  
  
G/TBT/N/EGY/212/Add.1  
4 June 2020  
(20-3984) 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 67.040 Food products in general)  
This addendum concerns the notification of the Ministerial Decree No. 209/2020 (2 pages, in 
Arabic) which extends the expiry dates to be nine months in case of frozen fish and to be ten 
months in case  of frozen liver from the date of slaughter. This decision is valid until 31 December 
2020 which concerns the Egyptian Standard ES 2613 -2/2008 for "shelf life for food products part : 
2 shelf life" (18 pages, in Arabic)    
It should be noted that the Minist erial Decree No. 100/2019 (2 pages, in Arabic) which was 
formerly notified in G/TBT/N/EGY/212 dated 10 May 2019 mandated among others the earlier 
version of this Egyptian Standard.  
Worth mentioning is that this standard has been formulated according to Nat ional Studies and its 
updates.  
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: 11 April 2020.  
Proposed date of entry i nto force: 29 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/http://www.eos.org.eg  Tel: + (202) 22845528 Fax: + (202) 22845504  
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