G/TBT/N/ISR/1182  
6 January 2021  
(21-0205) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  ISRAEL   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  Israel WTO-TBT Enquiry Point  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
Israel WTO -TBT Enquiry Point  
Ministry of Economy and Industry  
Tel: + (972) 3 7347501  
E-mail: Yael.Friedgut@economy.gov.il  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Industrial 
chemical substances; (ICS: 13.020, 71)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified docum ent: Industrial 
Chemicals Registering Law, 5781 -2020 (72 page(s), in Hebrew)  
6. Description of content:  Israel's Ministry of Environmental Protection promotes 
establishing a mechanism for registering industrial chemicals and publishes a 
memorandum of a la w titled "Industrial Chemicals Registering Law, 5781 -2020". The law 
establishes a new mechanism aiming to reduce harmful effects to humans and the 
environment from chemicals used as raw materials in the local industry. The law includes 
the following:  
• Establishes a Chemical Inventory Registry;  
• Provides guidelines for performing risk assessment on selected chemicals;  
• Provides guidelines for conducting risk management by setting rules restricting 
the use of chemicals and or exposure to them;  
• Sets the auth orities and power given to the registrar and to the Chemical 
Evaluation Advisory Committee;  
Israel has an extensive regulation relating to the practices, import, production, use, 
maintenance, and transportation of  chemical substances. However, the existing  
regulations are decentralized and  allocated among  various government ministries 
and usually does not include a systematic assessment of the chemicals and their effects 
on humans or their environmental impact. The new draft law sets a unified mechanism to 
register industrial chemicals, to be governed and regulated under one entity in 
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  Manufacturers and importers of significant quantities  of industrial chemicals (over 10 tons 
per year of  natural or artificial  chemical s used as a raw material in the industry) will be 
required to report to the new online Chemicals Registry at the Ministry of Environmental 
Protection. The information required is primary data and a full Safety Data Sheet (SDS). 
This information will be mad e public, subject to the restrictions required to protect 
intellectual property and trade secrets. Special attention will be made to reducing the 
bureaucratic burden and using relevant official databases.   
The obligations imposed on manufacturers and impor ters will apply to chemical 
substances found in a mixture intended for use as a raw material in the industry, but not 
to mixtures of chemicals found in the finished products. The chemical quantity required 
to be reported will be tested according to the act ual chemical quantity and not according 
to the total mixture.  
There are four conditions for exempting an industrial chemical from the requirement to 
be registered, as defined in the different parts of the Law's Second Annex:   
• Part 1: The chemical is regula ted by different legislation;  
• Part 2: A chemical substance with a known risk level;  
• Part 3: A chemical substance from a natural source;  
• Part 4: Polymers, except for free monomers in a weight concentration of 2 or 
more present from the mixture.  
The law is d ue to enter into force on 1 March 2023, and the establishment of the Chemical 
Inventory Registry should be completed and launched by 1 September 2024.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of human health or safety; Protection of the environment  
8. Relevant documents:   
• Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA);  
• Hazardous Materials Law, 5733 - 1993.  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  1 March 2023  
Proposed date of entry into force:  1 March 2023  
01/09/2024 - Establishment and launching of the Chemical Inventory Registry.  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
WTO-TBT Enquiry Point  
Yael.Friedgut@economy.gov.il   
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2021/TBT/ISR/21_0123_00_x.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2021/TBT/ISR/21_0123_01_x.pdf