  
  
G/TBT/N/EGY/34/Add.6  
3 June 2020  
(20-3925) Page: 1/1 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication, dated 2 June 2020, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of Egypt .  
 
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Products covered: ICS: 67.120.30 (Fish and fishery products)  
This addendum concerns the notification of the Ministerial Decree No. 173/2020 (1 page, in Arabic) 
that gives the producers and importers a six -month transitional period to abide by the Egyptian 
standard ES 516 for" frozen shrimp" (13 pages, in Arabic).  
It should be not ed that Ministerial Decrees No. 93/2013 (4 pages, in Arabic) which was formerly 
notified in G/TBT/N/EGY/34 dated 30 April 2013, mandated among others the earlier version of 
this Standard.   
Worth mentioning is that this standard is technically identical wit h Codex stand 92 -1981 adopted 
in 1981, revised in 1995, 2017 and amended in 2011, 2013, 2014 : Codex standard for quick 
frozen shrimps or prawns.   
Producers and importers are kept informed of any amendments in the Egyptian standard through 
the publication o f administrative orders in the official gazette.  
Proposed date of adoption: 10 March 2020  
Proposed date of entry into force: 10 April 2020  
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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