. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/TBT/N/EEC/322 
23 March 2010  
 (10-1590) 
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 UNION
  
If applicable, name of local government 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:  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):  Household dishwashers.    
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 labe lling of household dishwashers (22 pages, in 
English).     
6. Description of content:  This draft Commission delegated Regulation establishes 
requirements for the labelling and the provision of supplementary product information on 
household dishwashers including a grading of en ergy efficiency.  It will repeal Commission 
Directive 97/17/EC of 16 April 1997 impl ementing Council Directive 92/75/EEC with 
regard to energy labelling of household dishwashers.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the natu re of urgent problems where applicable:  
The aim is to allow end-users to make an informed choice when buying household 
dishwashers – thereby pulling the market towards more environmentally friendly 
dishwashers.  It will contribute to the fight  against climate change and the increase of 
energy efficiency in the EU.  
8. Relevant documents:   Council Directive 92/75/EEC of 22 September 1992 on the 
indication by labelling and standard product info rmation of the consumption of energy and 
other resources by household appliances , OJ L 297, 13 October 1992, p. 6. G/TBT/N/EEC/322 
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  http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/Lex UriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31992L0075:EN:HTML
 
Proposal for a Directive of the European Par liament and of the Council on the indication by 
labelling and standard product information 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  
Commission Directive 97/17/EC of 16 April 1997 implementing Council Directive 
92/75/EEC with regard to energy labelling of  household dishwashers, Official Journal 
L 118, 7 May 1997, P. 001 
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/Lex UriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31997L0017:EN:HTML  
9. Proposed date of adoption:   
Proposed date of entry into force:    September 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. Text available from: National enquiry po int [  ], 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:  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_1204_00_e.pdf