G/TBT/N/EU/348  
 
5 February 2016  
(16-0779)  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: EUROPEAN UNION  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible: European Commission 
Name and address (including telephon e 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 : 
European Commission 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point 
Fax: +(32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail: grow-eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu   
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/tbt/  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ ], 2.10 .1 [ ], 5.6.2 [X], 5.7.1 [ ], other: 
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applic able, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Energy-related products 
covered by delegated acts under the Energy Labelling Directive (2010/30/EU) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Draft Commission 
Delegated Regulation amending Dele gated Regulations (EU) No 1059/2010, 
(EU) No 1060/2010, (EU) No 1061/2010, (EU) No 1062/2010, (EU) No 626/2011, 
(EU) No 392/2012, (EU) No 874/2012, (EU) No 665/2013, (EU) No 811/2013, 
(EU) No 812/2013, (EU) No 65/2014, (EU) No 1254/2014, (E U) 2015/1094, (EU) 2015/1186 
and (EU) 2015/1187 with regard to the use of tolerances in verification procedures (5 pages 
+ Annex 31 pages, in English). 
6. Description of content: Verification tolerances in product-specific delegated acts under 
the Energy Labelling Directive (2010/30/EU) are provided for the use of national market 
surveillance authorities verifying compliance, to account for the inevitable differences in the measurement equipment across Europe. However, some manufacturers apply the 
tolerances to the values they measure, in order to declare higher energy efficiency classes, 
or to declare better performance. To tackle the problem and clarify the intended use of verification tolerances, a draft horizontal me asure amending the existing energy labelling 
delegated acts is proposed.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: The aim is to clarify the intended use of verification tolerances in product-
specific delegated acts under the Energy La belling Directive (2010/30/EU), so that the 
delegated acts can fully contribute to the fight against climate change, to increasing energy efficiency in the EU and where rele vant, to saving other types of resources.  G/TBT/N/EU/348 
 
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  8. Relevant documents: Directive 2010/30/EU of the European Parliament  
and of the Council of 19 May 2010 on the indication by labelling and standard  
product information of the consumption of energy and other resources by  
energy-related products, Official Journal L 153, 18 June 2010, P. 001: http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:153:0001:0012:EN:PDF  
9. Proposed date of adoption: May 2016 
Proposed date of entry into force: 20 days from publication in the Official Journal of the 
EU  
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:  
European Commission 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point 
Fax: + (32) 2 299 80 43 
E-mail: grow-eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu   
The text is available on the Website: http://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools-databases/tbt/   
https://members. wto.org/crnattachments/2016/TBT/EEC/16_0466_00_e.pdf   
https://members. wto.org/crnattachments/2016/TBT/EEC/16_0466_01_e.pdf