Energy-efficiency labelling of office equipment

 

SUMMARY OF:

Regulation (EU) No 174/2013 — an energy-efficiency labelling programme for office equipment

WHAT WAS THE AIM OF THE REGULATION?

The regulation established rules for the introduction of the European Energy Star programme which was a voluntary energy labelling scheme adopted jointly between the United States and the European Union to co-ordinate energy labelling of office equipment and promote the manufacture of energy-efficient equipment. The agreement expired on 20 February 2018.

KEY POINTS

The Energy Star programme contributed to the Union´s energy-efficiency targets in Directive 2012/27/EU, and was coordinated with the mandatory EU energy labelling rules, as well as with voluntary schemes such as the EU Ecolabel award scheme.

This coordination included the exchange of evidence and the setting of common levels of specifications and requirements across the different schemes. Other existing and new voluntary energy-efficiency labelling schemes for office equipment products in EU countries co-existed with the Energy Star programme.

Applicants

Since the EU-US agreement expired, new applications to the European Commission for the participation in the scheme to display the Energy Start logo on poducts and promotional material are not possible any more. Participants who previously qualified products through the European Union will only be able to have products certified as ENERGY STAR compliant through the US ENERGY STAR program (provided their models are available in the US and/or Canada, Switzerland or Taiwan, or, in Japan and labelled as a result of certification through the Japanese ENERGY STAR Program).

Products that were only self-certified under the EU ENERGY STAR Programme can keep the logo on the product and on the packaging until exhaustion of stocks. No new advertisement shall use the logo and it shall be eliminated by websites exhibiting it.

Promotion of high energy-efficient products in the EU

High energy-efficient performance for office equipment, creation of new jobs and market opportunities for manufacturers are now promoted in the EU in particular by the Ecodesign Directive 2009/125/EC, the Energy Labelling Regulation (EU) 2017/1369 and the Energy Efficiency Directive 2012/27/EU.

WHEN DOES THIS REGULATION APPLY

Regulation (EU) No 174/2013[1] amended Regulation (EC) No 106/2008 and was applicable until 20 February 2018.

BACKGROUND

For more information, see:

• Energy Star Programme (European Commission)
• Energy-efficient products (European Commission).

MAIN DOCUMENT

Regulation (EU) No 174/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 February 2013 amending Regulation (EC) No 106/2008 on a Community energy-efficiency labelling programme for office equipment Text with EEA relevance (OJ L 63, 6.3.2013, pp. 1-4)

RELATED DOCUMENTS

Regulation (EU) 2017/1369 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2017 setting a framework for energy labelling and repealing Directive 2010/30/EU (OJ L 198, 28.7.2017, pp. 1-23)

Council Decision 2013/107/EU of 13 November 2012 on the signing and conclusion of the Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the European Union on the coordination of energy-efficiency labelling programmes for office equipment Text with EEA relevance (OJ L 63, 6.3.2013, pp. 5-80)

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)

See consolidated version.

Regulation (EC) No 66/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2009 on the EU Ecolabel (OJ L 27, 30.1.2010, pp. 1-19)

See consolidated version.

Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 establishing a framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements for energy-related products (OJ L 285, 31.10.2009, pp. 10-35)

See consolidated version.

Regulation (EC) No 106/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 January 2008 on a Community energy-efficiency labelling programme for office equipment (recast version) (OJ L 39, 13.2.2008, pp. 1-7)

Council Resolution of 7 December 1998 on energy efficiency in the European Community (OJ C 394, 17.12.1998, pp. 1-3)

last update 23.07.2018