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(Attachment 2} MCLs and DRAFT GULF STANDARD BLIO070 STATE CURRENT SITUATION BAHRAIN KD-WAIT OMAN QATAR K.S.A. U.A.E. There has been no notification of any planned change. There has been no change to Ministerial decree No. 223 stating 1.2 "tar' and 0.8 nicotine as of I February 1996. The new 1995 Draft Gulf Standard which refers to 10.0 'tar" and 0.6 nicotine, as well as 12.0 Carbon Monoxide was circulated to some Kuwait distributors, but there has no follow-up by Government. The situation between Commerce and Health has not yet been clarified, although there are signs that Commerce is trying to wrest back control of these commercial issues. There has no further change following the meeting with industry in Oman on 6 Feb. 1996, when the Director General of Specifications confirmed verbally that there would be no change in the immediate future. Shipments are still being received at existing MCLs. The Chamber of Commerce has sent a letter to distributors informing them of the GCC Health Council Resolution on MCLs. This does not have any weight under Qatari law which still states that MCL are at 12.0 & 0.8 and this Law would have to be amended By adoption of the GCC draft Gulf Standard as a Saudi standard No. 597/1995, the new levels of MCLs applied from 4 May 1996. The Chamber of Commerce has sent a letter to distributors informing them of the GCC Health Council Resolution on MCLs At the same time Abu Dhabi municipality has served notice on retailers in Abu Dhabi not to sell cigarettes above the "new' MCLs and has stopped a shipment on the Dubai-Abu Dhabi highway. 10/6/1996