 2019 | Final date for Comment: 17 December 2019

The notified draft Regulations provide for major changes in the sanitary register, as they may have repercussions on the quality, safety and effectiveness of pharmaceutical products, and establish the conditions and documents required for such changes.

Products Covered: Pharmaceutical products; Fish, fresh or chilled, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 03.04 (HS 0302); Glands and other organs for organo-therapeutic uses, dried, whether or not powdered; extracts of glands or other organs or of their secretions for organo-therapeutic uses; heparin and its salts; other human or animal substances prepared for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, not elsewhere specified or included (HS 3001); Medicaments (excluding goods of heading 30.02, 30.05 or 30.06) consisting of two or more constituents which have been mixed together for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, not put up in measured doses or in forms or packings for retail sale (HS 3003); Medicaments (excluding goods of heading 30.02, 30.05 or 30.06) consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, put up in measured doses (including those in the form of transdermal administration systems) or in forms or packings for retail sale (HS 3004); Wadding, gauze, bandages and similar articles (for example, dressings, adhesive plasters, poultices), impregnated or coated with pharmaceutical substances or put up in forms or packings for retail sale for medical, surgical, dental or veterinary purposes (HS 3005); Pharmaceutical goods specified in Note 4 to this Chapter (HS 3006)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 03 December 2019 | Final date for Comment: 23 December 2019

The notified Directive has been issued in response to the need for measures that reduce, prevent or eliminate risks to public health arising from the presence of chemical residues and contaminants in meat products imported into the Plurinational State of Bolivia.

Products Covered: HS codes: 0201, 0202, 0203 and 0206

Regulation Type: Regular notification