On 6 March 2026, the Energy Conservation (Amendment) Bill was introduced in Parliament to amend the Energy Conservation Act 2012 in order to extend Minimum Energy Performance Standards (“MEPS“) and the Mandatory Energy Labelling Scheme (“MELS“) to all Regulated Goods imported by end‑users for their own use.
This follows positive feedback received on the proposals in an earlier public consultation on this topic.
The consultation closed on 25 January 2026. For details, please refer to our December 2025-January 2026 NewsBytes article titled “Proposals to Impose Energy Efficiency Requirements on Regulated Goods Imported by End-users“.
Key Proposed Changes
Regulated Goods imported for own use will be subjected to similar MEPS/MELS compliance as those intended for supply in Singapore. These Regulated Goods must:
- be registered with NEA (subject to applicable fees);
- meet MEPS (in accordance with prescribed tests and test conditions). The importing company or individual must produce prescribed test reports to demonstrate compliance when registering the product for own use; and
- be labelled with an Energy Label (where required).
Respondents were generally supportive of the proposed amendments. NEA discussed the feedback received, summarised below:
- Stronger regulation of online platforms. NEA indicated that it would study appropriate measures to require online platform operators not to offer non‑compliant Regulated Goods in Singapore.
- Exempt imported Regulated Goods meant for re-export from MEPS/MELS requirements.
NEA did not adopt the following suggestions: (i) to extend coverage of proposed changes to lights, and (ii) to limit end users to purchase from local suppliers only.
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