Skip to content
Expodite

WTO notification · SPS

IsraelProposed measure, open for comments

Food additives – Israel

Official title

Public Health Protection Notice (Food) (Application of Changes to the Annex to European Union Directives) (Regulation 231/2012 - Specifications of Food Additives Listed in Annexes II and III to Regulation No. 1333/2008), 5786-2026

Israel notified a revised version of this proposed SPS measure on 5 October 2026. The measure was first notified on 8 June 2026. Comments are open until 4 December 2026.

Get alerts for this product and marketCheck what this means for your products

Expodite puts notifications like this one in your Updates centre, matched to the HS codes of your products and the markets you export to. Opens the requirements check for Israel in your Expodite account.

Source: WTO ePing (opens in a new tab). Summaries by Expodite, which is independent of the WTO.

Published here:

Updated here:

At a glance

Products

Food additives

Notifying member
Israel
Status
Proposed measure, open for comments
Objectives
  • Food safety
Area
SPS: Food safety, animal and plant healthSanitary and phytosanitary measures
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/SPS/N/ISR/13Latest notice: G/SPS/N/ISR/13/Rev.1
ICS classification
  • 67.220.20 Food additives
Keywords
Food safety, Human health

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Open until 4 December 2026
Proposed adoption
To be determined.
Proposed entry into force
1(a) and 2(a) - 20 May 2025; a(b), 2(b) and 3 - 1 November 2025; 25 August 2025; 27 December 2025; 1 July 2026; 18 October 2026; 18 October 2026

How to comment

Comments on a notification go from government to government. If this measure affects your exports, send your comments to your country's WTO SPS enquiry point before 4 December 2026, quoting the document symbol G/SPS/N/ISR/13/Rev.1 and how the measure affects your products. Your enquiry point forwards them to Israel.

Find your country's enquiry point on WTO ePing (opens in a new tab)

What the notification says

Commission Regulation (EU) No. 231/2012 of 9 March 2012 determines specifications for food additives listed in Annexes II and III to Regulation No. 1333/2008 of the European Commission and of the Council (hereinafter - Regulation 231/2012) was adopted in Israel as part of Amendment No. 10 to the Public Health Protection (Food) Law, 5776-2015 (hereinafter - the Law/Food Law), and appears in Item 9 of Appendix II A to the Law. Regulation 231/2012 was fully implemented, with the expansion listed in Column C of Item 9 of Appendix II A to the Law, in addition to the exceptions as stated in Section 3A(a1) to (a5) of the Law. To date, notices have been published in the Official Gazette (Reshumot) that included changes that took place in the European Union in Regulation 231/2012, and were applied in Israel (updates), with the most recent being published on 21 April 2026, being the Public Health Protection Notice (Food) (Application of Changes to the Annex to the European Union Directives) (Regulation 231/2012 - Specifications of Food Additives Listed in Annexes II and III to Regulation No. 1333/2008) (No. 2)(Amendment), 5786-2026, signed by the Director of the National Food Service in the Ministry of Health, as she was then described. The latest updated consolidated version, adopted and published on the Food Service website after the publication of the aforementioned notice, is the version valid in European legislation as it stood on 27 October 2025. It is now proposed to apply in…

Notices on this measure

Every notice about this measure published here, newest first. Each one is the notifying member's own text.

  1. RevisionG/SPS/N/ISR/13/Rev.1

    Comment deadline: Open until 4 December 2026

    Public Health Protection Notice (Food) (Application of Changes to the Annex to European Union Directives) (Regulation 231/2012 - Specifications of Food Additives Listed in Annexes II and III to Regulation No. 1333/2008), 5786-2026

    Commission Regulation (EU) No. 231/2012 of 9 March 2012 determines specifications for food additives listed in Annexes II and III to Regulation No. 1333/2008 of the European Commission and of the Council (hereinafter - Regulation 231/2012) was adopted in Israel as part of Amendment No. 10 to the Public Health Protection (Food) Law, 5776-2015 (hereinafter - the Law/Food Law), and appears in Item 9 of Appendix II A to the Law. Regulation 231/2012 was fully implemented, with the expansion listed in Column C of Item 9 of Appendix II A to the Law, in addition to the exceptions as stated in Section 3A(a1) to (a5) of the Law. To date, notices have been published in the Official Gazette (Reshumot) that included changes that took place in the European Union in Regulation 231/2012, and were applied in Israel (updates), with the most recent being published on 21 April 2026, being the Public Health Protection Notice (Food) (Application of Changes to the Annex to the European Union Directives) (Regulation 231/2012 - Specifications of Food Additives Listed in Annexes II and III to Regulation No. 1333/2008) (No. 2)(Amendment), 5786-2026, signed by the Director of the National Food Service in the Ministry of Health, as she was then described. The latest updated consolidated version, adopted and published on the Food Service website after the publication of the aforementioned notice, is the version valid in European legislation as it stood on 27 October 2025. It is now proposed to apply in…

