. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/SGP/4 
15 August 2008 
 (08-3873) 
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:   SINGAPORE
 
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):         
2. Agency responsible:   National Environment Agency 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site 
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be  indicated if different from above:         
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):   8451 2100: 
Single-phase clothes dryer namely an assembly consisting of a rotating drum, in which 
textile material is dried by tumbling, and a h eating device, which electrically heats the air 
used for drying the textile material in the rotating drum.  The clothes dryer (not being second-hand goods) shall have a rated capacity of 10 kilograms or lower. 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:    
Environmental Protection and Management (Registrable Goods) Order (in English). 
Environmental Protection and Management (Energy Conservation) Regulations (in 
English). 
 
Both documents can found online at ht tp://agcvldb.agc.gov.sg/html/homepage.html  
 
(The existing Environmental Protection and Management (Registrab le Goods) Order and 
Environmental Protection and Management (E nergy Conservation) Regulations will be 
amended to extend the mandatory registration and labelling requirements to clothes dryers 
as defined in (4) above from Apr 09.) 
6. Description of content:    
All clothes dryers covered must be register ed and labelled to provide information on its 
levels of energy efficiency if it is to be s upplied in Singapore.  In order to register, the 
clothes dryers covered must be tested to the fo llowing test standard, which would be used to 
determine its energy efficiency: 
Appliance   Type  Applicable Test Standard  
Clothes Dryer  All  IEC 61121 (2005): Tumble dryers for household 
     use – Methods for measuring the performance 
A copy of the IEC test standard is available at www.iec.org. G/TBT/N/SGP/4 
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  7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
To provide the product’s energy efficiency information to consumers via labels. 
8. Relevant documents:   Notice will be published in the Republic of Singapore’s Government 
Gazette when adopted. 
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:   }April 2009 
10. Final date for comments:   6 October 2008 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [    ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body:   
Ms Tng Mei Ling 
Engineer Resource Conservation Department 
40 Scotts Road 
#11-00 Environment Building Singapore 228231 
Telephone:      +(65) 6731-9908 
Fax:                 +(65) 6734-6956 
Email:             tng_mei_ling@nea.gov.sg 
Website:         www.nea.gov.sg