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EEPLIANT 2014 – Energy Efficiency Compliant Products 2014 project

Panel: 7. Appliances, products, lighting and ICT

This is a peer-reviewed paper.

Author:
Nils Ahlén, Swedish Energy Agency, Sweden

Abstract

The EEPLIANT project ensures the cooperation of responsible national and regional authority bodies into a coordinated programme that results into taking formal enforcement action. This is being achieved through coordinating the monitoring, verification and enforcement activities of 13 Market Surveillance Authorities across the EU – which have the power, already used within the project, to take legal action on noncompliant products – with some 200 products being verified.

The project is coordinated by PROSAFE and is funded by the European Union’ mechanism Horizon 2020 and the organisers´ conservative estimation is that it will achieve energy savings of 86 GWh. In addition to the lab testing activities, the project also ensures an inspection of the technical documentation, defines surveillance best practices and shares these among the authorities – including the other authorities within the EU, and ensures regular communication with professional stakeholders.

Within the 2015–2017 period, EEPLIANT focuses on the following product groups:

• LED lamps;

• Imaging equipment;

• Space heaters and combination heaters.

These products are taken from the market , just as regular consumers would do, and their compliance with the energy efficiency related requirements is inspected and measured in laboratories. In case of any noncompliance found, the market surveillance authorities take appropriate enforcement action. The project has been designed not only to assist authorities in verifying energy consumption of specific products, but also to facilitate the cooperation with other stakeholders, such as industry associations, in achieving higher rates of overall product compliance with the EU legislation requirements.

Countries represented include AT, BE, BG, DK, DE, LT, MT, NL, PL, SI, SWE, UK.

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