G/TBT/N/KAZ/23  
 
30 January 2019  
(19-0479) 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: KAZAKHSTAN   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible: Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan  
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:   
Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan  
Foreign Trade Development Department  
Tel: +7 7172 74 37 64, +7 7172 76 85 05.  
E-mail: wto.kaz.ntf@gmail.com  
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): Food 
additives, complex food additives, flavors, technological aids, food products in terms of 
the content of food additives in it, biologically active substances from flavors, residual 
quantities of technological aids.  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Draft 
amendments No. 2 to the Technical Regulation of the Customs Union "Safety 
Requirements for Food Additives, Flavors and Technological Aids " (TR CU 029/2012) 
(544 page(s), in Russian)   
6. Description of content: Draft amendments No. 2 to the Technical Regulation of the 
Customs Union "Safety Requirements for Food Additives, Flavors and Technological Aids " 
(TR CU 029/2012) (hereinafter - Draft Amendments No. 2, (TR CU 029/2012) ) applies to 
food additives, flavors and technological aids of the Eurasian Economic Union, as well as 
food products containing them, include changes to the definitions of the terms "food 
flavoring", "natural flavoring substance", "complex food additive", "carrier, "te chnological 
aid", "traditional methods of food production", "table sweetener", "contrast amplifier", 
provides for separate new terms, contains editorial changes and establishes additional 
requirements:  
• to the safety of food additives, flavors and technolog ical aids, as well as their use 
in the manufacture of food products;  
• to labeling, conformity assessment, production processes (manufacturing), 
storage, transportation (transportation), sale and disposal of food additives, 
flavors and technological aids;  
• to the list of food additives allowed for use in the manufacture of food products;  
• to the hygienic standards for the use of anti -caking agents, antioxidants, flour 
treatment agents, glazers, acids and acidity regulators, preservatives, dyes, 
carriers, sweeteners, propellants and packaging gases, flavor and aroma 
enhancers, brightening fi lter materials, flocculants and sorbents, catalysts, 
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  agents with other technological functions, food additives to food products for baby 
food and for infants;  
• to food prod ucts, the production of which the use of dyes is not allowed, and in 
the production of which certain dyes are allowed;  
• to the list of flavoring chemicals permitted for use in the production of food 
flavors; to permissible levels of biologically active subs tances in food products 
through the use of plant materials and flavors from plant materials;  
• to enzyme preparations permitted for use in the manufacture of food products.  
Draft amendment No. 2 has been prepared for:  protection of life and health of people and 
prevention of actions misleading consumers of food additives, flavors and technological 
aids; reducing the risk of falsification of food additives, flavors and technological aids, 
increasing the export potential of the producers of the Eurasian Economi c Union member 
states, excluding the possibility of a double interpretation of certain provisions of the 
TR CU 029/2012; harmonization of the requirements of the TR CU 029/2012 with the 
current requirements of the relevant international Codex Alimentarius standards and 
European Union directives, harmonization of the requirements of TR CU 029/2012 and 
Unified sanitary -epidemiological and hygienic requirements for goods subject to sanitary -
epidemiological supervision (control), approved by the Decision of the  Commission of the 
Customs Union of 28 May 2010 No. 299.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: Health, safety.  
8. Relevant documents:   
• Draft amendments No. 2 to the Technical Regulation of the Customs Union "Safety 
Requirements for Food Additives, Flavors and Technological Aids " 
(TR CU 029/2012)  
http://www.eurasiancommission.org/ru/act/texnreg/deptexreg/tr/Pages/project
sPublic.aspx  
• Technical Regulation of the Customs Union "Safety Requirements for Food 
Additives, Flavors and Technological Aids " (TR CU  029/2012)   
http://www.eurasiancommission.org/ru/act/texnreg/deptexreg/tr/Pages/bezopPi
shDobavok.aspx  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  Not less than 180 days from adoption of the technical 
regulation  
Proposed date of entry into force:  Not less than 180 days from adoptio n of the 
technical regulation  
10. Final date for comments: 60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [  ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:   
Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan  
Department for Foreign Trade Activity Development  
Tel: +7 7172 74 37 64, +7 7172 76 85 05.  
E-mail: wto.kaz.ntf@gmail.com  
Eurasian economic commission  
Department for Technical Regulation and Accreditation  
Tel.: +7(495)669 -24-00 
Fax: +7(495)669 -24-15 
E-mail: dept_techregulation@eurasiancommission.org  
Website: www.eurasiancommission.org