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20 September 2023  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
 
NOTIFICATION  
Addendum  
The following communication , dated  20 September 2023, is being circulated at the request of the 
delegation of Egypt . 
 
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Title:  The Egyptian Standard ES 8057 "Energy efficiency of household electrical appliances Methods 
for measuring and calculating energy efficiency of vacuum cleaners".  
 
Reason for Addendum:  
[ ] Comment period changed - date:   
[X] Notified measure adopted - date: 6 June 2023  
[ ] Notified measure published - date:  
[X] Notified measure enters into force - date: 5 July 2023  
[ ] Text of final measure available from1:  
[ ] Notified measure withdrawn or revoked - date:  
Relevant symbol if measure re -notified:   
[ ] 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: Cleaning appliances (ICS: 97.080)  
This addendum concerns the notification of the Ministerial Decree No. 197 /2023 (2 pages, in Arabic) 
that gives the producers and importers twelve -month transitional period to abide by the Egyptian 
Standard ES 8057 "Energy efficiency of household electrical appliances Methods for measuring and 
calculating energy efficiency of vacuum cleaners" (17 pages, in Ara bic). 
This standard cancels and supersedes its last edition in 2017.  
It should be noted that the Ministerial Decree No.102/2019 (2 pages, in Arabic)which was formerly 
notified in G/TBT/N/EGY/173/Add.3 dated 15 May 2019 , mandated among others the earlier v ersion 
of this Standard.  
Worth mentioning is that this standard has been formulated according to National studies.  
Producers and importers are kept informed of any amendments in the Egyptian standard through 
the publication of administrative orders in the official gazette.  
 
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/173/Add.4  
 
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  Proposed date of adoption: 6 June 2023.  
Proposed date of entry into force: 5 July 2023  
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  
Tel: + (202) 22845528  
Fax: + (202) 22845504  
E-mail: eos@idsc.net.eg  /eos.tbt@eos.org.eg  
Website: http://www.eos.org.eg  
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