I.

Supplier’s name or trade mark;

II.

Supplier’s model identifier, where ‘model identifier’ means the code, usually alphanumeric, which distinguishes a specific vacuum cleaner model from other models with the same trade mark or supplier’s name;

III.

The energy efficiency class as defined in Annex I; the head of the arrow containing the energy efficiency class of the vacuum cleaner shall be placed at the same height as the head of the arrow of the relevant energy efficiency class;

IV.

Average annual energy consumption, as defined in Annex VI;

V.

Dust re-emission class, determined in accordance with Annex I;

VI.

Carpet cleaning performance class, determined in accordance with Annex I;

VII.

Hard floor cleaning performance class, determined in accordance with Annex I;

VIII.

Sound power level, as defined in Annex VI.

I.

Supplier’s name or trade mark;

II.

Supplier's model identifier, where ‘model identifier’ means the code, usually alphanumeric, which distinguishes a specific vacuum cleaner model from other models with the same trade mark or supplier’s name;

III.

The energy efficiency class as defined in Annex I; the head of the arrow containing the energy efficiency class of the vacuum cleaner shall be placed at the same height as the head of the arrow of the relevant energy efficiency class;

IV.

Average annual energy consumption, as defined in Annex VI;

V.

Dust re-emission class, determined in accordance with Annex I;

VI.

Exclusion sign;

VII.

Hard floor cleaning performance class, determined in accordance with Annex I;

VIII.

Sound power level, as defined in Annex VI.

I.

Supplier's name or trade mark;

II.

Supplier's model identifier, where ‘model identifier’ means the code, usually alphanumeric, which distinguishes a specific vacuum cleaner model from other models with the same trade mark or supplier’s name;

III.

The energy efficiency class as defined in Annex I; the head of the arrow containing the energy efficiency class of the vacuum cleaner shall be placed at the same height as the head of the arrow of the relevant energy efficiency class;

IV.

Average annual energy consumption, as defined in Annex VI;

V.

Dust re-emission class, determined in accordance with Annex I;

VI.

Carpet cleaning performance class, determined in accordance with Annex I.

VII.

Exclusion sign;

VIII.

Sound power level, as defined in Annex VI.

(a)

The label shall be at least 75 mm wide and 150 mm high. Where the label is printed in a larger format, its content shall nevertheless remain proportionate to the specifications above.

(b)

The background shall be white.

(c)

Colours are coded as CMYK — cyan, magenta, yellow and black, following this example: 00-70-X-00: 0 % cyan, 70 % magenta, 100 % yellow, 0 % black.

(d)

The label shall fulfil all of the following requirements (numbers refer to the figure above):

Cleaning performance on carpet:

Cleaning performance on hard floor:

1.

The information in the product fiche of the vacuum cleaner shall be given in the following order and shall be included in the product brochure or other literature provided with the product:

2.

One fiche may cover a number of vacuum cleaner models supplied by the same supplier.

3.

The information contained in the fiche may be given in the form of a copy of the label, either in colour or in black and white. Where this is the case, the information listed in point 1 not already displayed on the label shall also be provided.

1.

The technical documentation referred to in Article 3 shall include:

2.

Where the information included in the technical documentation file for a particular vacuum cleaner model has been obtained by calculation on the basis of an equivalent vacuum cleaner, the technical documentation shall include details of such calculations and of tests undertaken by suppliers to verify the accuracy of the calculations undertaken. The technical information shall also include a list of all other equivalent vacuum cleaner models where the information was obtained on the same basis.

3.

The information contained in this technical documentation may be merged with the technical documentation provided in accordance with measures under Directive 2009/125/EC.

1.

The information referred to in Article 4(b) shall be provided in the following order:

2.

Where other information contained in the product information fiche is also provided, it shall be in the form and order specified in Annex III.

3.

The size and font in which the information referred in this Annex is printed or shown shall be legible.

(a)

‘hard floor test’ means a test of two cleaning cycles where the cleaning head of a vacuum cleaner operating at maximum suction setting passes over a wooden test plate test area with width equal to the cleaning head width and appropriate length, featuring a diagonally (45°) placed test crevice, where the time elapsed, electric power consumption and the relative position of the center of the cleaning head to the test area are continuously measured and recorded at an appropriate sample rate and where at the end of each cleaning cycle the mass decrease of the test crevice is appropriately assessed;

(b)

‘test crevice’ means a removable U-shaped insert with appropriate dimensions filled at the beginning of a cleaning cycle with appropriate artificial dust;

(c)

‘carpet test’ means a test with an appropriate number of cleaning cycles on a Wilton carpet test rig where the cleaning head of a vacuum cleaner operating at maximum suction setting passes over the test area with width equal to the cleaning head width and appropriate length, soiled with equally distributed and appropriately embedded test dust of appropriate composition, where the time elapsed, electric power consumption and the relative position of the center of the cleaning head to the test area are continuously measured and recorded at an appropriate sample rate and at the end of each cleaning cycle the mass increase of the appliance dust receptacle is appropriately assessed;

(d)

‘cleaning head width’ in m, at an accuracy of 3 decimal places, means the external maximum width of the cleaning head;

(e)

‘cleaning cycle’ means a sequence of 5 double strokes of the vacuum cleaner on a floor-specific test area (‘carpet’ or ‘hard floor’);

