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ESMA extends deadline to register low voltage household appliances
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ABU DHABI - The manufacturers, distributors and suppliers of low voltage household electrical appliances have been given a six month lease of life, to comply with the standardisation requirements and mandatory registration of their products with the Emirates Authority for Standardisation and Metrology.
The mandatory registration and compliance programme, which was to go in to force at the start of the year in line with the decision of Authority's plan for the year has now been extended to May, after which action would be taken against unregistered products.
Engineer Mohammed Saleh Badri, Acting Director General of the Emirates Standardisation Metrology Authority or ESMA that regulates issues relating to quality and standardization of products, said the procedures and conditions of mandatory registration to trade have been explained to trade recently at seminars.
The acting chief said that the clarifications were made for products including electric water heaters and extension cords and sockets for domestic use, electric irons and microwave ovens. Other items that would include in the household items include clothes dryers, electric stoves, refrigerators, freezers, coolers and air conditioners.
The Authority officials at meeting in Dubai recently clarified all queries raised by the trade and the response was positive from those involved in implementing new standards from both the public and private sectors. The mandatory registrations of selected products in 2010 include retreated tires, cigarettes, cosmetics, toys, electrical low voltage appliances.
Commenting on the ESMA's efforts to register and regulate consumer goods and introduce its approved standards, Khalid Mattar, Chief Executive Officer of Global Minds, an economic consultancy in the capital, welcomed the move, which would not only wipe out fake products from the market but would regulate the sector in order to protect the rights of the consumers.
The Authority in the past few weeks had organised meetings with officials of the General Directorate of Traffic, Abu Dhabi, Fujairah, Sharjah and Dubai Police, and discussed future coordination in the area of registration and control of retreated tires along with Federal Customs Authority and customs authorities in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Fujairah beside Dubai Municipality.
The acting director general said that the ESMA has updated the Emirates Conformity Assessment or ECAS for mandatory registration for products locally manufactured or imported and issued last year three new requirements and regulation for registration of retreated tires, cigarettes and household appliances, In addition, to have finalised preparing requirements for registering cosmetics, tobacco for Shisha, Badri added that the Authority has completed its preparation for the implementation of the Regulation on the registration of TOYS products in cooperation with the Gulf Standardisation Organisation (GSO) within the GCC unified Conformity assessment scheme.
The ESMA would soon complete the energy efficiency labelling scheme, in line with UAE's strategy to foray into energy conservation by using energy efficient products.
By Haseeb Haider
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