. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/EEC/277 
23 June 2009  
 (09-3069) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
  
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 auth ority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above :  
European Commission EC-TBT Enquiry Point Fax:  +(32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail:  ec-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 [   ], 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):  Non-directional household 
lamps.        
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Commission 
Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 244/2009 as regards the ecodesign requirements on 
ultraviolet radiation of non-directional ho usehold lamps (3 pages, in English).  
6. Description of content:  This draft Commission Regulatio n amends Regulation (EC) No 
244/2009 by removing requirements in  Table 5 on the ultraviolet radiation of other lamps than 
compact fluorescent lamps and light emitting diod e lamps. This is done in order to correct 
overlaps with existing EU le gislation on product safety.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
Ensuring consistency between differ ent pieces of EU legislation.  G/TBT/N/EEC/277 
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  8. Relevant documents:   Directive 2005/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council 
of 6 July 2005 establishing a framework for th e setting of ecodesign re quirements for energy-
using products, Official Journal L 191 , 22 July 2005 P. 0029 – 0058http://eur-lex.europa.eu/Le xUriServ/LexUriServ.do?ur i=OJ:L:2005:191:0029:0058:EN:PDF 
  
Commission Regulation (EC) No 244/2009 of  18 March 2009 implementing Directive 
2005/32/EC of the European Parliament and of  the Council with regard to ecodesign 
requirements for non-dir ectional household lamps, Offici al Journal L76 of 24 March 2009 
p. 3-16 (TBT referenc e:  G/TBT/N/EEC/237) 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=OJ :L:2009:076:0003:0016:EN:PDF  
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    To be determined. 
On the day following the date of 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 
EC-TBT Enquiry Point Fax:  + (32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail:  ec-tbt@ec.europa.eu The text is available on the EC-TBT Website :  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/ 
  
And can also be downloaded here.