חוק התקנים (תיקון מס' 21), התשפ"ו-2026Standards Law (Amendment No. 21), 2026 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

The main purpose of the amendment to the Law is to enable an additional route for the import, manufacture, or sale of products subject to an official standard, by relying on compliance with the requirements of U.S. federal regulation adopted into Israeli law and detailed in the Eighth Schedule to the Standards Law, as an alternative to the obligation to comply with Israeli standardization requirements ("what is good for the U.S. is good for Israel"). The amendment to the Law establishes that a dealer may choose the "American track," meaning to manufacture, sell, and import products or implement work processes that meet the requirements of American regulation, provided that, with respect to products, the condition is that they are manufactured in the U.S. or in Israel and that the dealer holds a declaration invoice indicating their origin or another document to be determined by order of the Minister of Economy and Industry (hereinafter – the Minister). The amendment to the Law also establishes that the aforementioned American track will not apply to food products, motor vehicles, and products and work processes in the field of fire extinguishing, which were also excluded from the scope of the arrangement enabling reliance on adopted European regulation requirements ("what is good for Europe is good for Israel"). The arrangement established regarding the adoption of American federal regulation is similar in its characteristics to the existing arrangement in the Standards Law regarding the adoption of European regulation. In addition, the amendment to the Law includes provisions stemming from lessons learned following the implementation of the reform regarding the adoption of European regulation that came into effect in January 2025. The amendment to the Law also establishes exceptions and exemptions from the obligation to comply with standardization requirements (Israeli and foreign): first, an exception is established to the obligation to comply with standardization requirements in the case of products intended for use in security activity for the defense industry or for suppliers and plants manufacturing or maintaining security equipment, excluding gas installations and excluding the connection of buildings or installations to certain types of infrastructure. Second, the amendment to the Law authorizes the Minister, with the consent of the Minister of Energy and Infrastructure, to exempt from the obligation to comply with standardization requirements products intended for offshore oil production, if he is convinced that granting the exemption poses no danger to public peace, safety, or the environment, at the request of a license holder or holder of a lease deed under the Petroleum Law. Third, the amendment to the Law authorizes the Minister to extend, in special cases, the validity of an exemption from standardization requirements – which can currently be granted for a period not exceeding one year – for additional periods not exceeding one year in total. In addition, the amendment to the Law establishes provisions intended to address the difficulties of laboratories in Israel in conducting compliance tests for foreign regulation. Accordingly, it is established that test certificates issued by accredited laboratories that are not laboratories approved by the Standards Commissioner, and which have the professional capability and competence to conduct compliance tests for foreign regulation, may be relied upon as evidence of the truth of their content, subject to the conditions specified in the amendment to the Law.

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