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Act No. 18 of 2008
Date-birth: 2008-10-14 History-Hjri: 1429-10-14
Published as: 2008-10-14
Section: A law.
President
Based on the Constitution
As approved by the People's Assembly at its meeting held on the date of 8-10-1429 A.H., at 8-10-2008, I shall issue the following:
Section I
Definitions.
Article / 1 /
The following words and expressions are intended wherever they are set forth in this law. The law is the law of the energy efficiency standards for electrical appliances in the domestic and commercial sectors and the service.
Minister of Electricity
Ministry of Electricity
Center, National Center for Energy Research.
Board of directors of the National Energy Research Centre.
The energy efficiency standard is the foundation that determines the optimal need for electrical preprocessing from electrical power.
The energy sticker is a media label attached to electrical devices that refers to the energy consumption together of the device.
Energy efficiency means less energy consumption at the highest possible performance of the device.
The distributor is the natural and legal person who sells electrical appliances.
The supplier is the natural and legal person who imports the devices that are the subject of this law or those who have assets in Syria or those who are doing marketing for it in the Syrian market.
The factory is the natural and legal person that manufactures the devices that are the subject of this law.
The technical specifications card means the card that contains information about the product and knowledge in the Syrian standard specifications for electrical appliances issued by the relevant bodies and the Syrian Arab standards.
The description is the Syrian standard specifications for electrical devices issued by the Syrian Arab Specification and Standards Authority.
The electrical equipment is the subject of this law, it is the fridge-the air conditioning-the washing machine, the lighting, and others.
Part two.
Objectives of law
Article 2 /
The law is meant to ...
a/To raise the energy efficiency of electrical appliances used in the domestic, commercial and service sectors by applying energy efficiency standards to all equipment used in Syria.
/To contribute to meeting sustainable development requirements under the clean development mechanism.
c/Enhance the competitive edge of domestically produced devices and imported devices.
(d) Reducing the negative environmental impacts of electric power generation.
Article 3 /
The law does not apply to the following cases.
a/equipment sticker for safety and safety instructions during operation and use.
b/devices whose production ceased upon the entry into force of this Act.
c/The devices placed in circulation prior to the operation of this Act are the devices already sold and put in use by consumers.
Section III
Energy efficiency and energy adhesions standard
Article 4 /
All devices offered in the Syrian market should not exceed their annual consumption of electric power, according to the nature of each device and according to what is defined by its own description.
Article 5 /
If they exist on the device shown by the supplier, manufacturer, or distributor, the energy is to achieve the energy efficiency standard and show the power of the energy device compared to the rest of the devices displayed according to the energy categories shown in the adhesion and the knowledge in the description.
Section IV
Responsibilities
Article 6 /
Responsibilities of manufacturers, suppliers and distributors.
a/The supplier and manufacturer must establish a database that includes the necessary technical information and the documents granted to him from the centre necessary to verify the accuracy and accuracy of the contents of the energy efficiency spit and must retain such information for five years after the production of the latest model of the device for the purposes of Inspection.
b) All manufacturers and suppliers that put the issue of this law into the Syrian market are bound to comply with the following procedures.
1/Obtain the energy adhesion and technical specifications card in accordance with the provisions of this Law.
2/Put the adhesions prominently and clearly on all the devices produced by him and distributed in the Syrian market and determines the location of the adhesion to each device according to the description of the description.
3/Provide the technical specifications card in accordance with the provisions of this Act within all product releases.
4/In the absence of product-specific bulletins on the plant, provide the energy and technical specifications with the product in other ways and the card must in any case be compatible with the provisions of this law.
5/take full responsibility for the validity of the data contained in the energy and the technical specifications provided by him in accordance with the documents granted to him by the Centre.
c/The factory has to submit all data related to the energy and the technical specifications card to the investigating workers in the course of their work assigned to them.
d/On the supplier and prior to obtaining the necessary import leave, its equipment shall have one of the first three grades of the energy adhesion according to the description.
(e) Distribuers who submit to the devices the subject of this law in the Syrian market shall not deal with the devices that violate the conditions stipulated in this law and do not have the power to be attached to the energy adhesion.
Section V
Law enforcement and centre functions
Article 7 /
The Centre is responsible for the application of this law.
and to the bodies listed below.
1/Syrian Arab Specification and Standards Authority.
