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31 March 2021  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication , dated  30 March 2021 , is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of Egypt . 
 
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Title: The Egyptian Standard ES 4101 "Natural gas fuelling stations — CNG stations for fuelling 
vehicles" (62 pages, in Arabic)  
 
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[  ] Notified measure withdrawn or revoked - date:  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:  
New deadline for comments (if applicable):   
[  ] Interpretive guidance issued and text available from1:  
[  ] Other:  
 
Description:  Products covered: (ICS: 75.200) Petroleum products and natural gas handling 
equipment.  
This addendum concerns the notification of the Ministerial Decree No. 609 /2020 (3 pages, in Arabic) 
that gives the producers and importers a six -month transitional per iod to abide by the Egyptian 
Standard ES 4101 " Natural gas fuelling stations — CNG stations for fuelling vehicles " (62 pages, in 
Arabic).  
It should be noted that the Ministerial Decree No. 477/2018 which was formerly notified in 
G/TBT/N/EGY/197 dated 4 S eptember 2018 mandated among others the earlier version of this 
Egyptian standard.    
Worth mentioning is that this standard is identical with ISO 16923: 2016.  
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: 4 December 2020.  
 
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/197/Add.1  
 
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  Proposed date of entry into force: 15 January 2021.  
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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