Rule Concerning Disclosures Regarding Energy Consumption and Water Use of Certain Home Appliances and Other Products Required Under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (``Appliance Labeling Rule'')

The Federal Trade Commission (``Commission'') amends the package labeling requirements for lamp products under the Commission's Appliance Labeling Rule (``Rule'') in response to a petition from Osram Sylvania, Ltd. (``Petitioner''). The Petitioner requests that it be allowed to distribute to consumers, through retailers, lamp products without individual packaging or labeling, where the bulk shipping cartons include the disclosures currently required by the Rule and where retailers display the lamp products for sale to consumers in the bulk shipping cartons. The interpretative amendment the Commission adopts clarifies that manufacturers and private labelers of lamp products that are not packaged for individual retail sale may meet the labeling disclosure requirements of the Rule by making the disclosures on labeling on the bulk shipping carton, where the bulk shipping carton is used to display the lamps for retail sale.