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Overview Ecodesign
The Ecodesign Directive aims at setting mandatory minimum requirements for individual product groups. Whereas the directive only sets the frame, product group specific implementing measures (so far without exception regulations) are elaborated in a subsequent process, in case no self-regulatory initiative (SRI) has been presented by the industry.
After a product group has been selected and listed in the working plan, the next steps to obligatory regulations are as follows:
- Compiling background data in preparatory study
- Working Document drafted by the European Commission, discussion in the Consultation Forum; depending on the development of the discussions, draft documents can be revised several times (only the most recent version is linked below)
- Draft Implementing Measure (voted by the Regulatory Committee)
- The draft regulation is sent to the EU-Parliament for scrutiny
- Mandatory regulation published in the Official Journal of the European Union
| Product groups | Preparatory Study | Working document / Consultation Forum | Regulatory Committee | EU-Parliament Scrutiny | Regulation / SRI* |
Requirements mandatory from |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lot- Simple Set-Top Boxes | Completed | Reg. 107/2009 | 25.02.2010 | |||
| Lot 1 Boilers and combiboilers | Reg. 813/2013 | 26.09.2015 | ||||
| Lot 2 Water heaters | Reg. 814/2013 | 26.09.2015 | ||||
| Lot 3 PCs (Desktops and Laptops) | Reg. 617/2013 | 01.07.2014 | ||||
| Lot 3 Displays | Working document | |||||
| Lot 4 Imaging Equipment | SRI* | |||||
| Lot 5 Consumer Electronics: TV | Working document |
Reg. 642/2009Amendm. 801/2013 | 07.01.2010 | |||
| Lot 6 Standby and off-mode losses | Reg. 1275/2008Amendm. 801/2013 | 07.01.2010 | ||||
| Lot 7 Battery chargers and external power supplies | Review study |
Working document |
Reg. 278/2009 | 27.04.2010 | ||
| Lot 8 Office lighting | Reg. 245/2009Amendm. 347/2010 | 13.04.2010 | ||||
| Lot 9 Street lighting | Reg. 245/2009Amendm. 347/2010 | 13.04.2010 | ||||
| Lot 10 Room air conditioning | Reg. 206/2012 | 01.01.2013 | ||||
| Lot 10 Comfort Fans | Reg. 206/2012 | 01.01.2013 | ||||
| Lot 10 Residential Ventilation | Reg. 1253/2014 | 01.01.2016 | ||||
| Lot 11 Electric motors | Reg. 640/2009Amendm. 4/2014 | 12.08.2009 | ||||
| Lot 11 Circulators | Reg. 641/2009Amendm. 622/2012 | 01.01.2013 | ||||
| Lot 11 Fans | Reg. 327/2011 | 01.01.2013 | ||||
| Lot 11 Water pumps | Reg. 547/2012 | 01.01.2013 | ||||
| Lot 12 Commercial refrigerators and freezers | Working document | |||||
| Lot 13 Domestic refrigerators and freezers | Reg. 643/2009 | 01.07.2010 | ||||
| Lot 14 Domestic dishwashers | Reg. 1016/2010 | 01.12.2011 | ||||
| Lot 14 Domestic washing machines | Reg. 1015/2010 | 01.12.2011 | ||||
| Lot 15 Solid fuel boilers | Reg. 1189/2015 | 10.08.2015 | ||||
| Lot 16 Household tumble driers | Reg. 932/2012 | 01.11.2013 | ||||
| Lot 17 Vacuum cleaners | Reg. 666/2013 | 01.09.2014 | ||||
| Lot 18 Complex set-top boxes | SRI* | 01.07.2010 | ||||
| Lot 19 Domestic lighting part I non-directional lamps | Reg. 244/2009Amendm. 859/2009 | 01.09.2009 | ||||
| Lot 19 Domestic lighting part II directional lamps | Reg. 1194/2012 | 01.09.2013 | ||||
| Lot 20 Solid fuel local space heaters | Reg. 1185/2015 | 10.08.2015 | ||||
| Lot 20 Local space heaters | Reg. 1188/2015 | 10.08.2015 | ||||
| Lot 21 Central heating products using hot air to distribute heat | Working document | Draft Regulation | ||||
| Lot 22 Domestic and commercial ovens | Reg. 66/2014 | 20.02.2015 | ||||
| Lot 23 Domestic and commercial hobs and grills | Reg. 66/2014 | 20.02.2015 | ||||
| Lot 24 Professional washing machines, dryers and dishwasher | Working document | |||||
| Lot 25 Non-tertiary coffee machines | see Reg. 801/2013 | 01.01.2015 | ||||
| Lot 26 Networked standby losses of energy using products | Reg. 801/2013 | 01.01.2015 | ||||
| Lot 27 Uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) | ||||||
| Lot 28 Wastewater pumps | ||||||
| Lot 29 Clean water pumps (larger than those under Lot 11) | ||||||
| Lot 30 Motors and drives (outside scope of Regulation 640/2009) | Working document | |||||
| Lot 31 Compressors | Working document | |||||
| Lot 32 Windows | ||||||
| Lot 33 Smart appliances | ||||||
| Lot 37 Lighting systems | ||||||
| ENTR Medical imaging equipment | Draft SRI* | |||||
| ENTR Lot 1 Professional refrigerated storage cabinets | Reg. 1095/2015 | 01.07.2015 | ||||
| ENTR Lot 2 Transformers | Reg. 548/2014 | 01.07.2015 | ||||
| ENTR Lot 3 Sound and imaging equipment | SRI* | |||||
| ENTR Lot 4 Industrial and laboratory furnaces and ovens | Working document | |||||
| ENTR Lot 5 Machine tools | Draft SRI* | |||||
| ENTR Lot 6 Air-conditioning and ventilation systems | Reg. 1253/2014 | 01.01.2016 | ||||
| ENTR Lot 7 Steam boilers | ||||||
| ENTR Lot 8 Power Cables | ||||||
| ENTR Lot 9 Enterprise Servers | ||||||
| JRC Taps and showers | ||||||
* SRI = Self-regulatory initiative (Voluntary agreement)