G/TBT/N/BDI/340 , G/TBT/N/KEN/1403  
G/TBT/N/RWA/847 , G/TBT/N/TZA/926  
G/TBT/N/UGA/1755  
9 March  2023 
(23-1754) 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, KENYA, 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 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):  Uncoated 
paper and paperboard, of a kind used for writing, printing or other graphic purposes, and 
non-perforated punch -cards and punch tape paper, in square or rectangular sheets with 
one side > 435 mm or with one side <= 435 mm and the other side > 297 mm in the 
unfolded state,, not containing fibres obtained by a mechanical or chemi -mechanical 
proces s or of which <= 10% by weight of the total fibre content consists of such fibres, 
and weighing 40 g to 150 g/m², n.e.s. (HS code(s): 480257); Paper products in general 
(ICS code(s): 85.080.01)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified doc ument:  DEAS 863: 
2023, Paper and board — Cut-size paper — Specification, Second Edition; (10 page(s), in 
English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft East African Standard specifies the requirements, 
sampling and test methods for cut -size paper. This st andard does not apply to newsprint 
paper, manilla paper and photocopying paper.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Quality requirements; Harmonization; 
Reducing trade barriers and facilitating trade  G/TBT/N/BDI/340 • G/TBT/N/KEN/1403 • G/TBT/N/RWA/847 • G/TBT/N/TZA/926 • 
G/TBT/N/UGA/1755  
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  8. Relevant documents:   
1. ISO 186, Paper and board — Sampling to determine average quality  
2. ISO 187, Paper board and pulps — Standard atmosphere for conditioning and 
testing and procedure for monitoring the atmosphere and conditioning of samples  
3. ISO 216, Writing paper and certain classes of printed matter — Trimmed sizes — 
A and B series, and indication of machine direction  
4. ISO 287, Paper and board — Determination of moisture content of a lot — Oven-
drying me thod 
5. ISO 535, Paper and board — Determination of water absorptiveness — Cobb 
method  
6. ISO 536, Paper and board — Determination of grammage  
7. ISO 1924 -2, Paper and board — Determination of tensile properties — Part 2: 
Constant rate of elongation method (20 mm/m in) 
8. ISO 1974, Paper — Determination of tearing resistance — Elmendorf method  
9. ISO 2470, Paper, board and pulps — Measurement of diffuse reflectance factor — 
Part 2: Outdoor daylight conditions (D65 brightness)  
10. ISO 2471, Paper and board — Determination of op acity (paper backing) — Diffuse 
reflectance method  
11. ISO 21067, Packaging — Vocabulary  
12. KS 802 -1:1989, Specification for cut -size office papers - Part 1: General purpose 
paper (Second Edition)  
13. EAS 863:2017, Paper and board — Cut-size for general purposes — Specification  
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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