Distribution date: 12 October 2005 | Final date for Comment: 22 April 2025

Products Covered: Firelighters (ICS:  97.040.20; 97.200.30; HS:  3815)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 12 October 2005 | Final date for Comment: 22 April 2025

Products Covered: Firelighters (ICS:  97.040.20; 97.200.30; HS:  3815)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 13 October 2005 | Final date for Comment: 22 April 2025

This standard specifies the requirements for the performance, sampling, packaging and labelling of safety matches. It also prescribes the requirements for the purchase of match splints from suppliers. This standard applies to matches packed in boxes for domestic purposes and book matches. The requirements do not apply to specialty matches for advertising purposes.

Products Covered: Safety Matches, (HS:  3605;  ICS:  97.180)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 13 October 2005 | Final date for Comment: 22 April 2025

This standard specifies the requirements for the performance, sampling, packaging and labelling of safety matches. It also prescribes the requirements for the purchase of match splints from suppliers. This standard applies to matches packed in boxes for domestic purposes and book matches. The requirements do not apply to specialty matches for advertising purposes.

Products Covered: Safety Matches, (HS:  3605;  ICS:  97.180)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 27 October 2005 | Final date for Comment: 22 April 2025

This proposal removes the countries indicated in § 4 from Annex XI, Part A, point 15(b) second subparagraph, and from Annex XI, Part D, point 3 of Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) notified in G/SPS/N/EEC/72 (16/03/1999). Background Third countries exporting to the EC must comply with the TSE related import conditions as defined in Annex XI to Regulation 999/2001 with the exception of the countries listed in point 15 of this annex XI. Regulation 999/2001 provides also for the examination of statistical surveys to confirm or overturn the Geographical BSE Risk (GBR) of trade partners, this assessment is made by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). A consequence of delisting a country from point 15 of Annex XI is that, when exporting to the EC, it must comply with the TSE related import conditions.

Products Covered: Meat of bovine animals, fresh or chilled or frozen (CN 0201 and 0202), Meat of sheep or goats, fresh, chilled or frozen (CN 0204), Edible offal of bovine animals fresh, chilled or frozen (CN 0206), Meat of bovine animals and edible meat offal, salted, in brine, dried or smoked; edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal (CN 0210 20), Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals (other than fish), whole and pieces thereof, fresh, chilled frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked (CN 0504), Raw material for the manufacture of animal feedingstuffs (CN 0210.90). Bones and horn-cores, unworked, defatted, simply prepared (but not cut to shape), treated with acid or degelatinised; powder and waste of these products (CN 0506), Fats of bovine animals, sheep or goats, other than those of heading 1503 (CN 1502), Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal or blood; food preparations based on these products (CN 1601), Other prepared or preserved meat, meat offal or blood (CN 1602), Flours, meals and pellets, of meat or meat offal, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, unfit for human consumption; greaves (CN 2301), Gelatine (including gelatine in rectangular (including square) sheets, whether or not surface-worked or coloured) and gelatine derivatives; isinglass; other glues of animal origin, excluding casein glues of heading 3501 (CN 3503).

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 27 October 2005 | Final date for Comment: 22 April 2025

This proposal removes the countries indicated in § 4 from Annex XI, Part A, point 15(b) second subparagraph, and from Annex XI, Part D, point 3 of Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) notified in G/SPS/N/EEC/72 (16/03/1999). Background Third countries exporting to the EC must comply with the TSE related import conditions as defined in Annex XI to Regulation 999/2001 with the exception of the countries listed in point 15 of this annex XI. Regulation 999/2001 provides also for the examination of statistical surveys to confirm or overturn the Geographical BSE Risk (GBR) of trade partners, this assessment is made by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). A consequence of delisting a country from point 15 of Annex XI is that, when exporting to the EC, it must comply with the TSE related import conditions.

Products Covered: Meat of bovine animals, fresh or chilled or frozen (CN 0201 and 0202), Meat of sheep or goats, fresh, chilled or frozen (CN 0204), Edible offal of bovine animals fresh, chilled or frozen (CN 0206), Meat of bovine animals and edible meat offal, salted, in brine, dried or smoked; edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal (CN 0210 20), Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals (other than fish), whole and pieces thereof, fresh, chilled frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked (CN 0504), Raw material for the manufacture of animal feedingstuffs (CN 0210.90). Bones and horn-cores, unworked, defatted, simply prepared (but not cut to shape), treated with acid or degelatinised; powder and waste of these products (CN 0506), Fats of bovine animals, sheep or goats, other than those of heading 1503 (CN 1502), Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal or blood; food preparations based on these products (CN 1601), Other prepared or preserved meat, meat offal or blood (CN 1602), Flours, meals and pellets, of meat or meat offal, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, unfit for human consumption; greaves (CN 2301), Gelatine (including gelatine in rectangular (including square) sheets, whether or not surface-worked or coloured) and gelatine derivatives; isinglass; other glues of animal origin, excluding casein glues of heading 3501 (CN 3503).

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 31 October 2005 | Final date for Comment: 22 April 2025

Products Covered: Animal or vegetable fertilizers, whether or not mixed together or chemically treated; fertilizers produced by the mixing or chemical treatment of animal or vegetable products (HS:  3101)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 31 October 2005 | Final date for Comment: 22 April 2025

Products Covered: Animal or vegetable fertilizers, whether or not mixed together or chemically treated; fertilizers produced by the mixing or chemical treatment of animal or vegetable products (HS:  3101)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 01 November 2005 | Final date for Comment: 22 April 2025

Products Covered: Marine paint (HS:  3208, 3209;  ICS:  87.040)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 01 November 2005 | Final date for Comment: 22 April 2025

Products Covered: Marine paint (HS:  3208, 3209;  ICS:  87.040)

Regulation Type: Regular notification