WTO notification · TBT
EgyptProposed measure, may since have been adopted
Official title
The draft of the Egyptian standard ES 780-2 for' gas cylinders-refillable seamless steel gas cylinders-design, construction and testing part 2: quenched and tempered steel cylinders with tensile strength greater than or equal to 1100 MPa '.
Egypt notified this proposed TBT measure to the WTO on 27 April 2026. The comment period closed on 26 June 2026.
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Gas cylinders
The comment period closed on 26 June 2026. You can still raise concerns about the measure with your country's WTO TBT enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/TBT/N/EGY/574; it can take them up with Egypt.
Find your country's enquiry point on WTO ePing (opens in a new tab)The draft of the Egyptian standard specifies minimum requirements for the material, design, construction and workmanship, manufacturing processes, examination and testing at time of manufacture for refillable seamless steel gas cylinders and tubes with water capacities up to and including 450 l. it is applicable to cylinders and tubes for compressed, liquefied and dissolved gases and for quenched and tempered steel cylinders and tubes with an actual tensile strength Rma ≥ 1 100 MPa. Worth mentioning is that this draft standard is technically identical with ISO 9809-2/2019.
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