Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade - Notification - United States - General service lamps

NOTIFICATION

The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6

 

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Notifying Member: United States of America

If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):

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Agency responsible: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (OEERE), Department of Energy (DOE) [1103]

Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:

Please submit comments to: USA WTO TBT Enquiry Point

Email: usatbtep@nist.gov

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Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ ], other:

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Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): General service lamps- Lamps (HS: 851310). Test conditions and procedures in general (ICS: 19.020), Lamps and related equipment (ICS: 29.140)

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Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Energy Conservation Program: Test Procedures for Certain Categories of General Service Lamps (10 pages, in English)

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Description of content: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) proposes to establish test procedures for certain categories of general service lamps (GSLs) to support the ongoing energy conservation standards rulemaking. Specifically, this rulemaking proposes new test procedures for determining the initial lumen output, input power, lamp efficacy, power factor, and standby mode power of GSLs that are not integrated light emitting diode (LED) lamps, compact florescent lamps (CFLs), or general service incandescent lamps (GSILs). DOE is also proposing clarifying references to the existing lamp test procedures and sampling plans for determining the represented values of integrated LED lamps, CFLs, and GSILs.

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Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: Protection of the environment

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Relevant documents: 81 Federal Register (FR) 14631, 17 March 2016; Title 10 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Parts 429 & 430. Will appear in the Federal Register when adopted.

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Proposed date of adoption: To be determined

Proposed date of entry into force: To be determined

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Final date for comments: 18 April 2016

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Texts available from: National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:

https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2016/TBT/USA/16_1193_00_e.pdf