CELEX: 51983PC0694
Language: en
Date: 1983-11-18
Title: AMENDMENT TO THE PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE CONCERNING AIRBORNE NOISE EMITTED BY HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES

10.12.83                          Official Journal of the European Communities                              N o C 334/15
         Amendment to the proposal for a Council Directive concerning airborne noise emitted by
                                              household appliances (')
                                                 COM(83) 694 final
         (Submitted by the Commission to the Council pursuant to Article 149 (2) of the EEC Treaty
                                               on 23 November 1983)
         Preamble and recitals 1 to 5 unchanged.
         Add a new recital 6 reading as follows:
               'Whereas the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) has adopted a test
               code for the determination of airborne acoustical noise emitted by household and
               similar electrical appliances, published in IEC Publication 704-1, 1982, First Edition,
               and the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (Cenelec) has
               endorsed this publication in Harmonization Document H D 432-1; whereas it is
               therefore appropriate that the Community should adopt solutions which have
               already been approved on a very wide scale at international level;'.
         Present recital 6 becomes number 7.
         Articles 1 to 6 unchanged.
         Article 7 (2) is deleted, and the present Article 7 ( 1 ) becomes whole Article 7.
         Articles 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 unchanged.
         Annex I: the entire Annex is replaced by the following:
             The noise levels of each family of household appliance shall be determined in accordance with
             the methods defined in IEC Publication 704-1, 1982, First Edition, of the International
              Electrotechnical Commission, which has been endorsed by the European Committee for
              Electrotechnical Standardization (Cenelec) in Harmonization Document HD 423-1. The
             values obtained in this way constitute the basic data for checking the accuracy of their noise
              emission with the declared values. Unless otherwise indicated, these values are inclusive of
              tolerances. This test code is applicable unless separate Directives lay down different or sup-
              plementary provisions taking into account the special characteristics of certain types of
              household appliances.'
         Annex II unchanged.
         (') OJ No C 181, 19. 7. 1982, p. 1.