Distribution date: 05 March 2025 | Final date for Comment: 19 April 2025

The Russian Federation notifies temporary restrictions on imports of live poultry, poultry products and birds' eggs as well as the transit of live poultry from Heves and Pest regions of Hungary to the territory of the Russian Federation due to  deterioration of the epizootic situation with highly pathogenic avian influenza in the regions mentioned.

Products Covered: Live poultry, bird eggs, meat and edible offal of poultry, machinery for preparing animal feeding stuffs, poultry incubators and brooders. HS Codes: 0105; 0407, 0408; 0207;0208,0209,0210,0410 00 000 0,0504 00 000 0,0505,0511,1501,1506 00 000 0,1516 10,1518 00,1601 00,1602, 1603 00,1902 20,1904 20,products from group 20, from 2104, from 2106, 4206 00 000 0, 0106; 508 10 000 0,0106,9705 00 000 0; 9508 10 000 0,0106; 2102, 2309, 2936, 3504, 3507, 3808, 3824; 3923,3926,4415 4416 00 000 0, 4421, 7020 00, 7309 00, 7310, 7326, 7616, 8436 10 000 0, 8436 21 000 0, 8436 29 000 0, 8436 80 900 0, 8606 91 800 0, 8609 00, 8716 39 800;

Regulation Type: Addendum to Emergency Notification (SPS)

Distribution date: 05 March 2025 | Final date for Comment: 04 May 2025

This draft Commission Regulation concerns the refusal of authorisation of a health claim made on foods, other than those referring to the reduction of disease risk and to children's development and health in accordance with Article 18 of Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 2006 on nutrition and health claims made on foods.

Products Covered: Food 

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 06 March 2025 | Final date for Comment: 03 May 2025

This proposal proposes to:  - Prohibit the retail sale of a food that is caffeine and prohibit the addition of caffeine to foods for retail sale unless expressly permitted - Expressly permit the addition of caffeine to Formulated supplementary sports foods (FSSF), subject to compositional, packaging and labelling requirements. 

Products Covered: Foods for retail sale in Australia and New Zealand in which caffeine has been added, including sports foods. 

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 07 March 2025 | Final date for Comment: 06 May 2025

The European Food Safety Authority concluded that the chronic intake of inorganic arsenic via the diet and/or drinking water is associated with an increased risk of several adverse outcomes including lung, bladder and skin cancers and that the current exposure to inorganic arsenic raises a health concerns. In order to continue lowering the exposure of the population to inorganic arsenic, it is therefore appropriate to establish maximum levels for fish and other seafood, which contribute to that exposure. Therefore, the draft Regulation establishes new maximum levels for inorganic arsenic in fish, crustacean and bivalve molluscs, which are listed in the Annex to Regulation (EU) 2023/915.

Products Covered: Fish, crustaceans and bivalve molluscs

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 10 March 2025 | Final date for Comment: 03 May 2025

This proposal proposes to: - Prohibit the retail sale of a food that is caffeine and prohibit the addition of caffeine to foods for retail sale unless expressly permitted- Expressly permit the addition of caffeine to Formulated supplementary sports foods (FSSF), subject to compositional, packaging and labelling requirements.

Products Covered: Foods for retail sale in Australia and New Zealand in which caffeine has been added, including sports foods.

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 11 March 2025 | Final date for Comment: 19 April 2025

The substance of riboflavin 5′- phosphate monosodium salt was authorised as feed additive for all animal species other than aquatic by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/901 for a 10-year period. The current Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/182 is correcting the chemical formula in the characterisation of the active substance laid down in Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/901, which was not correct.

Products Covered: Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding (HS code(s): 2309)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 11 March 2025 | Final date for Comment: 10 May 2025

The existing Mandatory Standard, SI 1147 part 3, dealing with elastic bandages, shall be declared voluntary. This declaration aims to remove unnecessary trade obstacles and lower trade barriers.These types of bandages are listed in the Israel Medical Devices Law 5772-2012, which requires pre-registering in a Recognized Country and presenting a CE or FDA certification proving compliance with European and/or US medical devices regulations or other recognized regulatory bodies. The registration process in the Medical Devices Register is sufficient, and there is no need for regulatory duplication or overlap.This standard is also being revised, as notified in G/TBT/N/ISR/1359. Should the revision process be completed before this declaration, it will apply to the newly revised standard, SI 1147. 

Products Covered: Elastic bandages (HS code(s): 300590); (ICS code(s): 11.120.20)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 11 March 2025 | Final date for Comment: 10 May 2025

The existing Mandatory Standard, SI 1228, dealing with zinc oxide elastic adhesive bandages, shall be declared voluntary. This declaration aims to remove unnecessary trade obstacles and lower trade barriers.These bandages are listed in the Israel Medical Devices Law 5772-2012, which requires pre-registering in a Recognized Country and presenting a CE or FDA certification proving compliance with European and/or US medical devices regulations or other recognized regulatory bodies. The registration process in the Medical Devices Register is sufficient, and there is no need for regulatory duplication or overlap.

Products Covered: Zinc oxid elastic adhesive bandage (HS code(s): 300510); (ICS code(s): 11.120.20)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 11 March 2025 | Final date for Comment: 10 May 2025

The existing Mandatory Standard, SI 1147 part 1, dealing with 1:3 bandages, shall be declared voluntary. This declaration aims to remove unnecessary trade obstacles and lower trade barriers. These types of bandages are listed in the Israel Medical Devices Law 5772-2012, which requires pre-registering in a Recognized Country and presenting a CE or FDA certification proving compliance with European and/or US medical devices regulations or other recognized regulatory bodies. The registration process in the Medical Devices Register is sufficient, and there is no need for regulatory duplication or overlap.This standard is also being revised, as notified in G/TBT/N/ISR/1359. Should the revision process be completed before this declaration, it will apply to the newly revised standard, SI 1147. 

Products Covered: Elastic bandages (HS code(s): 300590); (ICS code(s): 11.120.20)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 11 March 2025 | Final date for Comment: 10 May 2025

The existing Mandatory Standard, SI 14079 part 1, dealing with absorbent gauzes, shall be declared voluntary. This declaration aims to remove unnecessary trade obstacles and lower trade barriers.These gauzes are listed in the Israel Medical Devices Law 5772-2012, which requires pre-registering in a Recognized Country and presenting a CE or FDA certification proving compliance with European and/or US medical devices regulations or other recognized regulatory bodies. The registration process in the Medical Devices Register is sufficient, and there is no need for regulatory duplication or overlap.

Products Covered: Non-active medical devices - Absorbent gauzes (HS code(s): 300590); (ICS code(s): 11.120.20)

Regulation Type: Regular notification