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Notifying Member: China

If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):

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Agency responsible: Standardization Administration of China (SAC)

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:

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Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ ], other:

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Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Household refrigerators (ICS: 27.010; HS: 8415)

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Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: National Standard of the P.R.C. – The Maximum Allowable Values of the Energy Consumption and Energy Efficiency Grades for Household Refrigerators (95 pages, in Chinese)

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Description of content: Articles 4.3 of this standard is mandatory, the rest are recommended. The mandatory contents are the maximum allowable values of energy consumption. It covers the household refrigerator driven by the electric compressor, including the refrigerator with a capacity larger than 500 litres. It does not cover the refrigerator for the special purpose such as the embedded refrigerator, the exhibition refrigerator with the transparent door and so on.

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Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: To save energy

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Relevant documents: –

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Proposed date of adoption: 90 days after circulation by the WTO Secretariat

Proposed date of entry into force: 6 months after adoption

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Final date for comments: 60 days after circulation by the WTO Secretariat

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Texts available from: National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:

WTO/TBT National Notification and Enquiry Center of the People's Republic of China

Tel.: +86 10 84603950/84603782

Fax: +86 10 84603811

E-mail: tbt@aqsiq.gov.cn

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