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This draft Regulation would introduce a new entry to Annex XVII to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006. It would prohibit the placing on the market of microplastics intentionally added to products in concentration above 0.01% by weight. (Bio)degradable, water-soluble, inorganic and natural polymers are excluded from the scope of the restriction. The draft Regulation provides for a number of derogations from the ban on the placing on the market of microplastics, inter alia for uses at industrial sites or where microplastics releases could be avoided. For derogated uses, the draft Regulation requires that microplastics releases are 1) minimised though appropriate instructions for use and disposal of products and 2) monitored and reported annually to the European Chemicals Agency.

This draft Regulation would amend entry 63 to Annex XVII to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006. It would prohibit the use of lead and lead compounds in Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) articles. Moreover, it would prohibit the placing on the market of PVC articles containing a concentration of lead equal or greater than 0,1% of the PVC. The Regulation provides for a number of derogations to this restriction, inter alia for PVC-silica separators in lead acid batteries and PVC articles containing recovered rigid PVC. To benefit from the latter derogation, the recovered origin of the PVC material needs to be certified by an independent third party.

The notified draft Ministerial Order establishes the end-of-waste criteria for certain plastic waste that is treated mechanically. Meeting those criteria means this plastic waste is treated as a product and not as waste. The technical criteria are based on the document, published in 2014, prepared by the Joint Research Centre at the request of the European Commission. The regulation defines which plastic waste is accepted, the necessary mechanical treatments, the quality criteria to be met by the resulting material following the recovery operation and the procedure for verifying compliance with the criteria through management systems. This regulation covers mechanical treatments only and not others, such as chemical treatments, that can be carried out on the same waste flows.

Draft Royal Decree on packaging and packaging waste: The notified draft Royal Decree establishes general obligations for producers of packaged goods, whether in household, commercial or industrial packaging. Producers must comply individually or collectively through extended producer responsibility (EPR) systems. The draft (...) sets out obligations for producers in the area of e-commerce. It includes specific objectives on preventing the generation of packaging waste, as well as on reuse and recycled content. It also includes national objectives for separate packaging and recycling collections. (...) The draft also introduces new marking requirements for packaging - for example, indicating its reusability, the section or container in which it should be deposited or, where applicable, the symbol associated with the deposit-return system. It regulates the mechanisms needed to increase transparency and appropriate monitoring and control of producers' obligations in terms of both product marketing and product waste management. Lastly, the draft Royal Decree includes provisions on the deposit-return system for reusable packaging and some single-use beverage containers. With regard to the latter, and pursuant to Law No. 7/2022, the system will become obligatory if the objectives for the separate collection of single-use plastic bottles set for 2023 or 2027 are not met, and will also affect cans and cardboard packaging (cartons).

The Ministerial Decree No. 559 /2022(3 pages, in Arabic) gives the producers and importers a six-month transitional period to abide by the Egyptian standard ES 3040 which specifies requirements, sampling, test methods for single layer plastic shopping sacks in different shapes and dimensions, which are made of thermoplastic and intended to be used in carrying different products. (...)

Ministerial Decree No. 523 /2021(2 pages, in Arabic) gives the producers and importers a six-month transitional period to abide by the Egyptian standard ES1481 which specifies the household utensils covered with non-stick materials used in household cooking, from a substance based on polytetrafluoroethylene, to which food does not stick, to cover the inner surfaces of cookware made of aluminium ores for household purposes with their different commercial names, as well as the lids of these utensils and hand rivets if covered with the same Subject. This standard cancels and supersedes its last edition ES 1481:2008. (...)

The proposed Single-Use Plastic Prohibition Regulations (the proposed Regulations) would prohibit the manufacture, import and sale of six categories of single-use plastic items (i.e., single-use plastic checkout bags, cutlery, food service ware made from or containing problematic plastics, ring carriers, stir sticks and straws). Manufacture and import for the purposes of export would not be subject to the proposed prohibition. Checkout bags, cutlery, and straws have reusable substitutes so the proposed Regulations would identify performance standards to differentiate between single-use and reusable items for these three product categories. The Regulations would also provide exemptions for straws to accommodate people with disabilities. (...) The six categories of single-use plastic items subject to the proposed Regulations are commonly found on Canadian shorelines and terrestrial litter clean-ups. The Government estimates that the proposed Regulations would prevent 23,000 tonnes of plastic pollution over a period of ten years. (...) items, when littered, likely pose a threat of harm to wildlife through entanglement, ingestion or habitat disruption. The six categories of single-use plastic items also present barriers to fostering a circular economy in Canada that would keep plastics in the economy and out of the environment because they have low recycling rates, are known to hamper recycling or wastewater treatment systems, and have barriers to increasing recycling rates. (...)

This standard specifies requirements for primary packaging for pills and tablets made from low density polyethylene (LDPE) plastic. The standard is applicable to plastic packaging bags of zip lock top.

This Botswana standard specifies the characteristics of liquid detergents for use in soft or hard water for hand dishwashing and for the cleaning of hard surfaces such as painted surfaces, floors, ceilings, ceramic and plastic tiles, and the surfaces of equipment.

This standard specifies requirements for materials and the procedure for use during the various stages of production of plastics materials, coating and printing of plastics items for food contact and subsequent use. This includes such items as packages, domestic containers, wrapping materials, utensils or any other plastics items intended for food contact applications.