WORLD TRADE G/TBT/Notif.97.417
5September 1997
ORGANIZATION
(97-3570)
Committee onTechnical Barriers toTrade
NOTIFICATION
Thefollowing notification isbeing circulated inaccordance withArticle 10.6.
1. Member toAgreement notifying: ISRAEL
Ifapplicable, name oflocalgovernment involved (Articles 3.2and7.2):
2. Agency responsible: Ministry ofIndustry andTrade oftheState ofIsrael
Agency orauthority designated tohandle comments regarding thenotification canbe
indicated ifdifferent from above:
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X],2.10.1 [],5.6.2 [X],5.7.1 [],other:
4. Products covered (HSorCCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICSnumbers maybeprovided inaddition, where applicable): PVC forpackages
HS39.23; ICS55.040
5. Title, number ofpages andlanguage(s) ofthenotified document:
- Revision ofOfficial Israeli Standard SI1104 "Vinyl Chloride Monomer inPVC
Packages andPackaged Products", (2pages inHebrew).
- Proposal fortheOfficial Status oftheRevised Standard, (1pageinHebrew).
6. Description ofcontent: Revision ofSI1104 issued bytheStandards Institution of
Israel -Allowed content ofvinyl chloride monomer inPVC packages forfoodstuffs,
cosmetics anddrugs, testmethods. References tothefollowing European Directives:
80/76/EEC, 81/432/EEC, 93/8/EEC. SI1104 hasbeenOfficial under previous Notice of
theMinister ofIndustry andTrade published intheOfficial Gazette, Section of
Government Notices, #3757, April 1990. Therevised Standard isproposed tobe
official.
7. Objective andrationale: Safety
8. Relevant documents: Thenotice willbepublished intheOfficial Gazette, Section of
Government Notices, when adopted.
9. Proposed dateofadoption: notbefore 26October 1997
Proposed dateofentry intoforce: 1998
10. Final dateforcomments: 26October 1997
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X]oraddress andtelefax number ofother
body: