G/TBT/N/ISR/726
3 December 2013
(13-6597)
Page: 1/2
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade
Original: English
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6
1.
Notifying Member: ISRAEL
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):
2.
Agency responsible: Israel WTO-TBT Enquiry Point
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:
Israel WTO-TBT Enquiry Point
Ministry of Economy
Tel.: + (972) 3 7347502
Fax: + (972) 3 7347626
E-mail: Yael.Friedgut@economy.gov.il
3.
Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ ], other:
4.
Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Dangerous
substances and mixtures; Protection against dangerous goods (ICS 13.300); Oils and
other products of the distillation of high temperature coal tar; similar products in which the
weight of the aromatic constituents exceeds that of the non-aromatic constituents.
(HS 2707), Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, other than crude;
preparations not elsewhere specified or included, containing by weight 70% or more of
petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being the basic
constituents of the preparations; waste oils. (HS 2710), Organic surface- Active agents
(other than soap); surface- Active preparations, washing preparations (including auxiliary
washing preparations) and cleaning preparations, whether or not containing soap, other
than those of heading 34.01. (HS 3402), Polishes and creams, for footwear, furniture,
floors, coachwork, glass or metal, scouring pastes and powders and similar preparations
(whether or not in the form of paper, wadding, felt, nonwovens, cellular plastics or cellular
rubber, impregnated, coated or covered with such preparations), excluding waxes of
heading 34.04. (HS 3405), Prepared binders for foundry moulds or cores; chemical
products and preparations of the chemical or allied industries (including those consisting of
mixtures of natural products), not elsewhere specified or included. (HS 3824).
5.
Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Dangerous
substances and mixtures: Classification, labelling, marking and packaging (44 pages, in
Hebrew).
G/TBT/N/ISR/726
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Description of content: Revision of the partially mandatory standard SI 2302 Part 1
dealing with dangerous substances and mixtures. This draft standard revision is based,
with a few changes and national deviations on the UN document "Globally Harmonized
System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS)". This regulation is gradually
replacing the 2 European directives which were the base for the standard's earlier edition
(67/548/EEC and 1999/45/EC) and that should be cancelled on 1 June 2015. The UN
regulation's parts dealing with substances had already entered into force in Europe in
2010 and the regulation's parts dealing with mixtures should enter into force in 2015.
Among the major differences introduced in this new revised draft standard we wish to
emphasise the replacement of the R-phrases (risk phrases) and S-phrases (safety
phrases) in Hazard Statements (H) and in the precautionary statements (P).
7.
Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where
applicable: Protection of human health or Safety
8.
Relevant documents:
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Israel Mandatory Standard SI 2302 part 1 (February 2009);
UN Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals
(GHS).
9.
Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force:
To be determined
Generally 60 days after publication in Israel
Official Gazette, Section of Government
Notices
10.
Final date for comments: 60 days from notification
11.
Text available from: National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:
http://www2.moital.gov.il/cmstamat/rsrc/tkina/SI2302Part1.pdf