Vacuum Cleaners
EEPLIANT4 Work Package 6: Vacuum Cleaners
Products and Legislations in scope
This Work Package covers Vacuum Cleaners. The MSAs will undergo compliance verifications checks against the following legislations
- Regulation (EU) No 666/2013 with regard to ecodesign requirements for vacuum cleaners;
- Regulation (EU) 2016/2282 with regard to the use of tolerances in verification procedures.
Objectives
- Surveying the state of compliance in the internal market for vacuum cleaners;
- Identifying and dealing with non-compliant products, ensuring that products are brought into conformity or withdrawn from the market;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
8 Market Surveillance Authorities (MSAs) and 2 other governmental organisation are part of this Work Package. They are from 9 Countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Poland, and Turkey (as associated partner).