WTO notification · TBT
KuwaitProposed measure, open for comments
Official title
Switches for household and similar fixed electrical installations – Part 2-4: Particular requirements – Isolating switches
Kuwait notified this proposed TBT measure to the WTO on 6 October 2026. Comments are open until 5 December 2026.
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All products fall under scope of ' Switches for household and similar fixed electrical installations – Part 2-4: Particular requirements – Isolating switches '
Comments on a notification go from government to government. If this measure affects your exports, send your comments to your country's WTO TBT enquiry point before 5 December 2026, quoting the document symbol G/TBT/N/KWT/778 and how the measure affects your products. Your enquiry point forwards them to Kuwait.
Find your country's enquiry point on WTO ePing (opens in a new tab)Clause 1 of IEC 60669-1:2017 applies except as follows. Replacement of the first paragraph with the following: This part of IEC 60669 applies to manually operated general purpose isolating switches with a rated voltage not exceeding 440 V and a rated current not exceeding 125 A, intended for household and similar fixed electrical installations, either indoors or outdoors. Replacement of the fifth dash of the third paragraph: – a monophase circuit for motor load with a rated current up to 10 A and a power factor not less than 0,6. NOTE 101 Isolating switches are designed for overvoltage category III and used in environment of pollution degree 2 according to IEC 60664-1.
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