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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/KAZ/26 | Kazakhstan | 2020 | Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances…
Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances management
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Technical regulation or specifications | Chemicals | Draft Technical Regulation "On safety…
Draft Technical Regulation "On safety requirements for fertilizing materials".
Establishment of mandatory requirements for the application and enforcement of fertilizers put into circulation on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan. |
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/KEN/989 | Kenya | 2020 | Sustainable forestry management | Technical regulation or specifications | Energy | Solid biofuel —Sustainable Charcoal and…
Solid biofuel —Sustainable Charcoal and carbonized briquettes for household and commercial use — Specification.
This standard specifies requirements for sustainably produced charcoal and carbonized briquettes that are derived from forest, plantation, sustainably harvested wood and other forest products, by–products and residues from wood processing industry, chemically untreated wood, herbaceous biomass, fruit biomass, aquatic biomass, agro-industrial residues (e.g. sugarcane bagasse, rice husks etc.), treated faecal sludge and organic market wastes, in lump and briquette form that is intended for household and commercial use. |
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/KEN/1003 | Kenya | 2020 | Sustainable agriculture management | Technical regulation or specifications | Agriculture | Production and handling of insects for food and…
Production and handling of insects for food and feed.
This draft Kenya code of practice provides the requirements for sustainable establishment and operation of wild harvested or domesticated insect farming, production, harvesting and post harvesting handling i.e. Processing, storage, packaging, labelling and transport of insects for human consumption and feed industry. |
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/KEN/1023 | Kenya | 2020 | Sustainable agriculture management | Technical regulation or specifications | Agriculture | Sustainable cocoa — Part 3: Requirements for…
Sustainable cocoa — Part 3: Requirements for Cocoa Certification Scheme.
This draft African Standard specifies requirements for the Cocoa Certification Scheme for sustainable cocoa, in relation to cocoa supply chain actors and for the certification of Farmer as an Entity/Farmer Group/Cooperative. It is to be used jointly with ARS 1000-1 and ARS 1000-2. |
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/KEN/1026 | Kenya | 2020 | Sustainable agriculture management | Technical regulation or specifications | Agriculture | Sustainable cocoa — Part 2: Requirements for…
Sustainable cocoa — Part 2: Requirements for Cocoa Quality and Traceability.
This draft African standard specifies the requirements for quality including classification, sampling, test methods, packaging and marking of cocoa beans (Theobroma cacao Linnaeus) . It also specifies the basic requirements for the design and implementation of one or more traceability systems within the cocoa supply chain for sustainably produced cocoa beans from farm to the point of export (Free On Board), as well as to the factory gate at the local level for grinders. |
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/KEN/1025 | Kenya | 2020 | Sustainable agriculture management | Technical regulation or specifications | Agriculture | Sustainable cocoa — Part 1: Requirements for…
Sustainable cocoa — Part 1: Requirements for Cocoa Farmer as an Entity/Farmer Group/Cooperative.
This African Standard specifies the requirements for Cocoa Farmer as an Entity/Farmer Group/Cooperative to comply with Management Systems and for performance relating to structuring the management of Farmer as an Entity/Farmer Group/Cooperative to enhance performance and meet the economic, social and environmental pillars for sustainable cocoa bean (Theobroma cacao Linnaeus) production. |
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/KOR/877 | Korea, Republic of | 2020 | Ozone layer protection | Technical regulation or specifications | Manufacturing | Amendment of particular requirements for air…
Amendment of particular requirements for air-cleaning appliances.
Particular requirements for air-cleaning appliances (KC 60335-2-65) will be amended to strengthen safety controls. A new proposal requires the industry to indicate a warning notice about ozone gas emissions from the products. |
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/KOR/881 | Korea, Republic of | 2020 | Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances…
Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances management, Waste management and recycling
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Technical regulation or specifications | Other | Amendments to the notification of items of waste…
Amendments to the notification of items of waste subject to the Act on the transboundary movement of hazardous wastes and their disposal.
We are trying to delete the exemption of waste export and import declaration for those who want to import and export waste paper that is contaminated with oil or contains foreign substances. |
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/KOR/882 | Korea, Republic of | 2020 | Sustainable agriculture management, Sustainable…
Sustainable agriculture management, Sustainable fisheries management
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Technical regulation or specifications | Agriculture, Fisheries | Proposed Amendments to the enforcement decree of…
Proposed Amendments to the enforcement decree of the act on Promotion of Environment-friendly Agriculture and Fisheries, and Management of and Support for Organic Foods.
A. Developing new detailed guidelines for calculation of expenses in relation to penalty surcharges to habitual violations and detailed standards for collection of such expenses (Article 3-2, Table 1 (draft)) - Prescribing detailed matters regarding imposing and collection of penalty surcharges as laying the basis for imposing penalty surcharges B. Developing detailed standards for placing administrative fines the amendments contains subdividing of upper limit (Table 2 (draft)) - Setting specific standards for imposing administrative fines concerning those violated and importance of matters under the amendments to the act, in particular upper limit of administrative fines C. Amending regulations on delegation of authority of each agency under the amendments to this act (Article 5 (draft)) - Developing specific regulations on delegation including research and evaluation on actual conditions of agricultural and fishery resources and environment, designation of and monitoring agency for education and training, imposing and collection of penalty surcharges. |
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/KOR/899 | Korea, Republic of | 2020 | Waste management and recycling | Technical regulation or specifications | Other | Amendments to the notification of waste items…
Amendments to the notification of waste items with limited imports to promote domestic waste recycling.
Korea is trying to ban the import of waste plastic (PET/PE/PP/PS) to promote domestic waste recycling. Due to the drop in oil prices and the impact of Corona 19, as the amount of accumulated waste plastics in Korea increases and the instability of the recycling market increases, we intend to limit the import of waste plastics of some materials with a large amount of accumulated wastes in order to promote the recycling of waste plastics in Korea. |
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