E3 - Equipment Energy Efficiency

The Applicant can be an importer, manufacturer or someone else with an appropriate connection to the supply of a particular product to the Australian or New Zealand market.

The Applicant is the company or organisation submitting product registration applications to the regulatory authorities. The Applicant is responsible for the applications they submit and holds the legal responsibility for the registration.

Agents registering on behalf of the Applicant should not list their own details in the Applicant information. However their details may be included in the administrative and technical contact sections of an application. The registering organisation must be listed in the Applicant details. We recommend that the Authorising Officer (see the definition below) be an officer within the Applicant’s organisation and not an agent.

Applicants submitting product registration applications to the GEMS Regulator may be based in Australia or overseas. For applications to the New Zealand Regulator, the organisation must be a business already registered in New Zealand.

A formal request to register a product under the GEMS Act.

The application has been assessed and approved by the Regulator and the product is now registered in the Energy Rating Product Registration System.

This is the person who is authorised by the Applicant (the company or organisation submitting the application) to make the application, manage the registration following approval and manage the Applicant ID account. This person is also known as the Account Manager. We strongly recommend that the Authorising Officer be from the Applicant organisation. This is so that the company or organisation has access to their registrations without having to go through a third party or agent.

A person who is approved by the Authorising Officer to represent the Authorising Officer. This person can be a third party or a company representative. Authorisation must be provided in writing. This person completes the application and assists the Administrator with the application and registration. For example, this person could be a compliance manager or an external consultant or agent.

Please note that Authorised Representatives are individuals and not referring agencies.

Authorised Representatives cannot use all functions of the Registration System. It is the Applicant’s responsibility to update this information if the Authorised Representatives change.

The administrative, technical and accounts payable contact people listed by the Applicant within an application or registration. It is the Applicant’s responsibility to update this information if the Contacts change.

A contact who is an employee or officer of the Applicant must be provided with each application submitted to the GEMS Regulator.

A group of two or more models that meet the ‘family of models’ requirements set out in the relevant Determination, and which may therefore be covered by a single registration.

Family requirements can encompass a broad range of factors, and are set with technological and other factors relevant to the particular GEMS product in mind. For example, most currently regulated products models must have the same brand, energy performance and ‘relevant’ physical characteristics (this is generally taken to mean physical characteristics that could affect energy performance, and may be different for different products) to be part of a family of models.

You should refer to the relevant Determination to check if family registrations are available for your product and, if so, what the requirements are.

A legislative instrument made under the GEMS Act in which the specific requirements for regulated products—including Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) and/or energy rating labelling requirements—are set out.

A GEMS Determination sets out the requirements for each product class, including which clauses in the relevant standard are legal requirements for the product—if applicable. It also establishes which version of the relevant standard is applicable.

Two GEMS products are the same model if:

• they have the same technical specifications (in relation to the extent to which the products comply with the requirements of the GEMS Act);
• they are supplied under the same brand or trademark (or have the same manufacturer if there is no brand or trademark); and
• there is a single unique identifier (e.g. model number) used to identify the products as being of that model.

(This is a summarised version of the definition of ‘model’. See subsection 12(2) of the GEMS Act for the full text of this definition)