Regulatory Updates
Chemical Disinfectants and Antiseptics - Quantitative Suspension Test for the Evaluation of Bactericidal Activity of Chemical Disinfectants and Antiseptics Used in Food, Industrial, Domestic and Institutional Areas Test Method and Requirements (10 pages, in English)
Distribution date: 17 July 2015 | Final date for Comment: 21 August 2015
<span style="font-size:x-small;font-face:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-size:9pt;">Specifies a test method (phase 2/step 1) and the minimum requirements for bactericidal activity of chemical disinfectant and antiseptic products that form a homogeneous, physically stable preparation in hard water and that are used in food, industrial, domestic and institutional areas, excluding areas and situations where disinfection is medically indicated and excluding products used on living tissues except those for hand hygiene in the above considered areas.</span></span></span>
Products Covered: Disinfectants and antiseptics
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Chemical Disinfectants and Antiseptics - Quantitative Suspension Test for the Evaluation of Bactericidal Activity of Chemical Disinfectants and Antiseptics Used in Food, Industrial, Domestic and Institutional Areas Test Method and Requirements (10 pages, in English)
Distribution date: 17 July 2015 | Final date for Comment: 21 August 2015
<span style="font-size:x-small;font-face:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-size:9pt;">Specifies a test method (phase 2/step 1) and the minimum requirements for bactericidal activity of chemical disinfectant and antiseptic products that form a homogeneous, physically stable preparation in hard water and that are used in food, industrial, domestic and institutional areas, excluding areas and situations where disinfection is medically indicated and excluding products used on living tissues except those for hand hygiene in the above considered areas.</span></span></span>
Products Covered: Disinfectants and antiseptics
Regulation Type: Regular notification
DKS 2588: 2015 Chemicals Used for Treatment of Water Intended for Human Consumption - Chemicals for Emergency Use - Sodium Dichloroisocyanurate, Anhydrous (25 pages, in English)
Distribution date: 17 July 2015 | Final date for Comment: 11 August 2015
<span style="font-size:x-small;font-face:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif';font-size:9pt;">Describes the characteristics of sodium dichloroisocyanurate, dihydrate and specifies the requirements and the corresponding test methods for sodium dichloroisocyanurate, dihydrate used for emergency treatment of water intended for human consumption.</span></span>
Products Covered: Chemicals for water treatment
Regulation Type: Regular notification
DKS 2588: 2015 Chemicals Used for Treatment of Water Intended for Human Consumption - Chemicals for Emergency Use - Sodium Dichloroisocyanurate, Anhydrous (25 pages, in English)
Distribution date: 17 July 2015 | Final date for Comment: 11 August 2015
<span style="font-size:x-small;font-face:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif';font-size:9pt;">Describes the characteristics of sodium dichloroisocyanurate, dihydrate and specifies the requirements and the corresponding test methods for sodium dichloroisocyanurate, dihydrate used for emergency treatment of water intended for human consumption.</span></span>
Products Covered: Chemicals for water treatment
Regulation Type: Regular notification
DKS 2588: 2015 Chemicals Used for Treatment of Water Intended for Human Consumption - Chemicals for Emergency Use - Sodium Dichloroisocyanurate, Anhydrous (25 pages, in English)
Distribution date: 17 July 2015 | Final date for Comment: 11 August 2015
<span style="font-size:x-small;font-face:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif';font-size:9pt;">Describes the characteristics of sodium dichloroisocyanurate, dihydrate and specifies the requirements and the corresponding test methods for sodium dichloroisocyanurate, dihydrate used for emergency treatment of water intended for human consumption.</span></span>
Products Covered: Chemicals for water treatment
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Draft Commission Implementing Decision pursuant to Article 3(3) of Regulation (EU) No 528/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council on an anti-viral tissue impregnated with citric acid (3 pages, in English)
Distribution date: 15 July 2015 | Final date for Comment: 13 September 2015
<span style="font-size:x-small;font-face:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif';font-size:9pt;">This draft Commission Implementing Decision <span><span style="font-face:Verdana;">c</span></span>larifies that a </span><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-size:9pt;">tissue impregnated with citric acid is a biocidal product.</span></span></span>
Products Covered: Biocidal products
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Amendments to the Enforcement Ordinance of the Standards of Feed and Feed Additives (Amendments of agricultural chemical residue standards)
Distribution date: 13 July 2015 | Final date for Comment: 11 September 2015
Proposal for the establishment of the maximum residue limits (MRLs) for an agricultural chemical for feed (Imazapic). Commodity (for feed) Proposed MRL(mg/kg) Wheat 0.05 Maize 0.01 Soybean 0.5 Soybean meal 0.5 Hay 3 Note) The MRLs are established for the parent compound only. Hay includes hay and fodder (dry), straw, forage (green) and silage. The MRL is set as 90% dry matter base.
Products Covered: Wheat (HS Code: 10.01), Maize (HS Code: 10.05), Soybean (HS Code: 12.01), Soybean meal (HS Code: 23.04), Straw and forage of cereal grains and grasses, legume forage (alfalfa, clover, etc.) and other forage products (HS Codes: 12.13, 12.14) for feed
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Draft Commission Implementing Decision pursuant to Article 3(3) of Regulation (EU) No 528/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council on an anti-viral tissue impregnated with citric acid (3 pages, in English)
Distribution date: 15 July 2015 | Final date for Comment: 13 September 2015
<span style="font-size:x-small;font-face:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif';font-size:9pt;">This draft Commission Implementing Decision <span><span style="font-face:Verdana;">c</span></span>larifies that a </span><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-size:9pt;">tissue impregnated with citric acid is a biocidal product.</span></span></span>
Products Covered: Biocidal products
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Amendments to the Enforcement Ordinance of the Standards of Feed and Feed Additives (Amendments of agricultural chemical residue standards)
Distribution date: 13 July 2015 | Final date for Comment: 11 September 2015
Proposal for the establishment of the maximum residue limits (MRLs) for an agricultural chemical for feed (Imazapic). Commodity (for feed) Proposed MRL(mg/kg) Wheat 0.05 Maize 0.01 Soybean 0.5 Soybean meal 0.5 Hay 3 Note) The MRLs are established for the parent compound only. Hay includes hay and fodder (dry), straw, forage (green) and silage. The MRL is set as 90% dry matter base.
Products Covered: Wheat (HS Code: 10.01), Maize (HS Code: 10.05), Soybean (HS Code: 12.01), Soybean meal (HS Code: 23.04), Straw and forage of cereal grains and grasses, legume forage (alfalfa, clover, etc.) and other forage products (HS Codes: 12.13, 12.14) for feed
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Amendments to the Enforcement Ordinance of the Standards of Feed and Feed Additives (Amendments of agricultural chemical residue standards)
Distribution date: 13 July 2015 | Final date for Comment: 11 September 2015
Proposal for the establishment of the maximum residue limits (MRLs) for an agricultural chemical for feed (Imazapic). Commodity (for feed) Proposed MRL(mg/kg) Wheat 0.05 Maize 0.01 Soybean 0.5 Soybean meal 0.5 Hay 3 Note) The MRLs are established for the parent compound only. Hay includes hay and fodder (dry), straw, forage (green) and silage. The MRL is set as 90% dry matter base.
Products Covered: Wheat (HS Code: 10.01), Maize (HS Code: 10.05), Soybean (HS Code: 12.01), Soybean meal (HS Code: 23.04), Straw and forage of cereal grains and grasses, legume forage (alfalfa, clover, etc.) and other forage products (HS Codes: 12.13, 12.14) for feed
Regulation Type: Regular notification
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