Work Package 7 – Air Conditioners

Work Package Leader: Ministry of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Crafts (DIRH) - Croatia
Work Package Coordinator: AEA

Scope and Objectives

The Work Packages carries out document inspection, screen testing and full scale testing of Air Conditioners and Comfort Fans covered by the recent eco-design and energy labelling regulations. Individual models will be selected for verification on a high risk basis, and with the aim to cover the relevant market share in individual countries and across the EU.
The specific actions could include split air conditioners, ducted air conditioners and Comfort fans.

The central objectives of the Work Package are:

• Assessment and use of screening methods to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of market surveillance actions;
• Checking whether the product model has been registered in the EU energy labelling product registration database EPREL and if the necessary documents are uploaded;
• Checking product compliance based on document inspection;
• Checking product compliance based on product testing;
• Checking compliance for online labelling (dealers’ obligation);
• Checking the presence of mandatory product information on manufacturers web page;
• Feedback and recommendations from experiences with document inspection and product testing to support the further development of standards and legislation. Identification of circumvention issues;
• Impact assessment for the action.

47 product models are expected to be tested, excluding the possible triple testing foreseen for about 20% of the samples

EU Legislation – Energy Labels & Eco-design

The action will be based on the EU regulation (EU) No 206/2012 for ecodesign, (EU) No 626/2011 for energy labelling, and EU regulation for labelling of energy-related products on the internet (EU)518/2014.

Work Plan

• Setting the focus of the action;
• Product screening to enhance the efficiency of the action;
• Document inspection;
• Inspection of online labels and product information stored in the EPREL database;
• Product testing;
• Enforcement measures;
• Impact assessment;
• Digest of issues from inspection and testing.

Participants

10 Market Surveillance Authorities from the following 10 countries: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, and Sweden.