WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/SGP/3 
16 May 2007 
 (07-2003) 
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):   Please see Annex I 
attached.  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   Environmental 
Pollution Control (Amendment) Bill (13/2007) (12 pages, in English). 
6. Description of content:    
All appliances listed in Annex A must be registered and labelled to provide information on 
their levels of energy efficiency if they are to be supplied in Singapore.  In order to register, 
the appliances must be tested to the followi ng test standards, which would be used to 
determine their energy efficiency : 
Appliance Type Applicable Test Standard 
Refrigerator  All ISO 15502 (2005): Household 
refrigerating appliances – Characteristics and test methods 
Air-conditioner Casement, window, split 
(non-inverter) ISO 5151 (1994): Non-ducted air-
conditioners and heat pumps – 
Testing and rating for performance 
 Split type (inverter) JIS C 9612 (1994): Room air-
conditioners 
 
Copies of the ISO and JIS test standards are available at www.iso.org and www.jsa.or.jp 
respectively. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:  
To provide appliances’ energy efficiency  information to consumers via labels. G/TBT/N/SGP/3 
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  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:    June 2007 
July 2007 
10. Final date for comments:   24 June 2007 
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 Wendy Wong 
Executive Engineer Resource Conservation Department 
40 Scotts Road 
#11-00 Environment Building Singapore 228231 Telephone: (+65) 6731-9515 Fax:  (+65) 6734-6956 
Email:  wendy_wong@nea.gov.sg 
Website: www.nea.gov.sg 
 
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  Annex I 
 
No HS Code Commodity 
1. 8415 10xx Single-phase non-ducted room ai r-conditioner namely an encased, factory-
made assembly or assemblies designed to  be used as a permanently installed 
equipment to provide conditioned air to  an enclosed space(s). It includes a 
prime source of refrigeration for c ooling and dehumidification and may 
optionally include other means for humidifying, circulating and cleaning the air. It includes one or more evaporators, compressors and condensers. Such equipment may be provided in mo re than one assembly, the separate 
assemblies of which are intended to be used together.  
The air-conditioner shall have a total cooling capacity of: 
(i) 8.8 kW, in the case of casement or window type air-conditioner
1; 
(ii) 17.6 kW, in the case of split type air-conditioner employing 
technologies that control the output of the compressor by start-stop operation; or 
(iii) 10.kW, in the case of split type air-conditioner
2 employing 
technologies that vary the output of the compressor, by means other than start-stop operation, to match the changes in outdoor/indoor temperatures. 
 
1Casement or window type air-conditioner refers to a factory assembly of components 
of a refrigeration system fixed on a common mounting to form a single unit.  
 
2Split type air-conditioner refers to a factory assembly of components of a 
refrigeration system fixed on 2 or more mountings to form a matched functional unit. 
 
2. 8418 1010 
8418 2100 Single-phase refrigerator namely a self-contained assembly consisting of a 
thermally insulated cabinet for the storage and preservation of foodstuffs above 0°C (32°F) and of a refri gerating unit operating on the vapour 
compression principle and arranged to ex tract heat from within the cabinet, 
whether or not with one or more freezer compartments with an adjusted 
volume of up to 900 litres.  The adjusted volume of the refrigerator is  defined as the sum of the adjusted 
volumes of the refrigerator’s compartments. The adjusted volume of a 
refrigerated compartment is the pro duct of the rated volume of that 
compartment with the corresponding volume correction factor (K) found in the table below.  
Compartment Type K 
Fresh food 1.00 
*** Freezer  1.85 
** Freezer  1.63 
* Freezer  1.18 
Cellar 0.78 
 
The compartment types are defined in accordance with Section 3.3 of the International Standards Organi sation standard ISO15502:2005.