Guidelines for Cosmetic Safety Assessment (Draft for Comments)

Distribution date: 08 September 2020 | Final date for Comment: 07 November 2020
The Guidelines are intended to guide and standardize the safety assessment of cosmetics and cosmetic ingredients to ensure the safety of cosmetics.
Products Covered: Cosmetics ICS: 71.100.70; HS: 33
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Guidelines for Cosmetic Safety Assessment (Draft for Comments)

Distribution date: 08 September 2020 | Final date for Comment: 07 November 2020
The Guidelines are intended to guide and standardize the safety assessment of cosmetics and cosmetic ingredients to ensure the safety of cosmetics.
Products Covered: Cosmetics ICS: 71.100.70; HS: 33
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Classification Rules and Catalogue of Cosmetics (Draft for Comments)

Distribution date: 08 September 2020 | Final date for Comment: 07 November 2020
This document is drafted to carry out detailed classification of cosmetics which is applied to the statistics and supervision of cosmetics products, as well as the clarification of the catalogue of products.
Products Covered: Cosmetics ICS: 71.100.70; HS: 33
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Classification Rules and Catalogue of Cosmetics (Draft for Comments)

Distribution date: 08 September 2020 | Final date for Comment: 07 November 2020
This document is drafted to carry out detailed classification of cosmetics which is applied to the statistics and supervision of cosmetics products, as well as the clarification of the catalogue of products.
Products Covered: Cosmetics ICS: 71.100.70; HS: 33
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Decreto Supremo Ministerio de Salud N° 54/2019 y N° 65/2019: Proceso de Registro Sanitario de Productos Farmacéuticos (Ministry of Health Supreme Decrees No. 54/2019 and No. 65/2019: Sanitary registration process for pharmaceutical products) (3 pages, in Spanish; 2 pages, in Spanish)

Distribution date: 08 September 2020 | Final date for Comment: 08 October 2020
The purposes of the notified Ministry of Health Supreme Decrees No. 54/2019 and No. 65/2019 are to simplify the processes associated with administrative procedures for the sanitary registration of pharmaceutical products for human use in Chile and deal with the demonstration of therapeutic equivalence. Both Supreme Decrees amend Ministry of Health Supreme Decree No. 3 of 2010 and, for reasons of urgency, were published in the Official Journal of Chile on 21 August 2020.
Products Covered: Pharmaceutical products
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Decreto Supremo Ministerio de Salud N° 54/2019 y N° 65/2019: Proceso de Registro Sanitario de Productos Farmacéuticos (Ministry of Health Supreme Decrees No. 54/2019 and No. 65/2019: Sanitary registration process for pharmaceutical products) (3 pages, in Spanish; 2 pages, in Spanish)

Distribution date: 08 September 2020 | Final date for Comment: 08 October 2020
The purposes of the notified Ministry of Health Supreme Decrees No. 54/2019 and No. 65/2019 are to simplify the processes associated with administrative procedures for the sanitary registration of pharmaceutical products for human use in Chile and deal with the demonstration of therapeutic equivalence. Both Supreme Decrees amend Ministry of Health Supreme Decree No. 3 of 2010 and, for reasons of urgency, were published in the Official Journal of Chile on 21 August 2020.
Products Covered: Pharmaceutical products
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Draft Implementing Decree on the implementation of certain measures related to the prohibition of chemical weapons

Distribution date: 09 September 2020 | Final date for Comment: 30 November 2020
The draft Implementing Decree replaces the existing Implementing Decree No 208/2008 and lays down the details, in particular, on the following areas governed by Act No 19/1997: - contents of the report on activities for protection purposes, - facilities that may handle Schedule 1 substances, - reports on the handling of Schedule 1, Schedule 2 and Schedule 3 substances, - conditions for transferring Schedule 2 and Schedule 3 substances, - record-keeping of scheduled substances, - reports on the production of certain organic chemicals. The draft legislation does not contain any references to national technical standards, technical documents or corporate standards, or to European standards, harmonised standards, or international standards or recommendations. The draft legislation does not contain any references to European legislation.
Products Covered: Handling of toxic chemicals and their precursors, including substances on the schedules of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Draft Implementing Decree on the implementation of certain measures related to the prohibition of chemical weapons

