G/TBT/N/CHL/504  
17 October  2019 
(19-6754) 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 : Ministerio de Energía  (Ministry of Energy)  
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:  
Subse cretaría de Relaciones Económicas Internacionales  - Ministerio de Relaciones 
Exteriores  (Undersecretariat for International Economic Relations, Ministry of Foreign 
Affairs)  
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) : Indoor 
lighting products including light bulbs, compact fluorescent lamps, LED lamps and halogen 
light bulbs  
5. Title, number of pages and la nguage(s) of the notified document : Informe Técnico 
Preliminar para la Actualización Estándar Mínimo de Eficiencia Energética Productos para 
uso de Iluminación Interior (Preliminary technical report for the updating of the minimum 
energy efficiency standar d for indoor lighting products) (63 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The minimum energy efficiency standard for light bulbs has 
been updated in order to take into account the progress achieved since its entry into force 
in 2013 . The notified report provides the basis for increasing the energy efficiency 
standard, as well as a technical, economic and environmental evaluation.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Protection of the environment  
8. Relevant documents:  
Under Article 4(h) of Decree -Law No. 2.224 of 1978, the Ministry of Energy is required to 
issue a resolution setting out the minimum energy efficiency standards to be met by 
products, machines, instruments, equipment, appliances, devices and materials, powered 
by electricity, gas, fuel or any other energy source, in order to be marketed in the country, 
and therefore must issue regulations establishing a procedure to set out such standards.  
Decreto Nº 97, de 15 de noviem bre de 2011, del Ministerio de Energía, que Aprueba 
Reglamento que establece el procedimiento para la fijación de estándares mínimos de 
eficiencia energética y normas para su aplicación . G/TBT/N/CHL/504  
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  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 (Undersecretariat for 
International Economic Relations)  
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores  de Chile  (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile)  
Teatinos 180, piso 11  
Tel.: (+56)-2- 2827 5250  
Fax: (+56)-2- 2380 9494  
Email: tbt_chile@direcon.gob.cl  
http://www.energia.gob.cl/participa  
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