G/TBT/N/PAK/139  
9 February 2021  
(21-1006) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  PAKISTAN   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Pakistan Standards & Quality Control Authority  
WTO TBT National Enquiry Point  
PSQCA Complex, Gulistan -e-Johar  
Karachi, Pakistan  
Tel.: (+92) 21 99261878  
E-mail: tbt@psqca.com.pk   
Website: http://www.psqca.com.pk/  
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:   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  
Uninterruptible Power Systems (Ups) – Part 1: Safety Requirements PS: IEC 62040 -
1/2019 ICS No. 29.200  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Uninterruptible 
Power Systems (Ups) – Part 1: Safety Requirements PS: IEC 62040 -1/2019 ICS No. 
29.200 (71 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Pakistan Standard was adopted by the authority of the 
Board of Directors of Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority (PSQCA), after the 
draft prepared by the Technical Comm ittee for "Power electronics. Industrial - process 
measurement and control (ESTC -3)" had been approved and endorsed by the National 
Standards Committee for Electronics on 04 -02-2019.  
This Pakistan Standard PS: IEC 62040 -1-2013 was adopted in the year 2014 b ased on 
IEC 62040 -1-2013 "Uninterruptible power systems (UPS) – Part 1: Safety requirements". 
Since IEC has revised this standard in 2017, hence it deemed necessary to revise this 
Pakistan Standard also on IEC basis.  
This Standards is an adoption of IEC Publication 62040 -1-2017.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  This Part of IEC 62040 applies to movable, stationary, fixed or built -in UPS 
for use in low - voltage distribution systems and that are intended  to be installed in an 
area accessible by an ordinary person or in a restricted access area as applicable, that 
deliver fixed frequency AC output voltage with port voltages not exceeding 1 000 V AC or 
1 500 V DC and that include an energy storage device. I t applies to pluggable and to 
permanently connected UPS, whether consisting of a system of interconnected units or of G/TBT/N/PAK/139  
 
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  independent units, subject to installing, operating and maintaining the UPS in the manner 
prescribed by the manufacturer. Quality and Safe ty requirements.; Other  
8. Relevant documents:   
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AylmLZnWAG20Yor0dM1ws72uFKTQp1yF/view?usp=sh
aring  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  90 days after circulation by the WTO Secretariat  
Proposed date of entry into force:  90 days after circulation by the WTO Secretariat  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
Pakistan Standards & Quality Control Authority  
WTO TBT National Enquiry Point  
PSQCA Complex, Gulistan -e-Johar  
Karachi, Pakistan  
Tel.: (+92) 21 99261878   
E-mail: tbt@psqca.com.pk   
Website: http://www.psqca.com.pk/  
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