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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/IND/224 | India | 2021 | Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances…
Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances management
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Technical regulation or specifications | Chemicals | Palm Fatty Acids (Quality Control) Order, 2021:…
Palm Fatty Acids (Quality Control) Order, 2021: Palm Fatty Acids are obtained by hydrolysis of Palm Oils. Palm Oils is obtained from the fleshy part of Palm Fruits. Palm Fatty Acids consist of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids in equal amounts, Palmitic Acid and Oleic Acids are being the main fatty acids. Palm Fatty Acids are used in the soap industry. The large quantity usage and imports of Fatty Acids and the possible health impact of low purity. So, for the protection of human health and the environment, the standard of Palm Fatty Acids needs to be made mandatory. (...)
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/IND/225 | India | 2021 | Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances…
Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances management
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Technical regulation or specifications | Chemicals | Fatty Acids (Quality Control) Order, 2021: Rice…
Fatty Acids (Quality Control) Order, 2021: Rice Bran Fatty Acids are produced by the hydrolysis of Rice Bran Oil. Rice Bran Oil is produced by solvent extraction of the layer around the endosperm of rice, known as Rice Bran . Rice Bran Fatty Acid contains 20-25% of saturated and 75-80% of unsaturated fatty acids. The main unsaturated fatty acids are Oleic Acids (40-50%) and Linolenic Acids (28-42%) . These fatty acids are used in the manufacture of soaps. The large quantity usage and imports of Fatty acids and possible health impact of low purity. So, for the protection of human health and the environment, the standard of Rice Bran Fatty Acids needs to be made mandatory. (...)
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/IND/226 | India | 2021 | Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances…
Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances management
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Technical regulation or specifications | Chemicals | Fatty Acids (Quality Control) Order, 2021:…
Fatty Acids (Quality Control) Order, 2021: Rubberseed Fatty Acids are produced by hydrolysis of Rubber seed Oil. Rubber seed oil is obtained from seed kernels of Rubber trees. Rubber Seed Fatty Acids contain Linolenic Acis (30-40%), Oleic Acid (17-30%) and Linoleic Acid (22-24%) and other saturated fatty Acids like Palmitic acid and Stearic Acids. These fatty acids are used in the manufacture of Soap industry and also in Paints/varnish industry. The large quantity usage and imports of Fatty acids and possible health impact of low purity. So, for protection of human health and environment, the standard of Rubberseed Fatty Acids needs to be made mandatory. (...)
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/ISR/1182 | Israel | 2021 | Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances…
Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances management
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Technical regulation or specifications | Chemicals | Industrial Chemicals Registering Law, 5781-2020:…
Industrial Chemicals Registering Law, 5781-2020: Israel's Ministry of Environmental Protection promotes establishing a mechanism for registering industrial chemicals and publishes a memorandum of a law titled "Industrial Chemicals Registering Law, 5781-2020". The law establishes a new mechanism aiming to reduce harmful effects to humans and the environment from chemicals used as raw materials in the local industry. (...)
Israel has an extensive regulation relating to the practices, import, production, use, maintenance, and transportation of chemical substances. However, the existing regulations are decentralized and allocated among various government ministries and usually does not include a systematic assessment of the chemicals and their effects on humans or their environmental impact. The new draft law sets a unified mechanism to register industrial chemicals, to be governed and regulated under one entity in the Ministry of Environmental Protection. (...) |
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/JPN/685 | Japan | 2021 | Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances…
Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances management, MEAs implementation and compliance, Other environmental risks mitigation
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Technical regulation or specifications | Chemicals | Revision of the "Order for Enforcement of…
Revision of the "Order for Enforcement of the Act on the Evaluation of Chemical Substances and Regulation of Their Manufacture, etc.": Based on Article 17 and 22 of Act on the Evaluation of Chemical Substances and Regulation of Their Manufacture, etc. (hereinafter referred to as "the Act"), the following will be designated as Class I Specified Chemical Substances which need authorization to manufacture or import. (...)
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/KOR/955 | Korea, Republic of | 2021 | Other environmental risks mitigation, Water…
Other environmental risks mitigation, Water management and conservation
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Technical regulation or specifications | Chemicals | Draft of Partial Amendment to Enforcement…
Draft of Partial Amendment to Enforcement Regulation of the Prevention of Pollution from Ships: The amendment is designed to newly establish Paragraph 2 under Article 5 (Harmful Antifouling Agents) additionally designating diuron or diuron-included antifoulants as harmful antifouling agents.
The Republic of Korea takes a regulatory measure to put diuron or diuron-included antifoulants on the list of harmful antifouling agents to join a global attempt to forbid the use of the substance as an antifoulant out of its potential risk to the environment. The measure would help sea water to be pollution-free |
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/KOR/980 | Korea, Republic of | 2021 | Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances…
Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances management
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Technical regulation or specifications | Chemicals | 1. Draft partial amendment of the Enforcement…
1. Draft partial amendment of the Enforcement Decree of the Act on Registration, Evaluation, etc. of Chemicals:
- Major Contents: A. Additional chemical substances that can be waived some of data requirements for registration (Article 13) (...) B. Improved procedure for designation of authorization substances (Article 19) (...) C. ME can request the information on export and import of chemical substance (Article 29(3)) (...) D. Improvement of the provisions related to entrusted works (Article 19) 2. Draft partial amendment of the Enforcement Rule of the Act on Registration, Evaluation, etc. of Chemicals: - Major Contents: A. Additional chemical substances that can be waived some of data requirements for registration (Article 5) (...) B. Submission of the opinion about hazard review results (Article 24) (...) C. Methods to prepare and provide the chemical safety information (Article 36) (...) D. Additional data to be submitted to register nanomaterials (Attachment 1) (...) |
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/KOR/1003 | Korea, Republic of | 2021 | Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances…
Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances management, Other environmental risks mitigation
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Risk assessment, Technical regulation or…
Risk assessment, Technical regulation or specifications
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Chemicals | "Regulations on the scope and method of…
"Regulations on the scope and method of preparation of Biocidal Active Substances and Products Approval application Data":
- Refinement of component analysis data for identification of biocidal active substances - Systematization of scope of human and environmental risk assessment |
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/MAC/17 | Macao, China | 2021 | Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances…
Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances management, MEAs implementation and compliance
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Ban/Prohibition, Technical regulation or…
Ban/Prohibition, Technical regulation or specifications
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Chemicals | Chief Executive's Decision No. 231/2020: …
Chief Executive's Decision No. 231/2020: Prohibition of import, export and transit of mercury and amalgam listed in The Minamata Convention on Mercury and contained in the Schedule annexed to Chief Executive's Decision No. 231/2020 in the Macao Special Administrative Region.
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Technical Barriers to Trade | G/TBT/N/MOZ/16 | Mozambique | 2021 | Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances…
Chemical, toxic and hazardous substances management
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Technical regulation or specifications | Chemicals | Fertilizer Management Regulation: The purpose of…
Fertilizer Management Regulation: The purpose of this Regulation is to establish a legal regime to ensure that all processes involving the activities of production, use, import, export, transit, handling and application of fertilizers are carried out without prejudice to public, animal and environmental health.
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