Energy-Using Products (Amendment) Regulations, 2010

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta Nru. 18,578, 13 ta’ April, 2010

L.N. 224 of 2010

PRODUCT SAFETY ACT

(CAP. 427)

Framework for the Setting of Ecodesign Requirements for

Energy-Using Products (Amendment) Regulations, 2010

IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 38 to 40 of the

Product Safety Act, the Prime Minister, on the advice of the Malta

Standards Authority, has made the following regulations:–

(1) The title of these regulations is the Framework for Citation and scope.

the Setting of Ecodesign (Amendment) Requirements for Energy-

Using Products Regulations, 2010. and they shall be read and

construed as one with the Framework for the Setting of Ecodesign

Requirements for Energy-Using Products Regulations, hereinafter S.L. 427.64

referred to as “the principal regulations”.

(2) These regulations apply to the requirements of the

following

(a) Commission Regulation (EC) No 640/2009 of

22 July 2009 implementing Directive 2005/32/EC of the

European Parliament and of the Council with regard to

ecodesign requirements for electric motors;

(b) Commission Regulation (EC) No 641/2009 of

22 July 2009 implementing Directive 2005/32/EC of the

European Parliament and of the Council with regard to

ecodesign requirements for glandless standalone circulators

and glandless circulators integrated in products;

(c) Commission Regulation (EC) No 642/2009 of

22 July 2009 implementing Directive 2005/32/EC of the

European Parliament and of the Council with regard to

ecodesign requirements for televisions;

(d) Commission Regulation (EC) No 643/2009

of 22 July 2009 implementing Directive 2005/32/EC of

the European Parliament and of the Council with regard

to ecodesign requirements for household refrigerating

appliances.

In sub-regulation (2) of regulation 2 of the principal

regulations, immediately after paragraph (h) thereof, there shall be

added the following

“(i) products within the meaning of Commission

Regulation (EC) No 640/2009 of 22 July 2009 implementing

Directive 2005/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the

Council with regard to ecodesign requirements for electric

motors;

(j) products within the meaning of Commission

Regulation (EC) No 641/2009 of 22 July 2009 implementing

Directive 2005/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the

Council with regard to ecodesign requirements for glandless

standalone circulators and glandless circulators integrated in

products;

(k) products within the meaning of Commission

Regulation (EC) No 642/2009 of 22 July 2009 implementing

Directive 2005/32/EC of the European Parliament and

of the Council with regard to ecodesign requirements for

televisions;

(l) products within the meaning of Commission

Regulation (EC) No 643/2009 of 22 July 2009 implementing

Directive 2005/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the

Council with regard to ecodesign requirements for household

refrigerating appliances.”.

For the definition “the Directorate” in regulation 3 of the

principal regulations, there shall be substituted the following

“ “the Directorate” means the Regulatory Affairs

Directorate of the Malta Standards Authority, as established

by virtue of the Establishment of Directorates of the Malta

Standards Authority Order;”.

Regulation 6 of the principal regulations shall be

amended as follows

(a) in paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (2) thereof,

for the words “Director of Consumer Affairs” there shall be

substituted the words “Director of Market Surveillance”; and

(b) in paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (3) thereof,

for the words “Director of Consumer Affairs” there shall be

substituted the words “Director of Market Surveillance”.

In regulation 10 of the principal regulations, the words Amends regulation

“Director of Consumer Affairs”, wherever they occur, shall be 10

substituted with the words “Director of Market Surveillance”.

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