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In order to promote the healthy and sustainable development of the automobile industry, ensure safety, environmental protection, energy saving and anti-theft performance of the products, different access permissions are applied to various types of road vehicle manufacturing enterprises and their products respectively in this document. It specifies that road vehicle products manufacturing enterprises are qualified to produce and sell corresponding vehicles only after meeting corresponding requirements and obtaining access permission.

Draft Decree regulating the integral management of chemical substances for industrial use and containing other determinations. Its articles cover the following:

Purpose; Scope; Definitions; Instruments for the management of chemical substances for industrial use; Register of chemical substances for industrial use; Obligation to conduct environmental and health risk assessments; Obligation to implement environmental and health risk reduction and management programmes; Environmental risk assessment; Health risk assessment; Environmental risk reduction and management programmes; Health risk reduction and management programme; Environmental monitoring of chemical substances for industrial use; Monitoring of the effects on health of the utilization of chemical substances for industrial use, Article 15. Intersectoral Follow-up Committee for the Management of Chemical Substances for Industrial Use (CISQUIN); Composition of CISQUIN; Functions of CISQUIN; Obligations of importers and manufacturers; Obligations of the marketers and distributors; Obligations of transporters; Obligations of users; Reliable data available; Mutual acceptance of data; Right to use information; Non-confidential information; Exchange of confidential information; Inspection, monitoring and control; and Period of validity

The purpose of the notified regulations is to regulate the functions of the Ministry of the Environment and Energy (MINAE) through the Directorate-General for the Transportation and Marketing of Fuel, and to establish the legal and technical requirements, and procedures, governing the distribution, storage and marketing of hydrocarbon fuels intended for the end consumer. The text also establishes minimum technical specifications for the construction and remodelling of service stations and storage tanks, with a view to ensuring that they operate in the safest and most effective manner possible, while preserving the integrity of the environment.

The notified document establishes specifications governing the manufacture, import, use and maintenance of portable cylinders, stationary tanks, and equipment and appliances for the supply and use of LPG in the country, to ensure that they operate in conditions that guarantee environmental protection and human safety. It applies to portable cylinders, stationary tanks, equipment and appliances that are manufactured, imported, used, installed or circulated in the country, and to their maintenance.

Draft revision of Ecuadorian Standardization Institute Technical Regulation (RTE INEN) No. 088 (1R) on "Surface tension agents". It covers the following:

Purpose; Scope; Definitions; Requirements; Sampling; Conformity assessment tests; Reference documents; Conformity assessment procedure; Monitoring and inspection authority; Penalty regime; Liability of conformity assessment bodies; and Review and updating.

The notified Technical Regulation establishes the product and labelling requirements to be met by new pneumatic tyres of rubber for motor vehicles and cycles, including with rims, prior to the import, customs clearance and marketing of the domestic or imported product. It covers the following: Purpose; Scope; Definitions; Product requirements; Labelling requirements; Sampling; Conformity assessment tests; Reference documents; Conformity assessment procedure; Monitoring and inspection authority; Penalty regime; Liability of conformity assessment bodies; and Transitional provisions

Ministerial Decree No.1002/2017 gives the producers and importers a transitional period of six months to abide by the Egyptian standard ES 164 with its issued parts specifying the construction and performance characteristics as well as the requirements and methods of test for the safety and marking of freestanding and built-in domestic cooking appliances burning the combustible gases.

Worth mentioning is that this standard complies with EN 30-1-3:2003+A1:2006, EN 30-1-4:2012

The Ministerial Decree No.1002/2017 gives the producers and importers a twelve-month transitional period to abide by the Egyptian standard ES 8057:2017 which is concerned with identifying the specific requirements of energy -efficient electrical household vacuum clean ers, which aims to rationalize electrical energy consumption and improve environmental conditions by reducing emissions which are harmful to the environment caused by the increasing use of energy .

Worth mentioning is that this standard complies with IEC 62885-2/2016 and Regulation (EU) No 665/2013.

The Draft of Egyptian standard specifies the requirements of energy efficiency for refrigerators, refrigerator-freezers and freezers, that aims to conserve the electrical energy consumption and improve the environmental conditions through reducing the emission of harmful gases which are produced as a result of the over consumption of the energy.

Draft Order establishing health and natural environment protection requirements governing the importation of animal species (including invasive species) not subject to harmonized European Union regulations