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14 February 2022  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
 
NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication , dated  14 February 2022 , is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of Egypt . 
 
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Title: The Egyptian Standard ES 3123 -3 "Safety of toys - Part 3: Migration of certain elements" (65 
pages, in English).  
 
Reason for Addendum:  
[  ] Comment period changed - date:   
[X] Notified measure adopted - date: 24 August 2021  
[  ] Notified measure published - date:  
[X] Notified measure enters into force - date: 25 November 2021  
[  ] Text of final measure available from1:  
[  ] Notified measure withdrawn or revoked - date:  
Relevant symbol if measure re -notified:   
[  ] Content or scope of notified measure changed  and text available from1:  
New deadline for comments (if applicable):   
[  ] Interpretive guidance issued and text available from1:  
[  ] Other:  
 
Description:  Products covered: toys (ICS 97.200.50)  
This addendum concerns the notification of Ministerial Decree No. 524/2021(2 pages, in Arabic) that 
gives the producers and importers a six -month transitional period to abide by the Egyptian Standard 
ES 3123 -3 "Safety of toys - Part 3: Migration of certain elements" (65  pages, in English).  
It should be noted that Ministerial Decree No. 609 /2020 (3  pages, in Arabi c) which was formerly 
notified in G/TBT/N/EGY/16/Add.4 dated 30 March 2021, Ministerial Decree No. 171/2020 (2 pages, 
in Arabic) which was formerly notified in G/TBT/N/EGY/16/Add.3 dated 3 June 2020 mandated 
among others the earlier versions of this Egypti an standard.  
Worth mentioning is that this standard adopts the technical content of EN 71 -3:2019.  
Producers and importers are kept informed of any amendments in the Egyptian standards through 
the publication of administrative orders in the official gazette . 
Proposed date of adoption: 24 August 2021  
 
1 This information can be provided by including a website address, a pdf attachment, or other 
information on where the text of the final /modified  measure and/or interpretive guidance can be obtained.  G/TBT/N/EGY/16/Add.5  
 
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  Proposed date of entry into force: 25 November 2021  
Agency or authority designated to handle comments and text available from:  
National Enquiry Point Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality 16 Tadre eb El -
Modarrebeen St., Ameriya, Cairo – Egypt E -mail: eos@idsc.net.eg /eos.tbt@eos.org.eg  Website: 
http://www.eos.org.eg  Tel: + (202) 22845528 Fax: + (202) 22845504  
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