NOTIFICATION

Addendum

The following communication, dated 25 March 2026, is being circulated at the request of the delegation of Egypt.

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Title: The Egyptian Standard ES 4900 "Household synthetic detergents powder".

Description: Products covered: Surface active agents (ICS: 71.100.40).

This addendum concerns the extension of the time period that gives the producers and importers a six-month transitional period to abide by the Egyptian Standard ES 4900 "Household synthetic detergents powder"(14 pages, in Arabic), i.e the standard will enter into force on 19 September 2026 in stead of 19 March 2026.

It should be noted that the Ministerial Decree No. 246 /2025 (5 pages, in Arabic) which was formerly notified in G/TBT/N/EGY/200 /Add.2 dated 8 October 2025, the Ministerial Decree No. 478/2018 (3 pages, in Arabic) which was formerly notified in G/TBT/N/EGY/200 dated 4 September 2018 mandated among others the earlier versions of this Standard and the draft of this standard was formerly notified in G/TBT/N/EGY/200/Add.1 dated 27 March 2025.

Worth mentioning is that this standard complies with the following:

• Regulation (EC) No. 648/2004 of the European parliament and of the council on detergents.

• Regulation (EC) No. 1907/2006 - Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH).

• Regulation (EC) No. 1272/2008 - classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (CLP).

• JIS K 3371/2019.

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: 19 March 2026

Proposed date of entry into force: 19 September 2026

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@eos.org.eg/eos.tbt@eos.org.eg

Website: http://www.eos.org.eg

Tel: + (202) 22845528

Fax: + (202) 22845504

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