    Open on WTO ePing (opens in a new tab)Official WTO document (opens in a new tab)Notified document (English) (opens in a new tab)

  2. Regular notificationG/SPS/N/ISR/13

    Comment deadline: Closed on 7 August 2026

    Public Health Protection Notice (Food) (Application of Changes to the Annex to European Union Directives) (Regulation 231/2012 - Specifications of Food Additives Listed in Annexes II and III to Regulation No. 1333/2008) (No. 2), 5785-2025

    Commission Regulation (EU) No. 231/2012 of 9 March 2012 determines specifications for food additives listed in Annexes II and III to Regulation No. 1333/2008 of the European Commission and of the Council (hereinafter - Regulation 231/2012) was adopted in Israel as part of Amendment No. 10 to the Public Health Protection (Food) Law, 5776-2015 (hereinafter - the Law/Food Law), and appears in Item 9 of Appendix II A to the Law. Regulation 231/2012 was fully implemented, with the expansion listed in Column C of Item 9 of Appendix II A to the Law, in addition to the exceptions as stated in Section 3A(a1) to (a5) of the Law. To date, notices have been published in the Official Gazette (Reshumot) that included changes that took place in the European Union in Regulation 231/2012, and were applied in Israel (updates), with the most recent being published on 17 August 2025, being the Public Health Protection Notice (Food) (Application of Changes to the Annex to the European Union Directives) (Regulation 231/2012 - Specifications of Food Additives Listed in Annexes II and III to Regulation No. 1333/2008) (No. 2), 5785-2025, signed by the Director of the National Food Service in the Ministry of Health, as she was then described. The latest updated consolidated version, adopted and published on the Food Service website after the publication of the aforementioned notice, is the version valid in European legislation as it stood on 27 April 2025. It is now proposed to apply in Israel the…

    Open on WTO ePing (opens in a new tab)Official WTO document (opens in a new tab)Notified document (opens in a new tab)

Sources

Expodite writes its summary from the official record. The notification and the documents it notifies are on the WTO's own websites.

All updates from Israel

  1. WTO notificationTBTUpdated: check whether it is now adopted or in force

    SI 900 part 2.23 - Household and similar electrical appliances - Safety: Particular requirements for appliances for skin and hair care

    First amendment to the Mandatory Standard 900 part 2.23, dealing with electric appliances for skin and hair care. This draft amendment adopts AMD1:2019-03 of the International Standard IEC 60335-2-23:2016, with the following changes that appear in the standard's Hebrew section: Changes the…

    Symbol: G/TBT/N/ISR/1285/Add.1Comment period closed

  2. WTO notificationTBTUpdated: check whether it is now adopted or in force

    SI 900 part 2.17 - Household and similar electrical appliances - Safety: Particular requirements for blankets, pads, clothing and similar flexible heating appliances

    First amendment to the Mandatory Standard SI 900 part 2.17. This amendment changes the following: Adopts Amendment 2 of 2019-03 to the International Standard IEC 60335-2-17:2012; Deletes the national section 203 dealing with 'Noise requirements'.

    Symbol: G/TBT/N/ISR/1284/Add.1Comment period closed

  3. WTO notificationTBTProposed measure, open for comments

    SI 637 Part 3 - Gas cylinders valves: Outlet connections

    Second Amendment to the Mandatory Standard SI 637 Part 3, dealing with Outlet connections for gas cylinders. This proposed amendment changes a few lines in Table 1 of Section 4, dealing with the application of the output thread. Both the old standard and the new proposed standard will apply from…

    Symbol: G/TBT/N/ISR/1414Comments until 25 December 2026

  4. WTO notificationSPSProposed measure, open for comments

    Public Health Protection Notice (Food) (Application of Changes to the Annex to European Union Directives) (Regulation 1333/2008 - Food Additives), 5786-2026

    Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 regarding food additives was adopted in Israel as part of Amendment No. 10 to the Public Health Protection (Food) Law, 5776-2015 (hereinafter - the Law/Food Law), and appears in Item 8 of…

    Symbol: G/SPS/N/ISR/14/Rev.2Comments until 4 December 2026

All export regulation updates

Get these automatically for your products and markets.

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.

Start freeSee export intelligence