Regulatory Updates

Distribution date: 27 June 2025

Products Covered: Dietary supplements (HS code(s): 3004); (ICS code(s): 11.120.10; 67.040)

Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification

Distribution date: 27 June 2025 | Final date for Comment: 26 August 2025

This is a revision of GDS 1: Part 7: 1999 Requirements for Labelling: Labelling of Pesticides and Other Toxic Chemicals. The standard specifies the information to be included on labels of all pesticides, in any form, including aerosol insecticides intended for end-user application. It does not apply to pesticides used for human pharmaceuticals or utilised in an industrial setting.

Products Covered: Pesticides and Other Toxic Chemicals (ICS:  13.300, 65.100)

Regulation Type: Revision to Regular Notification

Distribution date: 23 June 2025

Kazakhstan notified in G/SPS/N/KAZ/112 (29 August 2022) the Letter of the Committee for Veterinary Control and Surveillance of the Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan on the introduction of temporary restrictions on the importation into the territory of Kazakhstan from France of live poultry, hatching eggs, down and feathers, poultry meat, all types of poultry products, feed and feed additives for birds, hunting trophies, used equipment for keeping, slaughtering and cutting birds, as well as transit through the territory of Kazakhstan of live poultry from the above-mentioned territory.The notified measure was modified by the Letter of the Committee for Veterinary Control and Surveillance of the Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan.

Products Covered: Live poultry, hatching eggs, down and feathers, poultry meat, all poultry products, fodder and feed additives for birds, trophies of the chase, used equipment for the maintenance, slaughter and cutting of birds

Regulation Type: Addendum to Emergency Notification (SPS)

Distribution date: 23 June 2025

Kazakhstan notified in G/SPS/N/KAZ/196 (21 March 2025) the Letter of the Committee for Veterinary Control and Surveillance of the Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan on the introduction of temporary restrictions on the importation into the territory of Kazakhstan from Germany of live animals susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease, genetic material, meat and meat products that have not been heat-treated to guarantee the destruction of the foot-and-mouth disease virus, milk and dairy products, wool, hair, bristles, trophies, intestinal raw materials, skins and leather that have not been processed using a technology that guarantees the destruction of the foot-and-mouth disease virus, used equipment for their maintenance, slaughter and processing, feed and feed additives for animals, with the exception of those that have been heat-treated to guarantee the destruction of the foot-and-mouth disease virus, of chemical and microbiological origin, as well as the transit from the above-mentioned territory through the territory of Kazakhstan of live animals susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease.The notified measure was modified by the Letter of the Committee for Veterinary Control and Surveillance of the Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan.

Products Covered: Animals susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease and raw materials obtained from them, meat and meat products, milk and dairy products, wool, hair, bristles, trophies, intestinal raw materials, hides and skins, used equipment for their maintenance, slaughter and processing, feed and feed additives for animals

Regulation Type: Addendum to Emergency Notification (SPS)

Distribution date: 19 June 2025

The Regulation implementing Law No. 31182 protecting the health and physical integrity of people from lead content in paints and other coating materials has been approved pursuant to Supreme Decree No. 007-2025-SA, published on 3 June 2025, and will enter into force six months after its publication in the Official Journal, El Peruano.Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo, MINCETUR (Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism)Calle Uno Oeste Nº 50 - Urb. Corpac - Lima 27 - PeruTel.: (+51-1) 513-6100, Ext. 1223 and 1239Email: otc@mincetur.gob.pe__________

Products Covered: Paints (HS Chapters 3208, 3209, 3210, 3112, 3213 and 3214) and other coating materials.

Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification

Distribution date: 19 June 2025

Supreme Decree No. 008-2025-SA amends Articles 23, 94, 110, 123, 124, 125, 127, 128, 129, 135(d) and 137 of the regulations on pharmaceutical establishments approved by Supreme Decree No. 014-2011-SA, which entered into force the day following publication in Official Journal El Peruano.Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo, MINCETUR (Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism)Calle Uno Oeste Nº 50 - Urb. Corpac - Lima 27 - PeruTel.: (+51-1) 513-6100, Ext. 1223 and 1239Email: otc@mincetur.gob.pe__________

