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Efficient and safe hot-water boilers
Efficient and safe hot-water boilers
Efficient and safe hot-water boilers
Hot-water boilers must meet the EU’s ecodesign requirements.
It sets out the energy efficiency* requirements for new hot water heaters or ‘boilers’ fired by liquid or gaseous fuels.
The directive applies to boilers with an output of no less than 4 kW and no more than 400 kW, specifically:
It does not apply to:
Standardisation and the ‘CE’ marking
Any boiler manufactured in accordance with harmonised European standards should conform to the essential requirements set out in the directive. An assessment before affixing the CE conformity marking is carried out by:
Ecodesign
* Energy efficiency: using less energy to provide the same service, i.e. less heating energy to maintain the same temperature.
* Cogeneration: the simultaneous production of electricity and heat, both of which are used.
* Space heater: a device, equipped with one or more heat generators, that provides heat to a water-based central heating system to keep an indoor space at an even temperature.
* Combination heater: a space heater also designed to provide hot drinking or sanitary water which is connected to an external supply of drinking or sanitary water.
For more information, see ‘Heaters’on the European Commission's website.
Council Directive 92/42/EEC of 21 May 1992 on efficiency requirements for new hot-water boilers fired with liquid or gaseous fuels
Act |
Entry into force |
Deadline for transposition in the Member States |
Official Journal |
Directive 92/42/EEC |
3.6.1992 |
31.12.1992 |
Amending acts |
Entry into force |
Deadline for transposition in the Member States |
Official Journal |
Directive 93/68/EEC |
2.8.1993 |
1.7.1994 |
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Directive 2008/28/EC |
21.3.2008 |
– |
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Regulation (EU) No 813/2013 |
26.9.2013 |
– |
Successive amendments and corrections to Directive 92/42/EEC have been incorporated in the basic text. This consolidated version is for reference purposes only.
Directive 2010/31/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 May 2010 on the energy performance of buildings (OJ L 153, 18.6.2010, pp. 13–35)
Directive 2012/27/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 on energy efficiency, amending Directives 2009/125/EC and 2010/30/EU and repealing Directives 2004/8/EC and 2006/32/EC (OJ L 315, 14.11.2012, pp. 1–56)
last update 22.10.2015