2/Industrial testing and research centre.
3/General Directorate of Customs.
4/Chambers of industry and commerce in the governorates.
5/Internal trade directorates and industry directorates in the governorates.
Within the limits of their respective functions and competencies, they will respond to the requests of the Centre in the implementation of the provisions of this Law.
Article 8 /
In applying this law, the center will be responsible for the following tasks.
(a) Development and development of energy efficiency standards and the issuance of energy adhesion to the devices in question with the stakeholders.
b. Control of the results achieved in the implementation of this law and its impact on the sale of new devices and the amount of their energy consumption by reviewing the standards and efficiency of energy consumption and assisting in the application of new technologies to reduce energy consumption for the devices put forward in the market.
c/Work to create a stable future policy enabling the market players -- suppliers -- consumers -- consumers -- environmentalists and the Consumer Protection Society to self-implement this law.
Section VI
Contraventions
Article 9 /
a/. 1/Any person found guilty of a failure to agree with the information contained in the energy sticker on the classification, consumption and volume shall be punished with a fine of 50,000 Syrian pounds and in the event that the offence is repeated, the fine becomes 200,000 Syrian pounds and in case of repetition. The violation, for the third time, becomes a fine of 500,000 Syrian pounds in addition to the cancellation of the industrial or commercial license of the offending entity according to its nature.
2/Any person found guilty of a foul position in the place not specified shall be punished by a fine of twenty-five thousand Syrian pounds, and in case the violation is repeated, the fine will be doubled to 50,000 Syrian pounds.
3/The factory, supplier or distributor, which is proven guilty of violating the circulation of devices, does not carry a penalty of 50 thousand Syrian pounds, and if the violation is repeated, the fine becomes 100,000 Syrian pounds, and if the violation is repeated for the third time, the violation becomes 200,000 Syrian pounds. In addition to the cancellation of the industrial or commercial license of the offending entity, according to its nature.
4. Any person found guilty of non-conformity with the applicable energy efficiency standard shall be punished by a fine of twenty-five thousand Syrian pounds and in case the violation is repeated, the fine will be doubled to 50,000 Syrian pounds.
b. Taking into account paragraph (a) above, the perpetrator of any other offence contrary to the provisions of this Act shall be fined between 50 and 100,000 Syrian pounds, which shall be determined by the Minister upon the proposal of the Minister upon the proposal of the Council and in the case of a repeat of the offence, double the fine of each offence.
c/Specifies the time interval for repeating the offense at least one month from the date of the first violation.
Article 10 /
(a) The Minister shall issue a decision in which the personnel assigned to investigate the offences are referred to as the subject of this law and, prior to the direct action of their work, to perform an oath before the rudimentary judge of whom the status of their duty is followed by the following text.
??? I swear to God, to do my job with honesty and complete secrecy, to take the path that is necessary and to respect the laws and regulations that are in force and to abide by their provisions in the exercise of my duties and my business."
b/On the staff above and when regulating the identification of the type, time and place of the offence committed and that the octopus shall have a probative force until proven otherwise.
(c) The employed persons and during official working hours are entitled to enter industrial facilities, warehouses and commercial shops and take the necessary samples to give their owners a fundamentalist receipt to be equipped with special cards issued by the Centre.
Article 11
The amounts obtained from fines imposed on manufacturers, suppliers and distributors as a result of their violation of the provisions of this Law in accordance with Article 9 of this Law shall be transferred to the State Treasury.
Section VII
Law enforcement
Article 12 /
A period of six months from the date of the operation of the law shall be granted for the circulation of devices that increase energy consumption from the energy efficiency standard subject to the operation of this law and shall be granted a period of six months when this standard is amended to be applied according to the provisions of this law and after such a time limit is prohibited. The circulation of these devices except that proves that they were made prior to the expiration of the deadline, whereas the imported devices are directly applicable to the law.
Article 13 /
An amendment to the energy efficiency standard is reported through advertising in official and local newspapers and is considered as reporting to each of the relevant issues.
Article 14 /
Executive instructions for the provisions of this Act shall be issued by decision of the Minister of Electricity on the proposal of the Council.
Article 15 /
This law is published in the Official Journal and is considered to be effective six months after the date of publication.
Damascus in 1410-1429 A.H., 41-0-2008, is my birth.
President
Bashar al-Assad
Lawyer Naam Al-Masri
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