G/TBT/N/CHL/525  
24 July 2020 
(20-5101) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
  NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.  
 
1. Notifying Member : CHILE 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible : Superintendencia de Electricidad y Combustibles , SEC (Electricity 
and Fuel Board)  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notificati on shall be indicated if different from above:  
Subsecretaría de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales - Ministerio de Relaciones 
Exteriores de Chile  (Undersecretariat for International Economic Relations, Ministry of 
Foreign Affairs of Chile)  
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) : Clothes 
washer -dryers for household  use 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : PE Nº 1/06 -
1/2:2020 Protocolo de Análisis y/o Ensayos de Eficiencia de Producto Eléctrico  (PE No. 
1/06-1/2:2020 : Efficiency analysis and/or test protocol for electrical products) (4 pages, 
in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified protocol establishes the efficiency certification 
procedure for electric clothes washer -dryers for household use, in accordance with the 
scope and field of application of International Electrotech nical Commission (IEC) Standard 
62512:2012.  
Although this Standard is based on IEC 61121  on tumble dryers and IEC 60456  on clothes 
washers, it specifies the conditions needed to test the combined function of washing and 
drying, as well as the test methods for the testing of household combined washer -dryers 
in their function to wash and dry textiles . This International Standard does not apply for 
testing individual washing or drying functions.  
The object is to state and define the principal performance chara cteristics of household 
electric washer -dryers of interest to users and to describe standard methods for 
measuring these characteristics.  
It also applies to:  
1.- Washer -dryers for communal use in blocks of flats or in launderettes.  
2.- Built-in washer -dryers.  
3.- Washer -dryers with more than one drum.  
It does not apply to:  
1.- Washer -dryers for commercial laundries.  G/TBT/N/CHL/525  
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Prevention of deceptive practices and consume r protection ; Quality 
requirements  
8. Relevant documents:  
• IEC 62512 :2012 -09: Electric clothes washer -dryers for household use - Methods 
for measuring the performance  
9. Proposed date of adoption : - 
Proposed date of entry into force : - 
10. Final date for comments : 60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from : National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Subsecretaría de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales  
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Chile  
Teatinos 180, piso 11  
Tel.: (+56) 2 2827 5250  
Fax: (+56) 2 2380 9494  
Email: tbt_Chile@subrei.gob.cl  
https://www.sec.cl/consulta -publica/  
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