Preventing International Trade Barriers | TBT

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure".

In your business, you would certainly anticipate problems in order to avoid them. The same goes for regulatory barriers: if you export a product, you probably prefer to be alerted early about new technical requirements applying to that product. In the EU, the internal market ensures that products move freely. But what if you are exporting outside the EU, in third countries?

The WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade is here to help you.

It helps EU economic operators to get acquainted with rules applying to products in third countries (see section "being informed");
It allows unnecessary technical obstacles to international trade to be detected and removed at source, often with your contribution (see section "being heard").

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10 most recent EU notifications

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European Union - 21/05/2025

Draft Commission Implementing Regulation amending Commission Regulation: (EU) No 321/2013 concerning the technical specification for interoperability relating to the ‘rolling stock — freight wagons’ subsystem of the rail system in the European Union (‘WAG TSI’)

European Union - 21/05/2025

Draft Commission Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the use in cosmetic products of certain substances classified as carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic for reproduction

European Union - 20/05/2025

Draft Commission Implementing Decision repealing Implementing Decision (EU) 2024/2930 postponing the expiry date of the approval of dazomet for use in biocidal products of product-type 8 in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 528/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council

European Union - 20/05/2025

Draft Commission Implementing Regulation renewing the approval of dazomet as an active substance for use in biocidal products of product-type 8 in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 528/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council

European Union - 19/05/2025

Draft Commission Delegated Regulation supplementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2847 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to an exclusion from the application of that Regulation for certain products with digital elements falling within the scope of Regulation 168/2013 of the Europea...

European Union - 25/04/2025

Draft Commission Delegated Regulation amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 44/2014 as regards laying down technical requirements and testing procedures regarding the protection of L-category vehicles against cyberattacks

European Union - 24/04/2025

Draft Commission Implementing Regulation laying down rules, procedures and testing methodologies for the application of Regulation (EU) 2024/1257 as regards exhaust and evaporative emission type-approval of vehicles of categories M1 and N1

European Union - 24/04/2025

Draft Commission Implementing Regulation laying down specific methods, requirements and tests including compliance thresholds, for the type-approval of OBFCM devices and OBM systems, characteristics and performance of driver warning systems and inducement methods and methods to assess their opera...

European Union - 15/04/2025

Draft Commission Regulation correcting Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/1670 laying down ecodesign requirements for smartphones, mobile phones other than smartphones, cordless phones and slate tablets pursuant to Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council

European Union - 11/04/2025

Draft Commission Implementing Regulation laying down rules for the application of Directive 2014/90/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards design, construction and performance requirements and testing standards for marine equipment and repealing Implementing Regulation (EU) ...

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EU TBT notifications;
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EU replies to comments from WTO Members on EU TBT notifications.

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TBT notifications from WTO Members to which the EU provided comments;
EU comments on TBT notifications from WTO Members; and
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