Non-Tariff Barriers

NTM classification: A31: Labelling requirements
Date when the measure came into force: 24 January 2004
Publication where the measure is specified: Government Gazette No 25605, 24 October 2003
Regulation where the measure is specified: Regulations Relating To the Grading, Packing and Marking of Canned Vegetables Intended For Sale in the Republic of South Africa
Country/Region applying the measure: South Africa
Coded list of objectives: X: For purposes n.e.s.
Description of the measure: Additional marking requirements
37 (3) Subject to the provisions of regulation 9 -
(a) each container mixed vegetables containing mayonnaise or a similar ingredient shall be labelled "Vegetable Salad"; and
(b) every kind of vegetable of which the mass exceeds 5% of the drained mass of the container concerned, shall be indicated on the label in descending order in which it is used in the mixture on a mass-per-mass basis.
Reference of the measure: Regulation 37 (3)
Measure also domestic: Yes

Code	Product	Partial coverage	Partial coverage indication
2001	Vegetables, fruit, nuts and other edible parts of plants, prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid.	Yes	Unspecified canned vegetables
2002	Tomatoes prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid.	Yes	Unspecified canned vegetables
2003	Mushrooms and truffles, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid.	Yes	Unspecified canned vegetables
2004	Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, frozen, other than products of heading 20.06.	Yes	Unspecified canned vegetables
2005	Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen, other than products of heading 20.06.	Yes	Unspecified canned vegetables
2006	Vegetables, fruit, nuts, fruit-peel and other parts of plants, preserved by sugar (drained, glac	Yes	Unspecified canned vegetables

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