The WTO Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Agreement has a transparency obligation that requires WTO member countries to publish and notify the WTO, which in turn notifies its member countries, of any draft technical regulations at least 60 days in advance of adoption.
Please pay special attention to 15-3983, Table olives, South Africa, 2015/08/03
The notifications on all draft technical regulations for the week 17 to 23 August 2015 was not available at the time of print, it will be covered in next week’s column.