F.No. 14(28)/2018-LEI Government of India Ministry of Commerce & Industry Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (Light Engineering Industry Division) Udyog Bhawan, New Delhi Dated: (0 May, 2018 To, (As per list attached) Subject: Draft Quality Control Order on Hand Blenders, Food Mixers and Instantaneous Water Heaters for use with LPG (Based on BIS Act, 2016) ~ regarding. 1 am directed to refer World Trade Organization (WTO) notifications no. GITBTIN/INDI78 and G/TBT/N/IND/79 tah dated 07.05.2018 (copy enclosed) on the above mentioned subject and to say that QCOs of Kitchen Appliances and Domestic Water Heater for use with LPG have been uploaded on the WTO website on 07.05.2018. You are requested to organize awareness and capacity building programmes to give wide publicity to these QCOs and to help the industry to prepare itself for the implementation of the QCOs. Encls. as above. erie —— Under Secretary to the Government of India Tele. No. 23061526 Email: binod,kumar52@nic.inWw iy w w) wi) wi) wii) Cc) a Shri Stw+Amit Mehta, Joint Secretary - CA, Department of Consumer Affairs, Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Krishi Bhawan, New Delhi ~ 110001 Email js-ca@nic.in ‘Smt. Shalini Prasad, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Power, Rafi Marg, Sansad Marg Area, New Delhi 110001 Email: as-mop@nic.in Ms. Alka Arora, Joint Secretary, MSME, Udyog Bhawan, New Delhi, Room No. ~ 1228 Email: js.sme@nic.in ‘Shri Sudhanshu Pandey, Joint Secretary, Department of Commerce, Udyog Bhawan, New Delhi Email: js tpd-doc@nic.in Director General, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), 9, Manak Bhawan, Zafar Marg, New Delhi ~ 110002 Email: da@bis.gov.in ‘Senior Manager ~ Electrical Laboratory, Consumer Education And Research Centre(CERC), *Suraksha Sankoo!’, Sarkhe}- Gandhinagar Highway, Thaltle, Anmedabad-380054. Email cere@cercindia org, Secretary! Excutive Secretary, All India Food Processors association (AIFPA), 208, Aurobindo Place Market, Hauz Khas, New Delhi-110016. Email -aifpa@vsni.net The Secretary General, Consumer Electronics & Appliances Manufacturers Association, (CEAMA),4/23, 4" Floor, WAVE, 1", Silver Tower, Plot No. D-6,Sector-18, Noida-201301(U.P.) Shri Amar Malik, Senior Engineer, Havells india Limited, Email: amar,malik@havells.com Shri $. Sundaramoorthy, Panasonic (CEAMA) Email: s.sundaramoorthy@m.,panasonic.comZ eyreriwytnoy78 a) WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION = 7 May 2018 (18-2787) 7 _ Page: 1/2 Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original: English NOTIFICATION ‘The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6 If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2): 2. Agency responsible: Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above: 3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ J, 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ }, othe 4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Instantaneous Domestic Water Heaters for use with Liquefied Petroleum Gas 5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Mini domestic water heater for use with Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Quality Control) Order, 2018 (1 page(s), in English) 6. Description of content: The Bureau of Indian Standards Domestic Water Heater for Use with Liquefied Petroleum Gas (Quality Control) Order, 2018 + Higher level of quality, reliability and consistency + Protection of environment + Health safety of Consumers 8. Relevant documents:To be published in the Gazette of India (available in English and Hindi) Proposed date of adoption: Yet to be decided Proposed date of entry into force: Come into force with effect from on the date of its publication in the official Gazette. 10. Final date for comments: 60 days from notification