Regulatory Updates

Distribution date: 24 September 2025 | Final date for Comment: 23 November 2025

This Draft East African Standard specifies requirements, sampling and test methods for spatial application mosquito repellents formulated and prepared as tablets.

Products Covered: Insecticides, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (excl. goods of subheadings 3808.52 to 3808.69) (HS code(s): 380891); Insecticides (ICS code(s): 65.100.10); Mosquito repellent tablets

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 24 September 2025 | Final date for Comment: 23 November 2025

This Draft East African Standard specifies requirements, sampling and test methods for spatial application mosquito repellents formulated and prepared as tablets.

Products Covered: Insecticides, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (excl. goods of subheadings 3808.52 to 3808.69) (HS code(s): 380891); Insecticides (ICS code(s): 65.100.10); Mosquito repellent tablets

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 24 September 2025 | Final date for Comment: 23 November 2025

This Draft East African Standard specifies requirements, sampling and test methods for spatial application mosquito repellents formulated and prepared as tablets.

Products Covered: Insecticides, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (excl. goods of subheadings 3808.52 to 3808.69) (HS code(s): 380891); Insecticides (ICS code(s): 65.100.10); Mosquito repellent tablets

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 24 September 2025 | Final date for Comment: 23 November 2025

This Draft East African Standard specifies requirements, sampling and test methods for spatial application mosquito repellents formulated and prepared as tablets.

Products Covered: Insecticides, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (excl. goods of subheadings 3808.52 to 3808.69) (HS code(s): 380891); Insecticides (ICS code(s): 65.100.10); Mosquito repellent tablets

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 23 September 2025

The proposal notified in G/SPS/N/EU/825 (7 March 2025) is now adopted by Commission Regulation (EU) 2025/1891 of 17 September 2025 amending Regulation (EU) 2023/915 as regards maximum levels of inorganic arsenic in fish and other seafood (Text with EEA relevance). This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Products Covered: Fish, crustaceans and bivalve molluscs

Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification

Distribution date: 22 September 2025 | Final date for Comment: 12 November 2025

This part of ARS 1568 specifies the requirements for the materials, size, and make of school sweaters and cardigans.NOTE – This standard shall be used in conjunction with ARS 1568-1

Products Covered: Clothes (ICS code(s): 61.020)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 22 September 2025 | Final date for Comment: 12 November 2025

This Committee Draft African Regional Standard specifies requirements, tests methods, and sampling for woven printed fabrics made from cotton or cotton blend fabrics used for apparel. Note: African prints are also known as Kitenge, Khanga, wax prints, fancy prints, Ankara etc

Products Covered: Woven fabrics of cotton, containing >= 85% cotton by weight and weighing <= 200 g/m² (HS code(s): 5208); Textile fabrics (ICS code(s): 59.080.30)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 22 September 2025 | Final date for Comment: 12 November 2025

This part of ARS 1568 specifies the requirements, test methods, and sampling of school socks.NOTE – This standard shall be used in conjunction with ARS 1568-1.

Products Covered: Clothes (ICS code(s): 61.020)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 22 September 2025

The proposed maximum residue limits (MRLs) for Fluazinam notified in G/SPS/N/JPN/1322 (dated 17 January 2025) were adopted and published on 19 June 2025.The specified MRLs are available as below: 

Products Covered: Meat and edible meat offal (HS codes: 02.01, 02.02 and 02.06)Dairy produce and natural honey (HS codes: 04.01 and 04.09)Animal originated products (HS code: 05.04)Edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers (HS codes: 07.01, 07.03, 07.04, 07.05, 07.06, 07.09, 07.10, 07.13 and 07.14)Edible fruit and peel of citrus fruit (HS codes: 08.04, 08.05, 08.06, 08.08, 08.09, 08.10, 08.11 and 08.14)Tea, mate and spices (HS codes: 09.02, 09.03, 09.04, 09.05, 09.06, 09.07, 09.08, 09.09 and 09.10)Cereals (HS code: 10.01)Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits, miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit (HS codes: 12.02, 12.07 and 12.12)Animal fats and oils (HS code: 15.02)

Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification

Distribution date: 22 September 2025

The proposed maximum residue limits (MRLs) for Flupyrimin notified in G/SPS/N/JPN/1323 (dated 17 January 2025) were adopted and published on 19 June 2025. The specified MRLs are available as below:

Products Covered: Meat and edible meat offal (HS codes: 02.01, 02.02, 02.03, 02.04, 02.05, 02.06, 02.07, 02.08 and 02.09)Aquatic animals and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates (HS codes: 03.02, 03.03, 03.04, 03.06, 03.07 and 03.08)Dairy produce and birds' eggs (HS codes: 04.01, 04.07 and 04.08)Animal originated products (HS code: 05.04)Cereals (HS code: 10.06)Animal fats and oils (HS codes: 15.01, 15.02 and 15.06)

Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification