Distribution date: 18 September 2024 | Final date for Comment: 17 November 2024

This  Draft  East  African  Standard  specifies the requirements, sampling and test methods for round, oval, square and rectangular section stainless steel for use to manufacture furniture. 

Products Covered: Tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, welded, of circular cross-section, of stainless steel (excl. products having internal and external circular cross-sections and an external diameter of > 406,4 mm, and products of a kind used for oil or gas pipelines or of a kind used in drilling for oil or gas) (HS code(s): 730640); Steel pipes and tubes for specific use (ICS code(s): 77.140.75)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 18 September 2024 | Final date for Comment: 17 November 2024

This  Draft  East  African  Standard  specifies the requirements, sampling and test methods for round, oval, square and rectangular section stainless steel for use to manufacture furniture. 

Products Covered: Tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, welded, of circular cross-section, of stainless steel (excl. products having internal and external circular cross-sections and an external diameter of > 406,4 mm, and products of a kind used for oil or gas pipelines or of a kind used in drilling for oil or gas) (HS code(s): 730640); Steel pipes and tubes for specific use (ICS code(s): 77.140.75)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 18 September 2024 | Final date for Comment: 17 November 2024

This  Draft  East  African  Standard  specifies the requirements, sampling and test methods for round, oval, square and rectangular section stainless steel for use to manufacture furniture. 

Products Covered: Tubes, pipes and hollow profiles, welded, of circular cross-section, of stainless steel (excl. products having internal and external circular cross-sections and an external diameter of > 406,4 mm, and products of a kind used for oil or gas pipelines or of a kind used in drilling for oil or gas) (HS code(s): 730640); Steel pipes and tubes for specific use (ICS code(s): 77.140.75)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 19 September 2024 | Final date for Comment: 18 November 2024

The provisions of the notified Decree, drafted to implement Law No. 28-07 on food safety, seek primarily to: • Define marketed edible vegetable fats and oils; • Establish the names under which such fats and oils can be marketed; • Establish physico-chemical characteristics by Ministerial Order; • Define lawful and unlawful operations involving vegetable fats and oils; • Remove the provision on the nominal volumes in which oils can be presented to the buyer in retail trade; and • Define modalities for the labelling and presentation for sale of edible vegetable fats and oils. The notified draft Decree provides for the repeal of the provisions on vegetable fats and oils set out in the above-mentioned Order of 22 November 1921, in particular those of Articles 5, 6, 7, 8 and 8 bis, and the repeal of Decree No. 2-62-217 of 3 Hija 1381 (8 May 1962) governing the manufacture of edible oils.

Products Covered: Marketed edible vegetable fats and oils

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 20 September 2024 | Final date for Comment: 21 April 2025

Mexico hereby advises of the publication of the draft amendments to various points of Mexican Official Standard NOM-059-SSA1-2015: Good manufacturing practices for medicinal products, published on 5 February 2016, which establishes a reliance scheme to optimize the entry process for safe, effective and quality new treatment options for illnesses requiring advanced therapies (mainly biotechnological medicines) such as cancer and diabetes mellitus. __________

Products Covered: Medicaments (HS 30.04) ;

Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification

Distribution date: 23 September 2024 | Final date for Comment: 22 November 2024

The purpose of the notified draft Regulations is to establish the regulatory provisions for Law No. 29459 - Law on pharmaceutical products, medical devices and sanitary products - governing the registration, control and sanitary surveillance of in vitro diagnostic medical devices, and accessories thereof, to ensure their safety and performance, with a view to protecting public health.

Products Covered: Pharmaceutical products: Classified under Chapter 30 of the Harmonized System or Customs Tariff

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 24 September 2024 | Final date for Comment: 13 November 2024

This Draft Resolution contains provisions on the Good Pharmacovigilance Practices for Medicine Registration Holders for human use, to include the mandatory use of the WHODrug Dictionary to describe medicines when sending notifications.

Products Covered: Medicaments consisting of two or more constituents mixed together for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, not in measured doses or put up for retail sale (excl. goods of heading 3002, 3005 or 3006) (HS code(s): 3003); Medicaments consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, put up in measured doses "incl. those for transdermal administration" or in forms or packings for retail sale (excl. goods of heading 3002, 3005 or 3006) (HS code(s): 3004)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 24 September 2024 | Final date for Comment: 13 November 2024

This Draft Resolution contains provisions on the execution of Terms of Commitment for the purposes of market registration or postmarket registration of medicines and biological products.

Products Covered: Medicaments consisting of two or more constituents mixed together for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, not in measured doses or put up for retail sale (excl. goods of heading 3002, 3005 or 3006) (HS code(s): 3003); Medicaments consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, put up in measured doses "incl. those for transdermal administration" or in forms or packings for retail sale (excl. goods of heading 3002, 3005 or 3006) (HS code(s): 3004)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 25 September 2024 | Final date for Comment: 21 April 2025

This letter introduces a temporary restriction on import of live poultry, poultry products, eggs, equipment for poultry, feed and feed additives for birds from Central Bohemian region of the Czech Republic to the territory of the Russian Federation and on transit of live birds through the Russian territory due to the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in the region mentioned.

Products Covered: Live poultry, egg products, meat and edible offal of poultry, poultry meat products, incubation egg of poultry, Incubation egg (except poultry egg), live bird (except poultry), feed and feed additives for birds, equipment for the maintenance, slaughter and cutting of birds (HS code(s): 0105; 0207; 0208; 0209; 0210; 0407; 0408; 0410; 0504; 0505; 0511; 1506; 1510; 1516; 1518; 1601; 1602; 1603; 190220; 190420; 2102; 2104; 2106; 2309; 2936; 3504; 3507; 3808; 3824; 3923; 3926; 4206; 4415; 4416; 4421; 7020; 7309; 7310; 7326; 7616; 843610; 84362; 843680; 860691; 8609; 8716; 950810; 9705)

Regulation Type: Emergency notifications (SPS)

Distribution date: 26 September 2024 | Final date for Comment: 25 November 2024

This Draft East African Standard specifies the requirements, sampling and test methods for deodorants and antiperspirants.

Products Covered: Personal deodorants and antiperspirants (HS code(s): 330720); Cosmetics. Toiletries (ICS code(s): 71.100.70)

Regulation Type: Regular notification