G/TBT/N/LKA/40  
6 July 2020  
(20-4629) 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:  SRI LANKA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Ministry of Power and Energy  
72, Ananda Coomarswamy Mw,  Colombo 07, Sri Lanka  
Tel: +94 11 2 574922 Fax: +94 11 2 574743  
Web: http://powermin.gov.lk  
Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority  
Block 05, 1st Floor, BMICH, Bauddhaloka M awatha, Colombo 07, Sri Lanka  
Tel: 0112677445,  0112697375, 0112675649 Fax: 0112682534 Email: info@energy.gov.lk   
web: http://www.energy.gov.lk  
Sri Lanka Standards Institution  
No. 17, Victoria Place, Elvitigala Mawatha, Colombo 08, Sri Lanka  
Tel: +94 112 671 567 -72  
web: www.slsi.lk  
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):  
Products  covered in the Gazette Notification No. 2177/3 dated 26 May 2020  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Gazett e 
Extraordinary of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka No. 2177/3 dated 
26 May 2020 (5 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  No person shall import in Sri Lanka, any LED lamp which fails to 
conform to the energy performance standards specified in Sri Lanka Standards (SLS) 
1530:2016 and approved by Sri Lanka Standards Institution and shall be required to have 
a Minimum Energy Pe rformance (MEP) label affixed to the cover, wrapper or the box in 
which the product is contained.  
By submitting Minimum Energy Performance (MEP) certificate issued by the Sri Lanka 
Standards Institution, certifying that any LED Lamp being imported, as the case may be, 
by such importer, conforms to the Sri Lanka Standards specified in SLS 1530:2016. Such 
certificate shall be admissible in evidence and be accepted as prime facie proof of the facts 
contained therein.  G/TBT/N/LKA/40  
 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  To deliver a quality product to consumer  
8. Relevant documents:   
• Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority Act No. 35 of 2007 
• Sri Lanka Standards Institutio n Act No. 6 of 1984 
9. Proposed date of adoption:  In operation  
Proposed date of entry into force:  In operation  
10. Final date for comments:  - 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
Sri Lanka Standards Institution  
17 Victoria Place  
Elvitigala Mawatha  
P.O. Box: 17  
Colombo 08  
Sri Lanka  
Fax : +94 11 2671553  
E-mail: ddi@slsi.lk  
Web: http://www.slsi.lk  
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