The Federal Commerce Fee has issued supplemental proposed amendments to its Amplifier Rule to assist customers make direct comparisons of house leisure amplifiers.
The Amplifier Rule, formally often called the Rule Regarding Energy Output Claims for Amplifiers Utilized in House Leisure Merchandise, regulates energy output claims for house leisure amplifiers so customers can extra simply examine merchandise earlier than buying. It was enacted by the FTC in 1974 in response to amplifier ads that relied on broadly disparate and, at occasions, misleading testing strategies, leaving customers with out a strategy to reliably store for amplifiers. The Rule was final reviewed and revised in 2008.
In December 2020, the FTC issued an advance discover of proposed rulemaking looking for feedback concerning public assist for the rule and proposed modifications or modifications the FTC ought to contemplate, as a part of its routine regulatory assessment. After evaluating the feedback r, in July 2022, the Fee issued a discover of proposed rulemaking looking for further feedback on standardizing sure check circumstances for measuring amplifier energy output and in addition on the parameters of customers’ regular use of multichannel house theater amplifiers.
After evaluating the feedback acquired on these and different points, the FTC has now accepted a supplemental Federal Register discover proposing amending the rule to require uniform check circumstances for measuring amplifier energy output; enhance differentiation between energy output disclosures that adjust to the rule’s check circumstances and people that don’t; and modernize and make clear language within the rule associated to those modifications. Moreover, the Fee has proposed formalizing its prior steering on making use of the rule to multichannel amplifiers.
The Fee vote approving publication of a supplemental discover of proposed rulemaking asserting the amendments was 3-0. It is going to be revealed within the Federal Register shortly. Written feedback have to be acquired inside 60 days of the date the discover is revealed. Feedback may be filed electronically at https://www.laws.gov.
The lead FTC workers member on this matter is Hong Park, an legal professional within the FTC’s Enforcement Division.
