Products covered: Heat pumps (ICS 27.080), Refrigerating technology (ICS 27.200)
This addendum concerns the notification of the Ministerial Decree No. 610 /2020 ( 4 pages, in Arabic) that gives the producers and importers a six-month transitional period to abide by the Egyptian Standard ES 5056-4 for "Refrigerating systems and heat pumps — Safety and environmental requirements — Part 4: Operation, maintenance, repair and recovery" (28 page(s), in Arabic)
It should be noted that the draft of this Egyptian standard was formerly notified in G/TBT/N/EGY/274 dated 5 October 2020.
Worth mentioning is that this standard is technically identical with ISO 5149-4:2014.
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.
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
