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22 August 2022  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
 
NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication , dated  22 August 2022, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of Egypt . 
 
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Title:  The notification of the Ministerial Decree No. 393/2022  
 
Reason for Addendum:  
[ ] Comment period changed - date:   
[ ] Notified measure adopted - date:  
[ ] Notified measure published - date:  
[ ] Notified measure enters into force - date:  
[ ] Text of final measure available from1:  
[ ] Notified measure withdrawn or revoked - date:  
Relevant symbol if measure re -notified:   
[X] Content or scope of notified measure changed  and text available from1:  
Ministerial Decree No. 393/2022  
New deadline for comments (if applicable):   
[ ] Interpretive guidance issued and text available from1:  
[ ] Other:  
 
Description:  Products covered: ICS : 67.040 (Food products in general)  
This addendum concerns the notification of the Ministerial Decree No. 393/2022 (2 pages, in Arabic) 
which extends the shelf life of frozen fish and frozen liver stipulated in the Egyptian Standard ES 
2613-2/2008 for "Shelf life for food products part 2: shelf l ife"(18 pages, in Arabic) to be nine months 
in case of frozen fish and ten months in case of frozen liver from the date of slaughter. This Decree 
is valid from 1 July 2022 until 30 June 2023.  
It should be noted that the Ministerial Decree No. 100/2019 (2 p ages, in Arabic) which was formerly 
notified in G/TBT/N/EGY/212 dated 10 May 2019, Ministerial Decree No. 653/2020 (2 pages, in 
Arabic) which was formerly notified in G/TBT/N/EGY/212/Add.2 dated 15 March 2021 and Ministerial 
Decree No. 222/2021 (1 page, in  Arabic) which was formerly notified in G/TBT/N/EGY/212/Add.3 
dated 31 August 2021, Ministerial Decree No. 522/2021 (2 pages, in Arabic) which was formerly 
notified in G/TBT/N/EGY/212/Add.4 dated 16 February 2022 mandated among others the earlier 
versions and amendments of this Standard.  
 
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/212/Add.5  
 
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  Worth mentioning is that this standard has been formulated according to National Studies and its 
updates.  
Producers and importers are kept informed of any amendments in the Egyptian standards through 
the publication of admi nistrative orders in the official gazette.  
Proposed date of adoption: 2 July 2022.  
Proposed date of entry into force: 22 July 2022.  
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  
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