Law 2004-72 and Decree 2004-2145; Amended by Law 2009-07

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In the framework of the ENPI CBC programmes, including a privileged instrument of cooperation for the institutional capacity-building of ENPI countries, Tunisia decided to largely harmonize the product categories and label efficiency thresholds with those in place in the EU. Since September 2004, Tunisian law requires the display of an EU-style energy label for refrigerators, freezers, and refrigerator-freezers (with eight classes, the top one representing the recently added EU A+ and A++ classes) in a bilingual version (French and Arabic, and the numbers 1-8 indicating classes instead of letters). From January 2010 onwards, the lowest three energy classes (6,7 and 8) have been banned from the Tunisian market, followed in January 2011 7 with the banning of classes 5 and January 2012 class 4 has been likewise banned from the Tunisian market. See more