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Proposed measure: Spain

Draft Royal Decree amending and repealing various provisions regarding food

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Proyecto de Real Decreto por el que se modifican y derogan diferentes disposiciones en materia alimentaria

Spain notified this proposed TBT measure to the WTO on 13 October 2025. The comment period closed on 12 December 2025.

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At a glance

Products

Margarine and other mixtures or food preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils, or of food fractions of different fats or oils (excl. fats and oils and their fractions, partially or wholly hydrogenated, inter-esterified, re-esterified or elaidinized, incl

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Margarina y otras mezclas o preparaciones alimenticias de materias grasas o aceites, animales o vegetales, o de fracciones alimenticias de diferentes grasas o aceites (exc. grasas y aceites y sus fracciones, parcial o totalmente hidrogenados, interesterificados, reesterificados o elaidinizados, incl

HS codes
  • 15 · Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes
    • 1517 Margarine, other edible mixtures or preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils and edible fractions of different fats or oils (excl. fats, oils and…
  • 16 · Meat, fish, crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or insects; preparations thereof
    • 1601 Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal, blood or insects; food preparations based on these products.
    • 1602 Prepared or preserved meat, meat offal, blood or insects (excl. sausages and similar products, and meat extracts and juices)
  • 20 · Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants
    • 200570 Olives, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid (excl. frozen)
  • 22 · Beverages, spirits and vinegar
    • 2202 Waters, incl. mineral waters and aerated waters, containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured, and other non-alcoholic beverages (excl…
    • 2206 Other fermented beverages (for example, cider, perry, mead, saké); mixtures of fermented beverages and mixtures of fermented beverages and non-alcoholic…
    • 2209 Vinegar and substitutes for vinegar obtained from acetic acid.
Notifying member
Spain
Status
Proposed measure, may since have been adoptedNotified as a draft on 13 October 2025. Check WTO ePing or Spain for its current status.
Objectives
  • Quality requirements
  • Other
Area
TBT: Technical product rulesTechnical barriers to trade
Notification type
Regular notification
Document symbol
G/TBT/N/ESP/54
Keywords
Food standards

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Closed on 12 December 2025
Proposed adoption
Primer trimestre de 2026
Proposed entry into force
Entrará en vigor al día siguiente de su adopción

How to comment

The comment period closed on 12 December 2025. You can still raise concerns about the measure with your country's WTO TBT enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/TBT/N/ESP/54; it can take them up with Spain.

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What the notification says

The purpose of this draft is to amend various quality standards and Technical-Sanitary regulations for food products in order to update their content and repeal those provisions that are no longer applicable due to the existence of new regulations.

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Este proyecto tiene por objeto modificar diversas normas de calidad y reglamentaciones Técnico-Sanitarias de productos alimentarios con el fin de actualizar su contenido y derogar aquellas disposiciones que ya no se aplican por existir nueva normativa.

Sources

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

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