G/TBT/N/BDI/177  
G/TBT/N/RWA/568  
G/TBT/N/TZA/665  
G/TBT/N/UGA/1499  
 
22 November 2021  
(21-8791) 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:  BURUNDI, RWANDA, TANZANIA, UGANDA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Uganda National Bureau of Standards  
Plot 2 -12 ByPass Link, Bweyogerere Industrial and Business Park  
P.O. Box 6329  
Kampala, Uganda  
Tel: +(256) 4 1733 3250/1/2  
Fax: +(256) 4 1428 6123  
E-mail: info@unbs.go. ug 
Website: https://www.unbs.go.ug  
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 shal l be indicated if different from above:   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [X], 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):  Duvets, 
Quilts, Comforters; (HS: 630210 ); Textile fabrics (ICS 59.080.30)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DEAS 
1071:2021, Duvet — Specification, First Edition (16 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft East African Standard specifies requirements, 
sampling and test methods for duvets  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Prevention of decep tive practices and 
consumer protection; Protection of human health or safety; Quality requirements; 
Harmonization  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. ISO 105 -B01, Textiles — Tests for colour fastness — Part B01: Colour fastness 
to light: Daylight  
2. ISO 105 -B02, Colour fastness to artificial light: Xenon arc fading lamp test  
3. ISO 105 -C10,Colour fastness to washing with soap or soap and soda  
4. ISO 105 -D01,Colour fastness to dry cleaning using perchloroethylene solvent  
5. ISO 105 -E04, Tests for colour fastnes s -- Part E04: Colour fastness to 
perspiration  G/TBT/N/BDI/177, G/TBT/N/RWA/568, G/TBT/N/TZA/665, G/TBT/N/UGA/1499  
 
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  6. ISO 105 -X12, Colour fastness to rubbing  
7. ISO 1833 (all parts),  Textiles — Quantitative chemical analysis  
8. ISO 3175 -1, Textiles — Professional care, drycleaning and wetcleaning of fabrics 
and garments — Part 1: A ssessment of performance after cleaning and finishing  
9. ISO 3758, Care labelling code using symbols  
10. ISO 3759, Textiles — Preparation, marking and measuring of fabric specimens 
and garments in tests for determination of dimensional change  
11. ISO 5077, Textiles — Determination of dimensional change in washing and 
drying  
12. ISO 6330, Domestic washing and drying procedures for textile testing  
13. ISO 9237, Textiles — Determination of the permeability of fabrics to air  
14. ISO 12945 -2, Determination of fabric propensity to surface fuzzing and to pilling 
-- Part 2: Modified Martindale method  
15. ISO 13934 -1, Determination of maximum force and elongation at maximum 
force using the strip method  
16. ISO 13938 -2, Pneumatic method for determination of bursting strength and 
bursting distension  
17. ISO 14362 -1, Textiles — Methods for determination of certain aromatic amines 
derived from azo colorants — Part 1: Detection of the use of certain azo 
colorants accessible with and without extracting the fibres  
18. ISO 14362 -3, Textiles — Methods for determination of certain aromatic amines 
derived from azo colorants — Part 3: Detection of the use of certain azo 
colorants, which may release 4 -aminoazobenzene  
19. ISO 16373 -1, Textiles — Dyestuffs — Part 1: General principles of testing 
coloured tex tiles for dyestuff identification  
20. ISO 16373 -2, Textiles — Dyestuffs — Part 2: General method for the 
determination of extractable dyestuffs including allergenic and carcinogenic 
dyestuffs (method using pyridine -water)  
21. ISO 16373 -3, Textiles — Dyestuffs — Part 3: Method for determination of 
certain carcinogenic dyestuffs (method using triethylamine/methanol)  
22. ISO 22198 , Textiles — Fabrics — Determination of width and length  
23. ISO 24153, Random sampling and randomization procedures  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
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:   
Uganda National Bureau of Standards  
Plot 2 -12 ByPass Link, Bweyogerere Industrial and Business Park  
P.O. Box 6329  
Kampala, Uganda  
Tel: +(256) 4 1733 3250/1 /2 
Fax: +(256) 4 1428 6123  
E-mail: info@unbs.go.ug  
Website: https://www.unbs.go.ug  
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