Skip to content

WTO notification · TBT

Burundi,Kenya,Rwanda,Tanzania,UgandaAdopted, according to its latest notice

Fish and crustaceans – Burundi +4

Official title

DEAS 1202: 2024, Handling, processing and distribution of fish — Code of practice — Retail, First Edition Note: This Draft East African Standard was also notified under SPS committee

Uganda issued an addendum on 18 September 2026 to the earlier TBT notification G/TBT/N/UGA/2011. Addenda often report that a measure was adopted, changed, postponed or withdrawn. The measure was first notified on 23 September 2024. The comment period closed on 22 November 2024.

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 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

Fish, fresh or chilled (excl. fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304); Frozen fish (excl. fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304); Fish fillets and other fish meat, whether or not minced, fresh, chilled or frozen; Fish, fit

HS codes
  • 03 · Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates
    • 0302 Fish, fresh or chilled (excl. fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304)
    • 0303 Frozen fish (excl. fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304)
    • 0304 Fish fillets and other fish meat, whether or not minced, fresh, chilled or frozen
    • 0305 Fish, fit for human consumption, dried, salted or in brine; smoked fish, fit for human consumption, whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process
Notifying members
Status
Adopted, according to its latest notice
Objectives
  • Protection of human health or safety
  • Protection of animal or plant life or health
  • Protection of the environment
  • Quality requirements
  • Harmonization
  • Reducing trade barriers and facilitating trade
  • Cost saving and productivity enhancement
Area
TBT: Technical product rulesTechnical barriers to trade
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/TBT/N/BDI/508Latest notice: G/TBT/N/UGA/2011/Add.2
Keywords
Food standards

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Closed on 22 November 2024
Proposed adoption
To be determined
Proposed entry into force
To be determined

What the notification says

Latest notice (⁨G/TBT/N/UGA/2011/Add.2⁩, 18 September 2026)

The latest notice says the measure was adopted or published.

DEAS 1202:2024, Handling, processing and distribution of fish — Code of practice — Retail, First Edition

The aim of this addendum is to update WTO Members that the Draft East African Standard, DEAS 1202:2024, Handling, processing and distribution of fish — Code of practice — Retail, First Edition; notified in G/TBT/N/BDI/508, G/TBT/N/KEN/1675, G/TBT/N/RWA/1057, G/TBT/N/TZA/1174, G/TBT/N/UGA/2011, G/TBT/N/BDI/508/Add.1, G/TBT/N/KEN/1675/Add.1, G/TBT/N/RWA/1057/Add.1, G/TBT/N/TZA/1174/Add.1 and G/TBT/N/UGA/2011/Add.1 was adopted by Uganda on 16 December 2025 as a Uganda Standard, US EAS 1202:2025, Handling, processing and distribution of fish — Code of practice — Retail, First Edition. The Standard can be purchased online through the link:

This Draft East African Standard provides guidelines for handling, processing and distribution in retailing of fish and fish products intended for human consumption.

Notices on this measure

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

  1. AddendumG/TBT/N/UGA/2011/Add.2

    Uganda, Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania

    DEAS 1202:2024, Handling, processing and distribution of fish — Code of practice — Retail, First Edition

    The aim of this addendum is to update WTO Members that the Draft East African Standard, DEAS 1202:2024, Handling, processing and distribution of fish — Code of practice — Retail, First Edition; notified in G/TBT/N/BDI/508, G/TBT/N/KEN/1675, G/TBT/N/RWA/1057, G/TBT/N/TZA/1174, G/TBT/N/UGA/2011, G/TBT/N/BDI/508/Add.1, G/TBT/N/KEN/1675/Add.1, G/TBT/N/RWA/1057/Add.1, G/TBT/N/TZA/1174/Add.1 and G/TBT/N/UGA/2011/Add.1 was adopted by Uganda on 16 December 2025 as a Uganda Standard, US EAS 1202:2025, Handling, processing and distribution of fish — Code of practice — Retail, First Edition. The Standard can be purchased online through the link:

  2. AddendumG/TBT/N/TZA/1174/Add.1

    Tanzania, Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda

    DEAS 1202: 2024, Handling, processing and distribution of fish — Code of practice — Retail, First Edition

    Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda would like to inform WTO Members that the Draft East African Standard; DEAS 1202: 2024, Handling, processing and distribution of fish — Code of practice — Retail, First Edition, notified in G/TBT/N/BDI/508, G/TBT/N/KEN/1675, G/TBT/N/RWA/1057, G/TBT/N/TZA/1174, G/TBT/N/UGA/2011 was adopted by the East African Community Council of Ministers on 2nd July 2025 as EAS 1202: 2024, Handling, processing and distribution of fish — Code of practice — Retail, First Edition. Note: This Draft East African Standard was also notified under SPS committee

  3. Regular notificationG/TBT/N/TZA/1174

    Tanzania, Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, UgandaComment deadline: Closed on 22 November 2024

    DEAS 1202: 2024, Handling, processing and distribution of fish — Code of practice — Retail, First Edition Note: This Draft East African Standard was also notified under SPS committee

    This Draft East African Standard provides guidelines for handling, processing and distribution in retailing of fish and fish products intended for human consumption.

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 Burundi
  1. WTO notificationKenyaTBTProposed measure, open for comments

    DKS 319:2026 Sugar confectionery – Other sugar confectioneries – Specification

    This Kenya Standard specifies requirements, sampling and test methods for sugar confectionery products intended for human consumption that are not covered by standards for chocolate, cocoa butter confectionery, chewing gum or other specific confectionery products.

    Symbol: G/TBT/N/KEN/2150Comments until 5 January 2027

  2. WTO notificationKenya,Rwanda,Tanzania+1TBTAdopted, according to its latest notice

    DEAS 44: 2025, Milled maize (corn) products — Specification, Sixth edition.

    This Draft East African Standard specifies requirements, sampling and test methods for whole maize meal, granulated maize meal, sifted maize meal, maize grits and maize flour from the grains of common maize (Zeamays L.) intended for human consumption. This standard does not apply to fortified…

    Symbol: G/TBT/N/BDI/619/Add.1Comment period closed

  3. WTO notificationKenya,Rwanda,Tanzania+1TBTAdopted, according to its latest notice

    DEAS 282: 2025, Wheat semolina — Specification, First edition.

    This Draft East African Standard specifies requirements, sampling and test methods for wheat semolina prepared from common wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) or club wheat (Triticum compacturm Host.) mixtures thereof, or to mixtures of these wheats in combination with durum wheat (Triticum durm Desf.)…

    Symbol: G/TBT/N/BDI/617/Add.1Comment period closed

  4. WTO notificationKenya,Rwanda,Tanzania+1TBTAdopted, according to its latest notice

    DEAS 1272:2025, Quinoa grains— Specification, First edition.

    This draft East Africa specifies the requirements, sampling and test methods for dried matured quinoa grain (Chenopodium quinoa) intended for human consumption. Note: This Draft East African Standard was also notified under SPS committee

    Symbol: G/TBT/N/BDI/616/Add.1Comment period closed

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.