Dear Colleagues, Yesterday, on October 12, 2011, the Canada Gazette, Part II, published the Amendment 11 to the Energy Efficiency Regulations;
It comes into force six months after publication, on April 12, 2012. For general contact information, please refer to Canada Gazette or to the PDF SOR/DORS-2011-182. The amendment will: Increase the stringency and/or scope of existing minimum energy performance standards (MEPS) for seven currently regulated products: Electric motors, Residential gas boilers, Residential oil boilers, Dry-type transformers, Large air-conditioners and heat pumps, Commercial self-contained refrigeration, General service incandescent reflector lamps and Introduce new MEPS and associated reporting and compliance requirements for five products: Standby for electronic products, Compact audio products, Television (TV) and TV combination units (and reporting only of TV on mode), Video products, External power supplies, Digital TV adaptors, Electric boilers, and Single package vertical air-conditioners and heat pumps. At the following links you may access the the text for: Energy Efficiency Regulations - Standby Power Consumption: http://oee.nrcan.gc.ca/regulations/amendment11/standby-power-consumption -oct2011.cfm and Energy Efficiency Regulations for External Power supplies: http://oee.nrcan.gc.ca/regulations/amendment11/external-power-supplies-o ct2011.cfm Respectfully yours, Constantin Constantin Bolintineanu P.Eng. iNARTE Certified Product Safety Engineer Digital Security Controls (DSC) a Division of Tyco Safety Products Canada 3301 LANGSTAFF Road, L4K 4L2 CONCORD, ONTARIO, CANADA e-mail: cbolintine...@dsc.com Tel: 905 760 3000 ext 2568 Fax: 905 760 3020 Before printing this e-mail think if it is necessary DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message may contain privileged or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not disclose, use, disseminate, distribute, copy or rely upon this message or attachment in any way. If you received this e-mail message in error, please return the message and its attachments to the sender, and then please delete from your system without copying or forwarding it or call TSPC at 905 760 3000 extension 2568 so that the sender's address records can be corrected. - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <emc-p...@ieee.org> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <emcp...@radiusnorth.net> Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald: <dhe...@gmail.com>