EEPLIANT3 Press Release Interim Edition - 2nd Advisory Board and Management Team Meetings

On 9 and 10 February 2021, the EEPLIANT3 Concerted Action hosted its second Advisory Board (AB) and Management Team (MT) virtual meetings respectively. Reviewing the progress of the project activities and reflecting on the identified challenges and issues to date were at the core of the agendas and the discussions during the two events. Each event was attended by more than 45 participants from the European Commission, European Market Surveillance Authorities (MSAs), industry and environmental associations (joining only the AB meeting).

Both meetings triggered numerous follow-up consultations aiming to further improve the effectiveness and the efficiency of EU Market Surveillance on Ecodesign and Energy Labelling.

Discover more on the main topics and issues discussed during the two meetings in this Press Release published in English  and French . 

EEPLIANT3 1st Newsletter, November 2020

Eighteen months after the launch of the EEPLIANT3 Concerted Action and while still navigating through the COVID-19 health crisis, it is time for an update on the progress of the project activities. This edition of our Newsletter provides a snapshot of the key facts and the preliminary findings across all Work Packages to date. Under this Action, 29 partners from 20 EU Member States and Turkey verify whether products sold in the European Single Market follow the requirements laid out in the ecodesign and energy labelling regulations.
Six product sectors are targeted: air conditioners and comfort fans, household tumble driers, water heaters and hot water storage tanks, ventilation units, lighting products, and local space heaters — the last two activities kick start in 2021. EEPLIANT3 stands out not only for promoting shared EU-wide inspection procedures and joint sampling and testing programmes, but also for addressing market surveillance challenges hand-to-hand with the key stakeholders of each sector, including the Ecodesign and Energy Labelling AdCos.

Discover more about the roadmap and the main activities undertaken in this first newsletter, published in: Bulgarian  ; Croatian  ; Czech  ; Danish  ; English  ; French  ; German  ; Italian  ; Latvian  ; Lithuanian  ; Spanish  ; Swedish  ; Turkish 

EEPLIANT2 Final Press Release

The EEPLIANT2 Joint Action publishes its Final Press Release showcasing the project’s outputs and results.
Through the joint monitoring, verification and enforcement activities carried out by the Consortium (17 Market Surveillance Authorities, one national agency and PROSAFE) the EU-funded project revealed high levels of non-compliance of the energy efficiency requirements provided by the EU Energy Labelling regulation and Ecodesign directives.
Get in touch with the team for more details and information! Please also follow us on @EEPLIANT.

The Final Press Release is published in: Bulgarian  ; English  ; Finnish  ; French  ; Irish  ; Latvian  ; Lithuanian  ; Swedish 

EEPLIANT2 Fourth Newsletter

EEPLIANT2 is funded by the European Union (EU) under the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme. This Action is a unique undertaking that addresses the challenge of building a common approach to the market surveillance of Energy Labelling and Ecodesign within sixteen EU Member States.
The great added value of EEPLIANT2 comes from, on one hand, the shared inspection procedures and joint sampling and testing programme, and, on the other hand, the harmonisation of the evaluation of results and enforcement actions taken by the seventeen market surveillance authorities (MSAs).
Three product sectors are targeted: household refrigerating appliances, professional refrigerating cabinets and network standby with the goal to ensure that non-compliant products are identified and withdrawn from the EU Single Market. The project is coordinated by PROSAFE, a non-profit NGO based in Brussels.

Discover more about the main results achieved in the EEPLIANT2 Action in this fourth newsletter published in: English -   ; Bulgarian -   ; French -   ; Latvian -   ; Swedish - 

For further details, visit our partners website:

• Latvia - Consumer Rights Protection Centre (CRPC)
• Luxembourg - Institute of Standardisation, Accreditation, Safety and Quality of Products and Services (ILNAS)

EEPLIANT3 First Press Release

The largest concerted Market Surveillance Action on EU product efficiency legislation ever funded by the European Union (EU) - EEPLIANT3 - has been officially launched with a conference held on 19 June 2019 in Brussels, at PROSAFE.

29 partners from 20 EU Member States and Turkey joined forces to cooperate in EEPLIANT3, the EU-funded sequel of the EEPLIANT1 and EEPLIANT2 projects. It aims at improving the implementation of EU energy labelling and ecodesign regulations and the operation of the EU Single market by identifying free-riding non-compliant products to the benefit of the European consumer and law-abiding manufacturers. The project will cooperate closely with the two Administrative Cooperation Groups (ADCO) on energy labelling and ecodesign, with each project Activity (Work Package) being led by a Market Surveillance Authority (MSA) and coordinated by one of three facilitating organisations: PROSAFE, Austrian Energy Agency and vores bureau.

Discover more about the main activities undertaken and foreseen in the EEPLIANT3 Action in this first Press Release published in: Bulgarian  ; English ;  German  ; Italian  ; Lithuanian  ; Turkish