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Draft Decree relating to the quality and sanitary safety of marketed edible vegetable fats and oils (Projet de décret relatif à la qualité et à la sécurité sanitaire des graisses et huiles végétales comestibles commercialisées)
Projet de décret relatif à la qualité et à la sécurité sanitaire des graisses et huiles végétales comestibles commercialisées (Draft Decree on the quality and safety of marketed edible vegetable fats and oils)
Morocco issued an addendum on 12 December 2025 to the earlier SPS notification G/SPS/N/MAR/108. Addenda often report that a measure was adopted, changed, postponed or withdrawn. The measure was first notified on 19 September 2024. The comment period closed on 18 November 2024.
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Marketed edible vegetable fats and oils
The comment period closed on 18 November 2024. You can still raise concerns about the measure with your country's WTO SPS enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/SPS/N/MAR/108/Add.1; it can take them up with Morocco.
Find your country's enquiry point on WTO ePing (opens in a new tab)Latest notice (G/SPS/N/MAR/108/Add.1, 12 December 2025)
Draft Decree on the quality and safety of marketed edible vegetable fats and oilsAdoption of the Decree on the quality and safety of marketed edible vegetable fats and oils.
Draft Decree on the quality and safety of marketed edible vegetable fats and oilsAdoption of the Decree on the quality and safety of marketed edible vegetable fats and oils.
The provisions of the notified Decree, drafted to implement Law No. 28-07 on food safety, seek primarily to: • Define marketed edible vegetable fats and oils; • Establish the names under which such fats and oils can be marketed; • Establish physico-chemical characteristics by Ministerial Order; • Define lawful and unlawful operations involving vegetable fats and oils; • Remove the provision on the nominal volumes in which oils can be presented to the buyer in retail trade; and • Define modalities for the labelling and presentation for sale of edible vegetable fats and oils. The notified draft Decree provides for the repeal of the provisions on vegetable fats and oils set out in the above-mentioned Order of 22 November 1921, in particular those of Articles 5, 6, 7, 8 and 8 bis, and the repeal of Decree No. 2-62-217 of 3 Hija 1381 (8 May 1962) governing the manufacture of edible oils.
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AddendumG/SPS/N/MAR/108/Add.1
Draft Decree on the quality and safety of marketed edible vegetable fats and oilsAdoption of the Decree on the quality and safety of marketed edible vegetable fats and oils.
Draft Decree on the quality and safety of marketed edible vegetable fats and oilsAdoption of the Decree on the quality and safety of marketed edible vegetable fats and oils.
Regular notificationG/SPS/N/MAR/108
Comment deadline: Closed on 18 November 2024
Draft Decree relating to the quality and sanitary safety of marketed edible vegetable fats and oils (Projet de décret relatif à la qualité et à la sécurité sanitaire des graisses et huiles végétales comestibles commercialisées)
Projet de décret relatif à la qualité et à la sécurité sanitaire des graisses et huiles végétales comestibles commercialisées (Draft Decree on the quality and safety of marketed edible vegetable fats and oils)
The provisions of the notified Decree, drafted to implement Law No. 28-07 on food safety, seek primarily to: • Define marketed edible vegetable fats and oils; • Establish the names under which such fats and oils can be marketed; • Establish physico-chemical characteristics by Ministerial Order; • Define lawful and unlawful operations involving vegetable fats and oils; • Remove the provision on the nominal volumes in which oils can be presented to the buyer in retail trade; and • Define modalities for the labelling and presentation for sale of edible vegetable fats and oils. The notified draft Decree provides for the repeal of the provisions on vegetable fats and oils set out in the above-mentioned Order of 22 November 1921, in particular those of Articles 5, 6, 7, 8 and 8 bis, and the repeal of Decree No. 2-62-217 of 3 Hija 1381 (8 May 1962) governing the manufacture of edible oils.
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