Regulatory Updates

Distribution date: 06 November 2019 | Final date for Comment: 28 December 2019

This Draft East African Standard specifies requirements, sampling and test methods for silk (sheen) emulsion paint for interior use.

Products Covered: (HS code(s): 3208); Paints and varnishes (ICS code(s): 87.040)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 06 November 2019 | Final date for Comment: 06 December 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 seatpost 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: 95030010: Tricycles, scooters, pedal cars and similar toys; dolls' carriages. 95030022: Dolls, whether or not dressed. 95030030: Reduced-size ("scale") model assembly kits, whether or not working models. 95030040: Puzzles. 905030091: Electric trains, including tracks, signals and other accessories therefor. 95030092: Constructional. 95030093: Toys representing animals or non-human creatures. 95030094: Musical instruments. 95030095: Put up in sets or assortments. 95030096: Other, with an electric motor. 95030099: Other. Other toys; reduced-size ("scale") models and similar recreational models, working or not; puzzles of all kinds (HS 9503)

Regulation Type: Revision to Regular Notification

Distribution date: 06 November 2019 | Final date for Comment: 05 January 2020

This Draft Uganda Standard specifies the requirements, sampling and test methods for food grade saccharin intended for use in food products. Note: This draft standard was also notified to the SPS Committee.

Products Covered: Saccharin and its salts (HS code(s): 292511); Food additives (ICS code(s): 67.220.20)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 06 November 2019 | Final date for Comment: 05 January 2020

This Draft Uganda Standard specifies the requirements, sampling and test methods for sucralose intended for use in food products. Note: This draft standard was also notified to the SPS Committee.

Products Covered: Food grade sucralose

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 05 November 2019

This resolution establishes the technical requirements for the influenza vaccines commercialization from February 2020. The influenza trivalent vaccine must contain, necessarily, three types of combined virus strains, and be according to specifications described below: - a virus similar to influenza A/Brisbane/02/2018 (H1N1)pdm09 virus; - a virus similar to virus influenza A/South Australia/34/2019 (H3N2) virus; and - a virus similar to virus influenza B/Washington/02/2019 (strain B/Victoria) virus.

Products Covered: HS Code(s): 30022000 (Vaccines)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 04 November 2019

Products Covered: Compound microbial fertilizer

Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification

Distribution date: 04 November 2019

Products Covered: Blended fertilizers

Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification

Distribution date: 04 November 2019

Products Covered: Saccharin (food grade)

Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification

Distribution date: 04 November 2019

Products Covered: Organic-inorganic compound fertilizer

Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification

Distribution date: 04 November 2019 | Final date for Comment: 04 December 2019

The notified Ecuadorian Technical Regulation establishes the requirements to be met by pumps for industrial processes, prior to the marketing of domestic and imported products, with a view to protecting human safety and preventing deceptive practices. It applies to the following products: Centrifugal pumps for petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas industries. It does not apply to: 1. Pumps for fire-fighting systems; 2. Positive-displacement pumps; 3. Pumps with an internal combustion engine.

Products Covered: Centrifugal pumps, power-driven (excl. those of subheading 8413.11 and 8413.19, fuel, lubricating or cooling medium pumps for internal combustion piston engine and concrete pumps) (HS code(s): 841370); Pumps (ICS code(s): 23.080)

Regulation Type: Revision to Regular Notification