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GCC-wide product regulations
Verified product regulation updates for GCC-wide: new technical regulations, amendments, conformity assessment and the laws behind them. Linked to official sources.
Regulation updates
- GCC approves standalone allergen-declaration technical regulation for prepackaged food10 Sep 2026
- GCC amends core prepackaged-food labelling regulation to allow electronic label codes10 Sep 2026
- GCC-wide recall: Flying Tiger drinking cups over lead, cadmium13 Aug 2026
- GCC adopts UN Globally Harmonized System for chemical classification — GSO 2654:20251 Aug 2026
- GSO approves Strategic Plan 2026–2030: expanding technical regulations to new product sectors30 Jul 2026
- GSO 60th Technical Council: 199 new Gulf standards and 7 technical regulations approved — April 202525 Jul 2026
Conformity assessment programme
- GCC & MENA: The Third-Party Certificate of Conformity Model (SGS, Intertek, Bureau Veritas, TÜV, Cotecna)15 Sep 2026
- GCC-wide: Gulf Technical Regulations, the G-Mark & the GSO Conformity Assessment Scheme29 Aug 2026
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