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30 March 2021  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
 
NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication , dated  29 March 2021 , is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of Egypt . 
 
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Title: The Egyptian Standard ES 1649 "Durum Wheat Semolina And Durum Wheat Flour" (10 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[  ] Notified measure withdrawn or revoked - date:  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: 67.060 (Cereals, pulses and derived products)  
This addendum concerns the notification of the Ministerial Decree No 608/2020 (2 pages, in Arabic) 
that gives the producers and importers a six -month transitional period to abide by the Egyptian 
Standard ES 1649 "Durum Wheat Semolina And Durum Wheat Flour" (10 Pages, In Arabic).  
It should be noted that the Ministerial Decree 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 
Egyptian Standard.  
Worth mentioning is that this standard is technical identical with CXS 178 -1991 Adopted in 1991. 
Revised in 1995. Amended in 2019.  
Producers and importers are kept informed of any amendments in the Egyptian standards through 
the publication of administrative orders in the official gazette.  
 
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/34/Add.8  
 
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  Proposed date of adoption: 4 December 2020.  
Proposed date of entry into f orce: 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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