G/TBT/N/EGY/415  
15 February 2024  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  EGYPT  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality  
16 Tadreeb El -Modarrebeen St., Ameriya, Cairo – Egypt  
E-mail: eos@idsc.net.eg  / eos.tbt@eos.org.eg  
Website: http://www.eos.org.eg  
Tel.: + (202) 22845528  
Fax: + (202) 22845504  
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:   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [  ], 5.7.1 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Other 
agricultural machines and equipment (ICS code(s): 65.060.99)  
5. Title, number of pages and l anguage(s) of the notified document:  Ministerial 
Decree No. 499 /2023 (4 pages, in Arabic) mandating the Egyptian Standard ES 7294 for 
" Household and similar electrical appliances – safety - Particular requirements for 
electrical animal stunning equipment  ".; (89 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  The Ministerial Decree No. 499 /2023 gives producers and 
importers a six -month transitional period to abide by the Egyptian standard ES 7294 
which deals with the safety of electric animal -stunning e quipment the rated voltage of 
which is not more than 250 V for single -phase appliances and 480 V for other appliances. 
Battery -operated appliances and other D.C supplied appliances are within the scope of 
this standard. Dual supply appliances, either mains -supplied or battery -operated, are 
regarded as battery -operated appliances when operated in the battery mode. This 
standard is applicable to electric animal -stunning equipment for industrial or commercial 
use, for use on farms or for use in areas where the y may be a source of danger to the 
public. So far as is practical, this standard deals with the common hazards presented by 
these types of appliances. Examples of electric animal -stunning equipment within the 
scope of this standard are those used to stun:  
- Bovines such as cattle, calves, cows, heifers and bulls;  
- Ovines such as sheep and lambs;  
- Caprines such as goats;  
- Cervids such as deer;  G/TBT/N/EGY/415  
 
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  - Solipeds such as horses, donkeys and mules;  
- Birds such as chickens, turkeys and guinea fowl;  
- Porcines such as pigs;  
- Fur animals such as foxes, chinchilla, rabbits and possums;  
- Mustelids such as mink and polecats and other ruminants such as camels. The following 
types of electric animal -stunning equipment are covered by this standard: manual, semi -
automatic and automatic.  
Worth mentioning is that this standard adopts the technical content of IEC 60335 -2-
87:2016+AMD1:2018 CSV  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Safety requirements; Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
• Ministerial Decree No. 499 /2023  
• IEC 60335 -2-87:2016+AMD1:2018 CSV  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  18 December 2023  
Proposed date of entry into force:  5 January 2024  
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:   
Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality  
Address: 16 Tadreeb El -Modarrebeen St., Ameriya, Cairo - Egypt  
E-mail: eos@idsc.net.eg  / eos.tbt@eos.org.eg  
Website: http://www.eos.org.eg  
Tel: + (20 2) 22845528  
Fax: + (202) 22845504