Export regulation updates
Updates about this market, newest first: its WTO notifications of draft SPS and TBT rules and any other update that names it. 12 published so far.
SPS measures and EU-wide technical rules that apply in France are notified to the WTO by the European Union: see European Union updates. National technical rules (TBT) are notified under France's own name and appear on this page.
Source: WTO ePing (opens in a new tab). Summaries by Expodite, which is independent of the WTO.
RSS feed12 updates
WTO notificationTBTProposed measure, open for commentsNew
This interministerial Order amends two Orders by setting a schedule for lowering the maximum permissible cadmium contents for certain fertilizing materials and growing media on the one hand, as well as for the maximum permissible cadmium inputs during the use of fertilizing materials on the other…
Symbol: G/TBT/N/FRA/246Comments until 8 January 2027
WTO notificationTBTProposed measure, not in force yetNew
France notified this proposed TBT measure to the WTO on 3 August 2026. The comment period closed on 2 October 2026.
Symbol: G/TBT/N/FRA/245Comment period closed
WTO notificationTBTProposed measure, not in force yetNew
France notified this proposed TBT measure to the WTO on 8 July 2026. The comment period closed on 6 September 2026.
Symbol: G/TBT/N/FRA/244Comment period closed
WTO notificationTBTProposed measure, not in force yetNew
France notified this proposed TBT measure to the WTO on 17 June 2026. The comment period closed on 16 August 2026.
No products listed by the notifying member
Symbol: G/TBT/N/FRA/243Comment period closed
WTO notificationTBTProposed measure, may since have been adoptedNew
France notified this proposed TBT measure to the WTO on 17 June 2026. The comment period closed on 16 August 2026.
Symbol: G/TBT/N/FRA/242Comment period closed
WTO notificationSPSAdopted, according to its latest noticeEmergencyNew
The notified Order suspends, for a period of one year, the entry and import into France, and the placing on the market in France, whether free of charge or in return for payment, of food supplements containing the plant Garcinia cambogia Desr. and all preparations made from part of this plant…
Symbol: G/SPS/N/FRA/21/Add.1
WTO notificationSPSEmergency measure, may already applyEmergencyNew
France notified this emergency SPS measure on 9 January 2026. Emergency measures can apply immediately.
Symbol: G/SPS/N/FRA/22
WTO notificationTBTProposed measure, may since have been adoptedNew
France notified this proposed TBT measure to the WTO on 22 December 2025. The comment period closed on 20 February 2026.
Symbol: G/TBT/N/FRA/241Comment period closed
WTO notificationTBTProposed measure, may since have been adoptedNew
The Decree sets rules for the labeling and control of fertilizing products and growing media. More specifically: - It defines the procedures for the control of the effectiveness and the absence of harmful effects of fertilizing products and growing media; - It adapts existing regulations relating…
Symbol: G/TBT/N/FRA/237Comment period closed
WTO notificationTBTProposed measure, may since have been adoptedNew
This Order: - Sets the values and assessment methods for the safety of fertilizing products and growing media regarding their composition: trace metal elements, organic trace compounds (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxins/furans), pathogens, inerts and undesirable…
Symbol: G/TBT/N/FRA/239Comment period closed
WTO notificationTBTProposed measure, may since have been adoptedNew
This Order (Arrêté) sets the values and assessment methods for the safety of fertilizing materials regarding the maximum allowable inputs: trace metal elements, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and polychlorinated biphenyls.
Symbol: G/TBT/N/FRA/240Comment period closed
WTO notificationTBTProposed measure, may since have been adoptedNew
This Decree establishes the safety and agronomic quality criteria that fertilizing materials and growing media placed on the market and used shall comply with. In particular, it defines: - Four categories of fertilizers (A1, A2, B1 and B2) according to their quality and use; - The professional…
Symbol: G/TBT/N/FRA/238Comment period closed
Every market that has notified a measure, with the number of notifications published here.
Food safety, animal and plant health
Rules that protect people, animals and plants from risks carried by food, feed, pests and diseases: maximum residue limits, additives and contaminants, quarantine and inspection, and the certificates that go with them.
Technical product rules
Technical regulations, standards and conformity assessment for products: specifications, labelling and marking, packaging, and the tests and certificates a product needs before it can be sold.
Expodite matches each notification to the markets you export to and the HS codes of your products, and puts the ones that concern you in your Updates centre, with the date comments close.