(f)

‘double stroke’ means one forward and one backward movement of the cleaning head in a parallel pattern, performed at a uniform test stroke speed and with a specified test stroke length;

(g)

‘test stroke speed’ in m/h means the appropriate cleaning head speed for testing, preferably realized with an electromechanical operator. Products with self-propelled cleaning heads shall try to come as close as possible to the appropriate speed, but a deviation is permitted when clearly stated in the technical documentation;

(h)

‘test stroke length’ in m means the length of the test area plus the cleaning head distance covered by the center of the cleaning head when moving over the appropriate acceleration zones before and after the test area;

(i)

‘dust pick up’ (dpu), at an accuracy of 3 decimal places, means the ratio of the mass of the artificial dust removed, determined for carpet through the mass increase of the appliance dust receptacle and for hard floor through the mass decrease of the test crevice, after a number of double strokes of the cleaning head, to the mass of artificial dust initially applied to a test area, for carpet corrected for the specific test conditions and for hard floor corrected for the length and positioning of the test crevice;

(j)

‘reference vacuum cleaner system’ means electrically operated laboratory equipment used to measure the calibrated and reference dust pick-up on carpets with given air related parameters to improve the reproducibility of test results;

(k)

‘rated input power’ in W means the electric input power declared by the manufacturer, whereby for appliances that are enabled to function also for other purposes than vacuum cleaning only the electric input power relevant to vacuum cleaning applies;

(l)

‘dust re-emission’ means the ratio, expressed as a percentage at an accuracy of 2 decimal places, of the number of all dust particles of a size from 0.3 to 10 μm emitted by a vacuum cleaner to the number of all dust particles of the same size range entering the suction inlet when fed with a specific amount of dust of that particle size range. The value includes not only dust measured at the vacuum cleaner outlet but also dust emitted elsewhere either from leaks, or generated by the vacuum cleaner;

(m)

‘sound power level’ means airborne acoustical noise emissions, expressed in dB(A) re 1 pW and rounded to the nearest integer.

for carpet vacuum cleaners:

for hard floor vacuum cleaners:

for general-purpose vacuum cleaners:

—

ASEc is the average specific energy consumption in Wh/m2 during carpet test, calculated as provided below;

—

ASEhf is the average specific energy consumption in Wh/m2 during hard floor test, calculated as provided below;

—

dpuc is the dust pick-up on carpet, determined in accordance with point 4 of this Annex;

—

dpuhf is the dust pick-up on hard floor, determined in accordance with point 4 of this Annex;

—

50 is the standard number of cleaning tasks per year;

—

87 is the standard dwelling surface to be cleaned in m2;

—

4 is the standard number of times that a vacuum cleaner passes over each point on the floor (two double strokes);

—

0,001 is the conversion factor from Wh to kWh;

—

1 is the standard dust pick-up;

—

0,20 is the standard difference between dust pick-up after five and after two double strokes.

—

P is the average power in W, at an accuracy of 2 decimal places, during the time in a cleaning cycle that the center of the cleaning head is moving over the test area;

—

NP is the average power equivalent in W, at an accuracy of 2 decimal places, of battery operated active nozzle, if any, of the vacuum cleaner, calculated as provided below;

—

t is the total time in hours, at an accuracy of 4 decimal places, in a cleaning cycle during which the centre of the cleaning head, i.e. a point halfway between the side, front and back edges of the cleaning head, is moving over the test area;

—

A is the surface area in m2, at an accuracy of 3 decimal places, passed over by the cleaning head in a cleaning cycle, calculated as 10 times the product of the head width and the appropriate length of test area. If a household vacuum cleaner has a head width of over 0,320 m, then the figure of 0,320 m shall be substituted for head width in this calculation.

—

E is the electricity consumption in Wh at an accuracy of 3 decimal places of the battery operated active nozzle of the vacuum cleaner necessary to return the initially fully charged battery to its originally fully charged state after a cleaning cycle;

—

tbat is the total time in hours, at an accuracy of 4 decimal places, in a cleaning cycle in which the battery operated active nozzle of the vacuum cleaner is activated, in accordance with manufacturer’s instructions;

—

dpum is the measured dust pick-up of the vacuum cleaner;

—

dpucal is the dust pick-up of the reference vacuum cleaner system measured when the test carpet was in original condition;

—

dpuref is the measured dust pick-up of the reference vacuum cleaner system.

1.

The Member State authorities shall test one single unit per model.

2.

The vacuum cleaner model shall be considered to comply with the applicable requirements if the values and classes on the label and in the product fiche correspond to the values in the technical documentation and if testing of the relevant model parameters listed in Table 4 shows compliance for all of those parameters.

3.

If the result referred to in point 2 is not achieved, the Member State authorities shall randomly select three additional units of the same model for testing. As an alternative, the three additional units selected may be of one or more different models which have been listed as equivalent vacuum cleaner in the manufacturer's technical documentation.

4.

The vacuum cleaner model shall be considered to comply with the applicable requirements if testing of the relevant model parameters listed in Table 4 shows compliance for all of those parameters.

5.

If the results referred to in point 4 are not achieved, the model and all equivalent vacuum cleaner models shall be considered not to comply with this Regulation.