G/SPS/N/EGY/92/Add.2  
 
15 March 2021  
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Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication, received on 13 March 2021, is being circulated at the request of the 
Delegation of Egypt . 
 
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Ministerial  Decree No. 100/2019 that gives the producers and importers a six -month transitional 
period to abide by Egyptian Standards related to some food products  
This addendum concerns the notification of the Ministerial Decree No. 653/2020 which extends the 
shelf life date 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 decree is valid until 30 June 2021 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 Egyptian Standard ES 2613 -2/2008 for "Shelf life for food products part  2" 
and its Ministerial Decree No. 209/2020 (2 pages, in Arabic) were formerly notified in 
G/SPS/N/EGY/92/Add.1 da ted 3 June 2020 mandated -among other  things - the earlier version of this 
Egyptian Standard.  
Worth mentioning is that this Standard has been formulated according to National Studies and its 
updates.  
Producers and importers are kept informed of any amendmen ts in the Egyptian standard through  the 
publication of administrative orders in the Official Gazette.  
Proposed date of adoption: 30 December 2020  
Proposed date of entry into force: 17 January 2021  
This addendum concerns a:  
[ ] Modification of final date for comments  
[X] Notification of adoption, publication or entry into force of regulation  
[ ] Modification of content and/or scope of previously notified draft regulation  
[ ] Withdrawal of proposed regulation  
[ ] Change in proposed date of adoption, publication or date of entry into force  
[ ] Other:  
Comment period: (If the addendum extends the scope of the previously notified measure 
in terms of products and/or potentially affected Members, a new deadline for receipt of 
comments should be  provided, normally of at least 60 calendar days. Under other 
circumstances, such as extension of originally announced final date for comments, the 
comment period provided in the addendum may vary.)  
[ ] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the adden dum to the notification and/or 
(dd/mm/yy) : Not applicable  G/SPS/N/EGY/92/Add.2  
 
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  Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [X]  National Notification Authority, 
[X] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other 
body:  
Central Adm inistration for Foreign Agricultural Relations  
Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation  
Nadi El Saïd St., Dokki, Cairo, Egypt  
Tel: +(202) 333 76 589  
 +(202) 374 90 805  
Fax: +(202) 374 90 805  
E-mail: enq_egy_sps@yahoo.com  
Text(s) available from: [X]  National Notification Authority, [X] National Enquiry Point. 
Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other body:  
Central Administration for Foreign Agricultural Relations  
Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation  
Nadi El Saïd St., Dokki, Cairo, Egypt  
Tel: +(202) 333 76 589  
 +(202) 374 90 805  
Fax: +(202) 374 90 805  
E-mail: enq_egy_sps@yahoo.com  
 
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