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8 January 2020  
(20-0092) Page: 1/1 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication, dated 6 January 2020, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of Egypt .  
 
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Products covered: Wood, sawlogs and sawn timber (ICS 79.040), Plywood (ICS 79.060.10)  
This addendum concerns the notification of the Ministerial Decree No.1093/2019 (1 page, in 
Arabic) that gives the producers and importers a six -month transitional period to abide by the 
Egyptian Standard ES 8282 -2"Plywood — Bonding quality — Part 2: Requirements"(9 pages, in 
Arabic).  
It should be noted that the draft of this Egyptian standard was formerly notified in 
G/TBT/N/EGY/229 dated 17 September 2019.  
Worth mentioning is that this standard is technically identical with ISO  12466 -2:2007 (con firmed 
in 2016).  
Producers and importers are kept informed of any amendments in the Egyptian standard through 
the publication of administrative orders in the official gazette.  
Proposed date of adoption: 29/11/2019  
Proposed date of entry into force: 17/12/2 019 
Agency or authority designated to handle comments and text available from:  
National Enquiry Point  
Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality  
16 Tadreeb 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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