Distribution date: 04 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 03 January 2025

This draft Zanzibar national standard specifies requirements, method of sampling and test for food grade citric acid. Note: This Draft Tanzania Standard was also notified under TBT  Committee.

Products Covered: Carboxylic acids with aldehyde or ketone function but without other oxygen function, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, peroxyacids and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives (HS code(s): 291830); General methods of tests and analysis for food products (ICS code(s): 67.050)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 06 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 05 January 2025

This draft Zanzibar national standard specifies requirements, method of sampling and test for food grade citric acid.

Products Covered: Carboxylic acids with aldehyde or ketone function but without other oxygen function, their anhydrides, halides, peroxides, peroxyacids and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives (HS code(s): 291830); Cereals, pulses and derived products (ICS code(s): 67.060)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 06 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 05 January 2025

This Draft East African Standard provides guidelines for the design and execution of studies to evaluate the performance of mosquito repellents formulated and prepared for spatial application. This guideline applies to products in any formulation intended to be applied in space.

Products Covered: Insecticides, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (excl. goods of subheadings 3808.52 to 3808.69) (HS code(s): 380891); Insecticides (ICS code(s): 65.100.10)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 06 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 05 January 2025

This Draft East African Standard provides guidelines for the design and execution of studies to evaluate the performance of mosquito repellents formulated and prepared for spatial application. This guideline applies to products in any formulation intended to be applied in space.

Products Covered: Insecticides, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (excl. goods of subheadings 3808.52 to 3808.69) (HS code(s): 380891); Insecticides (ICS code(s): 65.100.10)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 06 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 05 January 2025

This Draft East African Standard provides guidelines for the design and execution of studies to evaluate the performance of mosquito repellents formulated and prepared for spatial application. This guideline applies to products in any formulation intended to be applied in space.

Products Covered: Insecticides, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (excl. goods of subheadings 3808.52 to 3808.69) (HS code(s): 380891); Insecticides (ICS code(s): 65.100.10)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 06 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 05 January 2025

This Draft East African Standard provides guidelines for the design and execution of studies to evaluate the performance of mosquito repellents formulated and prepared for spatial application. This guideline applies to products in any formulation intended to be applied in space.

Products Covered: Insecticides, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (excl. goods of subheadings 3808.52 to 3808.69) (HS code(s): 380891); Insecticides (ICS code(s): 65.100.10)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 06 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 05 January 2025

This Draft East African Standard provides guidelines for the design and execution of studies to evaluate the performance of mosquito repellents formulated and prepared for spatial application. This guideline applies to products in any formulation intended to be applied in space.

Products Covered: Insecticides, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (excl. goods of subheadings 3808.52 to 3808.69) (HS code(s): 380891); Insecticides (ICS code(s): 65.100.10)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 06 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 05 January 2025

The notified document reviews and updates the requirements to be met by fertilizers and biostimulants in terms of their labelling and parameters to be declared. It also establishes a labelling format and provides for market adjustment periods. Moreover, it updates the labelling requirements for fertilizers and biostimulants to further implement Law. No. 21.349 on the composition, labelling and trade of these products, and its specific regulations, in order to, on the one hand, ensure that farmers receive quality products that comply with the standards indicated on their labels and, on the other hand, avoid the contamination of soil with undesirable elements. Further details can be found in the document attached to this notification.

Products Covered: Fertilizers and biostimulants

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 07 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 06 January 2025

This Draft Uganda Standard covers denatured ethanol intended to be used as a cooking or appliance fuel, or both. This product is intentionally denatured as an additional deterrent to consumption and to avoid beverage alcohol use. This specification allows for various denaturants to be used for the intended purpose of cooking or appliance fuel. The application and intent of this product is for household cooking fuel and not for on-road motor fuel use.

Products Covered: Denatured ethyl alcohol and other spirits of any strength (HS code(s): 220720); Fuels (ICS code(s): 75.160)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 07 November 2024 | Final date for Comment: 06 January 2025

This Draft Uganda Standard covers nominally anhydrous denatured fuel ethanol intended to be blended with unleaded or leaded gasolines at 1 % to 15 % by volume for use as automotive spark-ignition engine fuel covered by Specification D4814 as well as other fuel applications or specifications involving ethanol. 

Products Covered: Denatured ethyl alcohol and other spirits of any strength (HS code(s): 220720); Fuels (ICS code(s): 75.160)

Regulation Type: Regular notification