. /.  WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/EEC/386 
20 July 2011  
 (11-3620) 
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):  Household tumble driers 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Draft Commission 
Delegated Regulation supplementing Directive 2010/30/EU of the European Parliament and 
of the Council with regard to energy labelling of household tumble driers (23 pages, in 
English).   
6. Description of content:  The draft Commission Delega ted Regulation establishes 
requirements for the energy labe lling and the provision of product information of household 
electric and gas fired tumble driers.  It will repeal Commis sion Directive 95/13/EC of 23 May 
1995 implementing Council Directive 92/75/EEC (revised by 2010/30/EU) with regard to 
energy labelling of household electric tumble driers.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  The 
aim is to allow end-users to ma ke an informed choice when buying household tumble driers - 
thereby pulling the market towards more environmentally friendly appliances.  It will 
contribute to the fight against climate change and the increase of energy efficiency in the EU.  G/TBT/N/EEC/386 
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  8. Relevant documents:   Directive 2010/30/EU of the Europe an Parliament and of the Council 
of 19 May 2010 on the indication by labelling and standard product information of the 
consumption of energy and other resources by  energy-related products, Official Journal L 
153, 18 June 2010, P. 001. 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=OJ :L:2010:153:0001:0012:EN:PDF  
Commission Directive 95/13/EC of 23 May 1995 implementing Council Directive 92/75/EEC 
with regard to energy labelling of household elec tric tumble driers, Official Journal L 136, 21 
June 1995, P. 28. 
"http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ /LexUriServ.do?uri=CON SLEG:1995L0013:20070101:EN:PDF "  
Council Directive 92/75/EEC of 22 Septembe r 1992 on the indication by labelling and 
standard product information of the consumpti on of energy and other resources by household 
appliances 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L exUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31992L0075:EN:HTML   
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    Early 2012  
20 days from publication in  the Official Journal 
of the EU.  The first requirements will be applicable 12 months afte r entry into force of 
the Regulation 
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/  
And can be downloaded at: 
http://members.wto.org/crnatt achments/2011/tbt/EEC/11_2332_00_e.pdf