Distribution date: 09 September 2020 | Final date for Comment: 30 November 2020
The draft Implementing Decree replaces the existing Implementing Decree No 208/2008 and lays down the details, in particular, on the following areas governed by Act No 19/1997: - contents of the report on activities for protection purposes, - facilities that may handle Schedule 1 substances, - reports on the handling of Schedule 1, Schedule 2 and Schedule 3 substances, - conditions for transferring Schedule 2 and Schedule 3 substances, - record-keeping of scheduled substances, - reports on the production of certain organic chemicals. The draft legislation does not contain any references to national technical standards, technical documents or corporate standards, or to European standards, harmonised standards, or international standards or recommendations. The draft legislation does not contain any references to European legislation.
Products Covered: Handling of toxic chemicals and their precursors, including substances on the schedules of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Letter of the Committee for Veterinary Control and Surveillance of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the introduction of temporary restrictions on the importation from Chelyabinsk Region (Russian Federation) and transit through the territory of Chelyabinsk Region (Russian Federation) to the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan live poultry, hatching eggs, down and feathers, poultry meat and all types of poultry products that have not undergone heat treatment, feed and feed additives for poultry (except for feed additives of chemical and microbiological synthesis), trophies of the chase that have not undergone taxidermy treatment (feather game), as well as used equipment for keeping, slaughtering and cutting of birds.

Distribution date: 09 September 2020 | Final date for Comment: 14 May 2025
On the basis of the published information on the official site of the Office of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance in the Chelyabinsk Region, the Committee for Veterinary Control and Surveillance of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan reports outbreak of avian influenza of the H5N8 subtype in the Chelyabinsk Region of the Russian Federation. In this regard, since 4 August 2020 temporary restrictions have been introduced on the importation from the Chelyabinsk region and transit through the Chelyabinsk region to the territory of Kazakhstan of live poultry, hatching eggs, down and feathers, poultry meat and all types of poultry products that have not undergone heat treatment, feed and feed additives for birds (with the exception of feed additives of chemical and microbiological synthesis), trophies of the chase that have not undergone taxidermy treatment (feather game), as well as used equipment for keeping, slaughtering and cutting birds.
Products Covered: Live poultry, hatching eggs, down and feathers, poultry meat and all poultry products, feed and feed additives for birds, trophies of the chase, used equipment for the maintenance, slaughter and cutting of birds.
Regulation Type: Emergency notifications (SPS)
Letter of the Committee for Veterinary Control and Surveillance of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the introduction of temporary restrictions on the importation from Chelyabinsk Region (Russian Federation) and transit through the territory of Chelyabinsk Region (Russian Federation) to the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan live poultry, hatching eggs, down and feathers, poultry meat and all types of poultry products that have not undergone heat treatment, feed and feed additives for poultry (except for feed additives of chemical and microbiological synthesis), trophies of the chase that have not undergone taxidermy treatment (feather game), as well as used equipment for keeping, slaughtering and cutting of birds.

Distribution date: 09 September 2020 | Final date for Comment: 14 May 2025
On the basis of the published information on the official site of the Office of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance in the Chelyabinsk Region, the Committee for Veterinary Control and Surveillance of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan reports outbreak of avian influenza of the H5N8 subtype in the Chelyabinsk Region of the Russian Federation. In this regard, since 4 August 2020 temporary restrictions have been introduced on the importation from the Chelyabinsk region and transit through the Chelyabinsk region to the territory of Kazakhstan of live poultry, hatching eggs, down and feathers, poultry meat and all types of poultry products that have not undergone heat treatment, feed and feed additives for birds (with the exception of feed additives of chemical and microbiological synthesis), trophies of the chase that have not undergone taxidermy treatment (feather game), as well as used equipment for keeping, slaughtering and cutting birds.
Products Covered: Live poultry, hatching eggs, down and feathers, poultry meat and all poultry products, feed and feed additives for birds, trophies of the chase, used equipment for the maintenance, slaughter and cutting of birds.
Regulation Type: Emergency notifications (SPS)
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