Objectives
This Focus Area on Performance Specification provides a forum for experts and officials from the government, private sector and NGOs to collaboratively provide input to the process of rationalising performance specifications for CFLs. The aims of the Focus Area are:
to establish suitable criteria to be measured to enable the performance of CFLs to be rated and to reach consensus on these criteria with a number of market stakeholders to establish a suite of performance tiers for groups of these criteria that can be used as performance specifications by a number of market stakeholders and to reach consensus on these performance specifications and to establish a marking system that will enable various market actors to easily identify the performance of a specific product and to have this marking system adopted by the market.
Work to Date
There have been several phases leading to the development of the current proposals for Performance Specifications. In particular, the development of proposals for the key criteria to be included and, most recently, the initial proposals for the performance thresholds. These past work documents can be viewed by selecting the appropriate link below. To view the comments received related to these historical document and current proposals, please click here.
Date of Draft
Title
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October 2006
Second Proposals for Tiers of Performance and Marking System for CFLs
Future Work Plan
In line with previous commitments by the CFLI, an internationally acceptable set of Tiers of performance and marking system will be submitted to the IEC with the intention that these performance Tiers and marking system form the basis of a new IEC standard. Proposals are to be finalised in time for the IEC meeting in April 2007. This presents a challenging but achievable timeline for international agreement to be reached on Tiers of performance and a marking system. To meet this challenging timeline, the CFLI proposes the following incremental steps:
Objective
Target Completion Date
Presentation of “Second Proposals for Tiers of Performance and Marking System for CFLs” to the 5th CFL Stakeholder Forum in Washington DC
23/24 October 2006
All comments on proposals to be received
24 November 2006
Revised proposals issued
16 December 2006
All comments on revised proposals to be received
19 January 2007
Further revised proposals issued
2 February 2007
All comments on further revised proposals to be received
23 February 2007
Final proposals issued
1 March 2007
Final proposal made for submission to IEC laid before the 6th CFL Stakeholder Forum in Xiamen
Contact Points Facilitator: Steve Beletich, Steve Beletich Associates, Australia, E-mail: steve@beletich.com.au Participants: Contributions to the Focus Area are received from a range of organisations in the CFL arena, and all are listed in the CFL Initiative Page.
Performance Specifications 
to establish suitable criteria to be measured to enable the performance of CFLs to be rated and to reach consensus on these criteria with a number of market stakeholders 
