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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/TZA/801 | Tanzania | 2022 | Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances…
Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances management, Waste management and recycling, Water management and conservation
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Technical regulation or specifications | Other | PCD 339 – 2:2022, Methods of sampling and test …
PCD 339 – 2:2022, Methods of sampling and test (physical and chemical) for water and wastewater-Part 2: Mercury, First Edition: This standard prescribes two methods for the determination of mercury in water and wastewater.
a) Cold vapour atomic absorption spectrophotometric method; and b) Calorimetric dithizone method. |
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/DNK/127 | Denmark | 2022 | Animal protection, Chemical, toxic and hazardous…
Animal protection, Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances management
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Technical regulation or specifications | Other | Regulatory act which impose restrictions on…
Regulatory act which impose restrictions on hunters in Denmark. It bans use and bringing bullets for hunting ammunition to rifles which contains a concentration of lead that is equal or greater than 1 % w/w (percentage weight) for hunting and derogation shooting. The ban includes only centrefire hunting ammunition (...)
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/ESP/47 | Spain | 2022 | Waste management and recycling | Technical regulation or specifications | Other | The notified draft Ministerial Order establishes…
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.
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/EU/865 | European Union | 2022 | Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances…
Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances management, Waste management and recycling
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Technical regulation or specifications | Other | Proposal for a Regulation of the European…
Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Annexes IV and V to Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 of the European Parliament and of the Council on persistent organic pollutants (COM(2021)656 final): This Proposal for a Regulation amends the annexes that deal with waste in the Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 (the POPs Regulation). These annexes set limits for persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in waste and determine, together with provisions in Article 7 of the Regulation, how waste that contains POP substances has to be managed in the EU. Generally, wastes meeting or exceeding the Annex IV limit must be treated in such a way that the POP substances are destroyed or irreversibly transformed, subject to exceptions. The proposed amendment proposes to list and introduce limits for 3 POP substances and to lower the existing limits for 5 substances already listed.
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/EU/893 | European Union | 2022 | Waste management and recycling | Technical regulation or specifications | Other | (...) This draft Regulation establishes…
(...) This draft Regulation establishes procedures and control regimes for the shipment of waste, depending on the origin, destination and route of the shipment, the type of waste shipped and the type of treatment to be applied to the waste at its destination. It provides the procedural rules for shipping waste both within, through, from and to the Union. New approaches as compared to the current Regulation are proposed: (...)
• new rules that will require both economic operators and public authorities to verify that waste exported from the EU is treated in a sustainable manner in the countries of destination. Concretely, exports of EU non-hazardous waste to third non-OECD countries would only be allowed where these countries have indicated their willingness and ability to receive (certain) waste. Also, exporting companies would be obliged to ensure that the facilities in third countries where their waste is destined to, are independently audited to verify that the received waste will be managed in an environmentally sound manner. For exports to third countries that are members of the OECD, a monitoring mechanism and a safeguard measure are proposed to avoid that a surge in the export of waste from the EU creates environmental or public health problems in the countries of destination; • stronger enforcement of waste shipment rules, including an enhanced role for the EU's anti-fraud office (OLAF). |
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/HKG/53 | Hong Kong, China | 2022 | Other environmental risks mitigation | Technical regulation or specifications | Other | Proposed Amendments to Designated Areas in Noise…
Proposed Amendments to Designated Areas in Noise Control (Construction Work Designated Areas) Notice (Cap. 400L), Noise Control (Air Compressors) Regulations (Cap. 400C) and Noise Control (Hand Held Percussive Breakers) Regulations (Cap. 400D): To tighten the noise emission standards for hand held percussive breakers above 10kg through legislative amendments. (...)
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/HKG/54 | Hong Kong, China | 2022 | Other environmental risks mitigation | Technical regulation or specifications | Other | Proposed Amendments to Designated Areas in Noise…
Proposed Amendments to Designated Areas in Noise Control (Construction Work Designated Areas) Notice (Cap. 400L), Noise Control (Air Compressors) Regulations (Cap. 400C) and Noise Control (Hand Held Percussive Breakers) Regulations (Cap. 400D): To tighten the noise emission standards for portable air compressors, used for the purpose of any construction work, capable of supplying air above 500 kPa pressure through legislative amendments. (...)
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/ITA/36 | Italy | 2022 | Waste management and recycling | Technical regulation or specifications | Other | Regulation on the end-of-waste status of inert…
Regulation on the end-of-waste status of inert construction and demolition waste and other inert waste of mineral origin (...), In general, it is noted that recovered aggregates of various granulometry result from the treatment of inert construction and demolition waste and inert waste of mineral origin, with a similar performance to those from quarries. (...)
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/KEN/1254 | Kenya | 2022 | Waste management and recycling | Technical regulation or specifications | Other | This Standard specifies the requirements for…
This Standard specifies the requirements for chemical treatment of wastewater by precipitation/flocculation for removal of phosphorus and suspended solids.
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/MOZ/21 | Mozambique | 2022 | Waste management and recycling | Technical regulation or specifications | Other | Proposal regulation on the Banning of Production,…
Proposal regulation on the Banning of Production, Import, Marketing and Use of the Bag: The purpose of this Regulation is to establish rules and procedures regarding the banning of plastic bags, with regard to their production, importation, marketing and use, with a view to reducing negative impacts on human health, infrastructure and the environment in general.
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