G/TBT/N/ISR/726  
 
3 December 2013  
(13-6597)  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:  ISRAEL  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  Israel WTO-TBT Enquiry Point 
Name and address (including telephon e 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 :   
Israel WTO-TBT Enquiry Point  
Ministry of Economy 
Tel.:  + (972) 3 7347502 Fax:  + (972) 3 7347626 E-mail:  Yael.Friedgut@economy.gov.il  
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):  Dangerous 
substances and mixtures; Protection against dangerous goods (ICS 13.300); Oils and 
other products of the distillation of high temperature coal tar; similar products in which the 
weight of the aromatic constituents exceeds that of the non-aromatic constituents. (HS 2707), Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, other than crude; 
preparations not elsewhere specified or included, containing by weight 70% or more of 
petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils. (HS 2710), Organic surface- Active agents (other than soap); surface- Active preparations, washing preparations (including auxiliary 
washing preparations) and cleaning preparations, whether or not containing soap, other 
than those of heading 34.01. (HS 3402), Polishes and creams, for footwear, furniture, floors, coachwork, glass or metal, scouring pastes and powders and similar preparations 
(whether or not in the form of paper, wadding, felt, nonwovens, cellular plastics or cellular 
rubber, impregnated, coated or covered with such preparations), excluding waxes of heading 34.04. (HS 3405), Prepared binders for foundry moulds or cores; chemical 
products and preparations of the chemical or allied industries (including those consisting of 
mixtures of natural products), not elsewhere specified or included. (HS 3824).  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Dangerous 
substances and mixtures: Classification, labelling, marking and packaging (44 pages, in 
Hebrew).     G/TBT/N/ISR/726 
 
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  6. Description of content:  Revision of the partially mandatory standard SI 2302 Part 1 
dealing with dangerous substances and mixtures. This draft standard revision is based, with a few changes and national deviations on the UN document " Globally Harmonized 
System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) ". This regulation is gradually 
replacing the 2 European directives which were the base for the standard's earlier edition (67/548/EEC and 1999/45/EC) an d that should be cancelled on 1 June 2015. The UN 
regulation's parts dealing with substances had already entered into force in Europe in 
2010 and the regulation's parts dealing with mixtures should enter into force in 2015. 
Among the major differences introduced in this new revised draft standard we wish to 
emphasise the replacement of the R-phrases (risk phrases) and S-phrases (safety 
phrases) in Hazard Statements (H) and in the precautionary statements (P). 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of human health or Safety  
8. Relevant documents:    
- Israel Mandatory Standard SI 2302 part 1 (February 2009); 
- UN Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals  (GHS). 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    To be determined Generally 60 days after publication in Israel 
Official Gazette, Section of Government 
Notices 
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification 
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [X], or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresse s, if available of the other body:   
http://www2.moital.gov.il/cmstamat/rsrc/tkina/SI2302Part1.pdf