Products Covered: Pharmaceutical products:  Medicine, herbal medicine, dietary products and sweeteners, and biological and galenic products (classified under Chapter 30 of the Harmonized System or in the Customs Tariff); Medical devices (falling within tariff headings 9018, 9019, 9021, 9022 and 9402 of the Harmonized System or Customs Tariff); Sanitary products:  Cosmetics, domestic hygiene products and absorbent personal hygiene products (falling within the following tariff headings of the Harmonized System or Customs Tariff:  3303, 3304, 3305, 3401, 3402, 4818, 5601, subheading 3808.91.3401, 3402, 3809.91.00, 4818 and 5601)

Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification

Distribution date: 18 June 2025 | Final date for Comment: 17 August 2025

This document specifies the Chinese common names for those pesticides that used both domestically and internationally.This document applies to all activities within the territory of China related to pesticide management, scientific research, production, distribution, application, public health and epidemic prevention, environmental protection, publication compilation, advertising and publicity, etc. Whenever pesticide names are mentioned in these contexts, the Chinese common names specified in this standard shall be used for expression.

Products Covered: Pesticides（insecticide, fungicide, herbicide and plant growth regulator）(HS code(s): 380891; 380892; 380893); (ICS code(s): 65.100)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 18 June 2025

Pursuant to Supreme Decree No. 014-2011-SA, published on 27 July 2011, the regulations on pharmaceutical establishments have been approved, and will enter into force 180 days after publication in the Official Journal El Peruano.Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo, MINCETUR (Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism)Calle Uno Oeste Nº 50 - Urb. Corpac - Lima 27 - PeruTel.: (+51-1) 513-6100, Ext. 1223 and 1239Email: otc@mincetur.gob.pe__________1 This information can be provided by including a website address, a PDF attachment, or other information on where the text of the final measure/change to the measure/interpretative guidance can be obtained.

Products Covered: Pharmaceutical products:  Medicine, herbal medicine, dietary products and sweeteners, and biological and galenic products (classified under Chapter 30 of the Harmonized System or in the Customs Tariff); Medical devices (falling within tariff headings 9018, 9019, 9021, 9022 and 9402 of the Harmonized System or Customs Tariff); Sanitary products:  Cosmetics, domestic hygiene products and absorbent personal hygiene products (falling within the following tariff headings of the Harmonized System or Customs Tariff:  3303, 3304, 3305, 3401, 3402, 4818, 5601, subheading 3808.91.3401, 3402, 3809.91.00, 4818 and 5601)

Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification

Distribution date: 17 June 2025

The Draft Resolution number  1114, 06 September 2022 - previously notified through G/TBT/N/BRA/1446 - which establishes technical requirements for the inclusion or alteration of substances in the list of preservatives that are allowed in the manufacturing of sanitizing products, was adopted as  Normative Instruction- NI number 368, 20 June 2025  The final text is available only in Portuguese and can be downloaded at:  https://anvisalegis.datalegis.net/action/UrlPublicasAction.php?acao=abrirAtoPublico&num_ato=00000368&sgl_tipo=INM&sgl_orgao=DC/ANVISA/MS&vlr_ano=2025&seq_ato=000&cod_modulo=134&cod_menu=1696 

Products Covered:  FOOD TECHNOLOGY (ICS code(s): 67)

Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification

Distribution date: 17 June 2025

The Committee for Veterinary Control and Surveillance of the Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan reports that on the basis of the official notification of the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH), an outbreak of avian influenza virus was registered in the Northern Ireland of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. In this regard, since 26 February 2025, temporary restrictions have been introduced on the importation and transit to the territory of Kazakhstan from the territory of the Northern Ireland of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland of live poultry and hatching eggs, down and feathers, poultry meat and all types of poultry products that have not undergone heat treatment (at least 70 °C), feed and feed additives for birds (with the exception of feed additives of plant origin, chemical and microbiological synthesis), hunting trophies that have not undergone taxidermy (game birds), used equipment for keeping, slaughtering and cutting birds, as well as transit of live poultry from the above-mentioned territory through the territory of Kazakhstan.        

Products Covered: Live poultry and hatching eggs, down and feathers, poultry meat and all types of poultry products, feed and feed additives for birds, hunting trophies, used equipment for keeping, slaughtering and cutting birds

Regulation Type: Emergency notifications (SPS)