. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/EEC/272/Rev.1 
26 March 2010  
 (10-1649) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:   English 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
Revision
 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated in accordance with Article 10.6. 
 
1. Member to Agreement notifying:  EUROPEAN UNION  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):     
2. Agency responsible:   European Commission 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail 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:  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 applicab le, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICS numbers may be provided in  addition, where applicable):   Televisions 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Commission 
Delegated Regulation implementing Directive 2010/ …/EU of the European Parliament and of 
the Council with regard to energy labelling of televisions (23 pages, in English). 
6. Description of content:  A draft Commission Directive implementing and amending Council 
Directive 92/75/EC with regard to energy labellin g of televisions was notified at a draft stage 
on 5 May 2009 (EEC/272).  In the legislative procedure the draft has been revised and is 
replaced by the present draft Commission Delegated Regulation which establishes requirements for the labelling and the provision  of supplementary product information on 
televisions, including a grading of energy effici ency of televisions which is based on their on-
mode power consumption. The amendment con cerns an amended timing and an upgrade of 
the foreseen energy efficiency ranking. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the natu re of urgent problems where applicable:  
The aim is to allow end-users to make an info rmed choice regarding energy efficiency when 
purchasing televisions, thereby providing incentives for manufactures/end-users to 
design/purchase energy efficient televisions and ultimately pulling the market towards more 
environmentally-friendly models.  The initiative w ill increase energy efficiency in the EU and 
contribute to a reduction of CO2 emissions. G/TBT/N/EEC/272/Rev.1 
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  8. Relevant documents:  Council Directive 92/75/EEC of 22 September 1992 on the indication 
by labelling and standard produc t information of the consumption of energy and other 
resources by household appliances, OJ  L 297, 13 October 1992, p. 6. 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/Lex UriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31992L0075:EN:HTML
 
Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the indication by 
labelling and standard product info rmation of the consumption of  energy and other resources 
by energy-relate products (recast), adoption foreseen in June 2010, status accessible on 
http://www.europarl.europa. eu/oeil/file.jsp?id=5715632  
Harmonised standards building on measurement  methods, which are identical to those 
applicable for Commission Regulation (EC) No 642/2009 (notified under 
G/TBT/N/EEC/271/Add.1) setting ecodesign re quirements for televisions, OJ L 191, 
23.7.2009, p. 42 are under development. Refe rences to transitional measurement methods, 
IEC 62087 and EN/IEC 62301, will be published in the OJ C. 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:191:SOM:EN:HTML  
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    July 2010 
20 days from publication in the Official Journal of the EU.  The first requirements will be 
applicable 12 months after publication.  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from date of notification. 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [   ], or address, telephone or fax numbers, 
e-mail and web-site address, if available of the other body:    
European Commission 
EU-TBT Enquiry Point Fax:  + (32) 2 299 80 43 E-mail:  ec-tbt@ec.europa.eu The text is available on the EU-TBT Website:  http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/tbt/ 
  
And can also be downloaded here: 
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2010/tbt/eec/10_1247_00_e.pdf