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ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/EU/86 
11 January 2013  
 (13-0169) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Notifying Member:  EUROPEAN UNION  
If applicable, name of local governme nt involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:  European Commission 
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 :   
European Commission EU-TBT Enquiry Point Fax:  +(32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail:  mailto:eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
Website:  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ X ], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [ X ], 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):  Electrical and electronic 
household and office equipm ent (networked products) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Commission 
Regulation amending Commission Regulation (EC) No 1275/2008 with regard to ecodesign 
requirements for standby, off mode  electric power consumption of electrical and electronic 
household and office equipment and ame nding Commission Regulation (EC) No 642/2009 
with regard to ecodesign requirements for te levisions (16 pages, in English).     
6. Description of content:  This draft Commission Regulati on amends the existing standby 
regulation (EC) No 1275/2008 and sets essentia l requirements for standby operating 
conditions in which networked equipment is able to  be reactivated by an external trigger via a 
network connection.  The existing standby regul ation will be complemented by definitions, 
power management requirements and power cons umption levels related to the equipment's 
network availability, transition periods and a dditional elements for measurements which are 
not provided by standard EN 50564.  
In accordance with Framework Directiv e 2009/125/EC, products not meeting these 
requirements will not be allowed to be placed on the EU market. 
The draft Regulation is based on the findings of a technical, environmental and economic 
study which has been carried out with  stakeholders from around the world. G/TBT/N/EU/86 
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7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Fight against climate change and increase of energy efficiency in the EU.  
8. Relevant documents:   Directive 2009/125/EC of the Europe an Parliament and of the Council 
of 21 October 2009 establishing a framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements for 
energy-related products, Official J ournal L 285 , 31 October 2009 P. 0010. 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/Le xUriServ/LexUriServ.do?ur i=OJ:L:2009:285:0010:01:EN:HTML    
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    July 2013 
20 days from publication in  the Official Journal 
of the EU.  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from date of notification 
11. Text available from:  National enquiry point [  ], or address, telephone and fax numbers, 
e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:    
European Commission 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point 
Fax:  + (32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail:  mailto:eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
The text is available on the EU-TBT Website :  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/