G/TBT/N/EGY/313/Add.3  
 
15 August 2022  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
 
NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication , dated  12 August 2022, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of Egypt . 
 
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Title:  Halal Certificate accompanying imports of meat, poultry and their products, milk and dairy 
products (except for crude milk).  
 
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Halal Certificate accompanying imports of meat, poultry and their products, milk and 
dairy products (except for crude milk).  
 
Description:  Products covered Meat, poultry and their products, milk and dairy products except 
for crude milk.  
This addendum concerns the clarification of the following:  
I. HS Codes of the products that require halal certificates:  
1- Meat, poultry and their products : 
HS headings : 0201 - 0202- 0204 - of HS heading 0206 (except of swine, horses, assess, mules or 
hinnies ) – 0207 - of HS heading 0208 (except from 0208.30, 0208.40 ,0208.50) – HS subheading 
0209.90 - of HS heading 0210( except of 0210.11, 0210.12, 0210.19, 0210.91, 0210.92, 0210.93 ) 
, - 1601- 1602( except 1602.41, 1602.42, 1602.49, preparations of blood of any animal of HS 
subheading 1602.90 ).  
 
1 This information can be provided by including a website address, a pdf attachment, or other 
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  2- Milk and dairy products:  
HS headings: 0401 - 0402 -0403 -0404 -0405 -0406.  
II. Halal certificate and labelling requirements for importing meat, poul try and their 
products, milk and dairy products:  
- The requirement for a Halal certificate as per ES 4249 to be accompanying imports of the stated 
products is among the requirements for acquiring an import permit from the General Organization 
for Veterinar y Services (GOVS).  
- Import permits are stipulated by Decree No. 47 of 1967 issuing the veterinary quarantine 
regulation.  
- Slaughterhouses and factories/facilities of meat, poultry and their products are approved and 
registered at GOVS. Those slaughterhou ses and factories/facilities must be certified and registered 
by a certification body approved by GOVS (currently IS EG halal).  
- The relevant authority shall on regular basis monitor the performance of the certification bodies 
that were approved to ensure  their compliance with the regulations set by the competent authority.  
1- Issuance of Halal certificates:  
• Procedures applied by exporting slaughterhouses and factories/facilities of the 
stated products to Egypt:  
- Slaughterhouses and factories/facilities exporting to Egypt need to be certified and registered at 
IS EG Halal (the certification body currently approved by GOVS).  
- IS EG Halal offices supervise the registration process for the facilities exporting to Egypt, in addition 
to supervising the production process.  
- Slaughterhouses and factories/facilities can register through the IS EG Halal website 
(www.iseghalal.com) after filling up the application form and uploading the required documents 
necessary for registration. The regist ration process with IS EG HALAL is estimated to take from three 
to seven working days.  
- IS EG Halal reviews the uploaded documents. If the documents are complete, they are transferred 
to the technical and religious officials of the company to review and e valuate the documents, and 
then a date is set for the audit visit to the facility.  
- The audit visit is to ensure that the facility carries out its process according to Islamic Sharia (law) 
with respect to Halal, as well as to review all technical procedur es applied by the slaughterhouses 
and the facilities /factories.  
- After completing the registration process, IS EG Halal Company sends a supervisor from the 
company to supervise the production process until shipping in order to ensure the conformity of th e 
production process audit report with the shipments documents.  
- The certificates certifying the product as halal will be issued accordingly.  
2-labelling requirements:  
- As for the labelling requirements with respect to halal, the label shall comprise the  logo of IS EG 
Halal in addition to the phrase "under supervision of IS EG Halal "in Arabic and English. This label 
shall take the form of printing or a non -detachable sticker. The label will be on the outer package as 
well as the retail packages.  
It is al so worth mentioning that the draft new version of the Egyptian standard 4249 "General 
Requirements on Halal Food according to Islamic Sharia " has been finalized and can be obtained 
from the Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality (EOS) for c omments.  G/TBT/N/EGY/313/Add.3  
 
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  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@idsc.net.eg /eos.tbt@eos.org.eg  
Website: http://www.eos.org.eg  
Tel: + (202) 22845528  
Fax: + (202) 22845504  
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