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31 March 2021  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication , dated  30 March 2021 , is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of Egypt . 
 
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Title: The Egyptian Standard 5056 -1 Refrigerating systems and heat pumps — Safety and 
environmental requirements — Part 1: Definitions, classification and selection criteria" (62 page(s), 
in Arabic).  
 
Reason for Addendum:  
[  ] Comment period changed - date:   
[  ] Notified measure adopted - date:  
[  ] Notified measure published - date:  
[  ] Notified measure enters into force - date:  
[  ] Text of final measure available from1:  
[  ] Notified measure withdrawn or revoked - date:  
Relevant symbol if measure re -notified:   
[X] Content or scope of notified measure changed  and text available from1:  
New deadline for comments (if applicable):   
[  ] Interpretive guidance issued and text available from1:  
[  ] Other:  
 
Description:  Products covered: Heat pumps (ICS 27.080), Refrigerating technology (ICS 27.200)  
This addendum concerns the notification of the Ministerial Decree No. 609 /2020 (3 pages, in Arabic) 
that gives the producers and importers a six -month transitional period to abide by the Egyptian 
Standard ES 5056 -1 for " Refrigerating systems and heat pumps — Safety and environmental 
requirements — Part 1: Definitions, classifi cation and selection criteria " (62 page(s), in Arabic).  
It should be noted that the draft of this Egyptian standard was formerly notified in G/TBT/N/EGY/271 
dated 5 October 2020.  
Worth mentioning is that this standard is technically identical with ISO 514 9-1:2014 (Confirmed In 
2020).  
Producers and importers are kept informed of any amendments in the Egyptian standards through 
the publication of administrative orders in the official gazette.  
Proposed date of adoption: 4 December 2020.  
 
1 This information can be provided by including a website address, a pdf attachment, or other 
information on where the text of the final /modified  measure and/or interpretive guidance can be obtained.  G/TBT/N/EGY/271/Add.1  
 
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  Proposed date of entry  into force: 15 January 2021.  
Agency or authority designated to handle comments and text available from:  
National Enquiry Point Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality 16 Tadreeb El -
Modarrebeen St., Ameriya, Cairo – Egypt E -mail: eos@idsc.net.eg /eos.tbt@eos.org.eg  Website: 
http://www.eos.org.eg  Tel: + (202) 22845528 Fax: + (202) 22845504  
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