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Ministerial Decree No. 241/2016 (3 pages, in Arabic) mandating Egyptian Standards on Household and Similar Electrical Appliances.

This Decree mandates that the producers and importers of household and similar electrical appliances must comply with the following relevant Egyptian Standards:
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5. ES NO. 6000-3/2016 for "Household refrigerating appliances – Characteristics and test methods – Part 3: Energy consumption and volume"
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28. ES NO. 7316/2016 for "Particular requirements for food waste disposers"

Draft Commission Directive amending Council Directive 75/324/EEC as regards the maximum allowable pressure of aerosol dispensers and to adapt its labelling provisions to Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (5 pages, in English)

[...] The increase in pressure will therefore address this problem for some applications and will encourage industry to switch from flammable to non-flammable and thus more environmental friendly propellants.

Draft Commission Delegated Directive amending, for the purposes of adapting to technical progress, Annex IV to Directive 2011/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards an exemption for cadmium anodes in Hersch cells for certain oxygen sensors used in industrial monitoring and control instruments

This draft Commission Delegated Directive concerns an application specific and temporary exemption from the RoHS 2 (Directive 2011/65/EU) substance restrictions.

Relevant documents:
• Directive 2011/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2011 on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment

Draft Commission Delegated Directive amending, for the purposes of adapting to technical progress, Annex IV to Directive 2011/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards an exemption for lead in solders of electrical connections to temperature measurement sensors in certain devices

This draft Commission Delegated Directive concerns an application specific and temporary exemption from the RoHS 2 (Directive 2011/65/EU) substance restrictions.

Relevant documents:
• Directive 2011/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2011 on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment

Draft Commission Implementing Regulation concerning the non-renewal of approval of the active substance isoproturon, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, and amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011

This draft Commission Implementing Regulation provides that the approval of the active substance isoproturon is not renewed in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009.

In order for an active substance to be approved in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 (concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market), it must be demonstrated that the substance is not harmful to human health, animal health or the environment.

Draft Commission Implementing Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 889/2008 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 on organic production and labelling of organic products with regard to organic production, labelling and control.

The following points of Article 1 shall apply from the date indicated for them:
a) point (1) shall apply from [12 months after the date of entry into force of this Regulation]
b) points (2) and (3) (Article 25e on the use of non- organic aquaculture juveniles and Article 25o(1) on the maximum percentage of seed from non- organic bivalve shellfish hatcheries) shall apply retroactively from 1 January 2016*

This draft Commission Implementing Regulation provides that the approval of the active substance amitrole is not renewed in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009.

Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: Protection of human health or safety; protection of animal or plant life or health; protection of the environment.

Verification tolerances in product-specific implementing measures under the Ecodesign Directive (2009/125/EC) are provided for the use of national market surveillance authorities verifying compliance, to account for the inevitable differences in the measurement equipment across Europe. However, some manufacturers apply the tolerances to the values they measure, in order to declare non-compliant appliances as compliant, or to declare better performance.

Draft Commission Delegated Regulation amending Delegated Regulations

Verification tolerances in product-specific delegated acts under the Energy Labelling Directive (2010/30/EU) are provided for the use of national market surveillance authorities verifying compliance, to account for the inevitable differences in the measurement equipment across Europe. However, some manufacturers apply the tolerances to the values they measure, in order to declare higher energy efficiency classes, or to declare better performance. To tackle the problem and clarify the intended use of verification tolerances, a draft horizontal measure amending the existing energy labelling delegated acts is proposed.

Draft Commission Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures by adding an Annex on harmonised information relating to emergency health response

The purpose of this draft proposal for an amendment of Regulation (EC) 1272/2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (the CLP Regulation) is to insert a new Annexon harmonised information to be provided to national appointed bodies relating to emergency health response (Art. 45 CLP Regulation) .

Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: Protection of human health and the environment , ensuring the proper functioning of the EU internal market.