Refrigerating Appliances (household and refrigerators with direct sales function)
EEPLIANT4 Work Package 2: Refrigerating appliances
Products and Legislations in scope
This Work Package covers household refrigerating appliances and refrigerators with direct sales function, and it will undergo compliance verifications checks against the following legislations:
- Regulation (EU) 2019/2016 with regard to energy labelling of refrigerating appliances;
- Regulation (EU) 2019/2019 laying down ecodesign requirements for refrigerating appliances;
- Regulation (EU) 2019/2018 with regard to energy labelling of refrigerating appliances with a direct sales function;
- Regulation (EU) 2019/2024 laying down ecodesign requirements for refrigerating appliances with a direct sales function;
- Regulation (EU) 2021/341 with regard to ecodesign requirements for servers and data storage products, electric motors and variable speed drives, refrigerating appliances, light sources and separate control gears, electronic displays, household dishwashers, household washing machines and household washer-dryers and refrigerating appliances with a direct sales function
- Regulation (EU) 518/2014 with regard to labelling of energy-related products on the internet.
Objectives
- Surveying the state of compliance in the internal market for refrigerating appliances;
- Identifying and dealing with non-compliant products, ensuring that products are brought into conformity or withdrawn from the market;
- Reducing the electricity bills of consumers, thereby improving the wellbeing of European consumers/end-users;
- Reducing unfair competition resulting from the presence of non-compliant products on the market;
- Raising awareness among economic operators (as defined in Regulation (EU) 2019/1020) and other concerned stakeholders about the problems identified;
- Raising the profile of EU market surveillance in general.
Participants
11 Market Surveillance Authorities (MSAs) and 1 governemental organisation are part of this Work Package. They are from 9 Countries: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal, Sweden, and Turkey (as associated partner).
