Products covered Meat, poultry and their products, milk and dairy products except for crude milk.

This addendum concerns the clarification of the following:

I.              HS Codes of the products that require halal certificates:

1-    Meat, poultry and their products:

HS headings : 0201- 0202- 0204 -  of HS heading 0206 (except of swine, horses, assess, mules or hinnies ) – 0207 -  of HS heading 0208 (except from  0208.30, 0208.40 ,0208.50) – HS subheading 0209.90-  of HS heading 0210( except of 0210.11, 0210.12, 0210.19, 0210.91, 0210.92, 0210.93 ) ,  - 1601- 1602( except 1602.41, 1602.42, 1602.49, preparations of blood of any animal of HS subheading 1602.90 ).

2-   Milk and dairy products:

 HS headings: 0401 - 0402    -0403     -0404   -0405    -0406.

II.          Halal certificate and labelling requirements for importing meat, poultry and their products, milk and dairy products:

-               The requirement for a Halal certificate as per ES 4249 to be accompanying imports of the stated products is among the requirements for acquiring an import permit from the General Organization for Veterinary Services (GOVS).

-                Import permits are stipulated by Decree No. 47 of 1967 issuing the veterinary quarantine regulation.

-               Slaughterhouses and factories/facilities of meat, poultry and their products are approved and registered at GOVS. Those slaughterhouses and factories/facilities must be certified and registered by a certification body approved by GOVS (currently IS EG halal).

-               The relevant authority shall on regular basis monitor the performance of the certification bodies that were approved to ensure their compliance with the regulations set by the competent authority.

1- Issuance of Halal certificates:

• Procedures applied by exporting slaughterhouses and factories/facilities of the stated products  to  Egypt:

-         Slaughterhouses and factories/facilities exporting to Egypt need to be certified and registered at IS EG Halal (the certification body currently approved by GOVS).

-         IS EG Halal offices supervise the registration process for the facilities exporting to Egypt, in addition to supervising the production process.

-          Slaughterhouses and factories/facilities can register through the IS EG Halal website (www.iseghalal.com) after filling up the application form and uploading the required documents necessary for registration. The registration process with IS EG HALAL is estimated to take from three to seven working days.

-         IS EG Halal reviews the uploaded documents. If the documents are complete, they are transferred to the technical and religious officials of the company to review and evaluate the documents, and then a date is set for the audit visit to the facility.

-         The audit visit is to ensure that the facility carries out its process according to Islamic Sharia (law) with respect to Halal, as well as to review all technical procedures applied by the slaughterhouses and the facilities /factories.

-         After completing the registration process, IS EG Halal Company sends a supervisor from the company to supervise the production process until shipping in order to ensure the conformity of the production process audit report with the shipments documents.

-         The certificates certifying the product as halal will be issued accordingly.

2-labelling requirements:

-         As for the labelling requirements with respect to halal, the label shall comprise the logo of IS EG Halal in addition to the phrase “under supervision of IS EG Halal “in Arabic and English. This label shall take the form of printing or a non-detachable sticker. The label will be on the outer package as well as the retail packages.

It is also worth mentioning that the draft new version of the Egyptian standard 4249 “General Requirements on Halal Food according to Islamic Sharia “ has been finalized and can be obtained from the Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality (EOS) for comments.

Agency or authority designated to handle comments and text available from:

National Enquiry Point

Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality

16 Tadreeb El-Modarrebeen St., Ameriya, Cairo – Egypt

 E-mail: eos@idsc.net.eg/eos.tbt@eos.org.eg

 Website: http://www.eos.org.eg

 Tel: + (202) 22845528

Fax: + (202) 22845504

Meat, Poultry and their Products, Milk and Dairy Products.