Chemicals (industrial and household)

Russia, Issue 13 July 2016

13.07.2016

Clarification on manual load handling restrictions in Russia

Uzbekistan, Issue 11 July 2016

11.07.2016

Cosmetics, petrochemicals, food and fabrics are subject to customs expert assessment

As of 23 May 2019 importers of products listed by Decree No. 2787 of 17 May 2016 must organise customs expert assessment in order to be able to import these products into Uzbekistan. The list includes perfumery and cosmetics, dairy products, coffee, tea, alcoholic beverages, oil and petrochemicals, brake fluids. organic solvents, paints and varnishes, etc.

Russia: Extended Producer Responsibility for Manufacturers and Importers

22.05.2016

As of 28 September 2015 manufacturers and importers of certain products and packaging are formally required to either recycle wastes generated from the use of such products themselves or to sign a contract for recycling with a recycling operator.

Russia: environmental charges are set for product importers and manufacturers

27.04.2016

Decree No. 284 of 9 April 2016 sets the rates for product utilization (environmental) charges, within the concept of extended producer responsibility (introduced in 2015). The charges are set in roubles per one tonne, for each of the 36 relevant product groups.

When do the EEU Technical Regulations enter into force in Kyrgyzstan?

29.01.2016

The timeframe was set for Kyrgyzstan for the entry into force of EEU Technical Regulations. It was adopted by Decision No. 11 of 26 January 2016 of the Eurasian Economic Commission. The TRs will become mandatory in Kyrgyzstan on different dates, and the last one to become mandatory is the TR on automotive and aviation fuel which is to become fully mandatory on 12 August 2021.

The TRs are to be enforced in Kyrgyzstan in four “batches”.

Ukraine: Approved the form of the conformity mark and the marking procedure

26.01.2016

As of 10 February 2016, manufacturers and importers of products that are subject to Technical Regulations, must ensure that the conformity mark placed on such products is in compliance with the requirements pertaining to its form and size as well as the marking rules.

Russia: Collection targets are set for manufacturers and importers of certain products and packaging until 2017

20.12.2015

Manufacturers and importers of certain products (such as electrical equipment - EEE, textiles, glass and paper packaging, etc.) will have to comply with the set collection targets for 2015-2017. For all products the collection targets for 2015 and for most products, including WEEE for 2016, the collection targets have been set to “zero”.

Russia adopts safety requirements for Gaseous Tritium Light Source (GTLS)

06.05.2015

Organisations manufacturing or using GTLS and products containing GTLS in Russia must comply, as of 25 April 2015, with the adopted sanitary rules (SanPiN 2.6.1.3239-14).

Russia might impose a ban on heavy metals in de-icers

23.04.2015

The amendments prohibiting the use of de-icers containing heavy metals on pedestrian roads are to be introduced to the Law on Environmental Protection. Greenpeace proposes to take a more radical approach and to ban the use of heavy metals in all de-icing agents.

Classification of polymeric methylene diphenyl isocyanate

22.09.2014

The HS code (the FEACN or TN VED TS code) for polymeric methylene diphenyl isocyanate, also called " polymeric MDI" was set as 3909 30 000 0 "other amino-aldehyde resins", in accordance with Decision of the Eurasian Economic Commission No. 159 of 16 September 2014.