Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade - Notification - Australia - Water efficient products - Addendum


NOTIFICATION

Addendum

The following communication, dated 5 June 2025, is being circulated at the request of the delegation of Australia.

 

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Title: Australia/New Zealand Standard 6400:2016 Water efficient products — Rating and labelling.

 

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Notified measure enters into force - date: 21 February 2025; By way of amendments to the Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Determination 2013 (No.2).

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Description: This Standard forms a basis for the rating and labelling of a range of products under the mandatory Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards (WELS) scheme, as required by the Australian Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Act 2005 (Cth) (the WELS Act) and, in New Zealand, the Consumer Information Standards (Water Efficiency) Regulations.

Amendments to the Standard were published on 4 November 2022, to improve the scheme and align the Standard with Australia's National Construction code. The amendments include:

·_        introducing minimum water efficiency requirements for plumbing products regulated under the WELS scheme

·_        introduce a minimum water efficiency for dishwashers

·_        require the use of the (WELS) additional label for combination showers

·_        change in colours applied to the 'Not Star Rated' label for showers

·_        changes to 'text advice' text that can be used in place of the WELS label in the supply chain (primarily in supply advertising)

·_        add guidance for displaying WELS information in building development supply advertising.; Consumer information, labelling

The standard amendments came into force on 21 February 2025 with amendment of the Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Determination 2013 (No. 2) - Federal Register of Legislation by reference to the Standard as published on 4 November 2022.

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