1. Ecodesign and Energy Labelling In Europe
Veerle Beelaerts
Policy officer energy efficiency
DG Energy, Efficiency
Workshop on energy efficiency opportunities while phasing-down hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)
Vienna, 9-10 July 2018

2. Small Air conditioners and Heat pumps
Ecodesign
Ecodesign and energy labelling
Standby and off mode
Network standby
Space heaters
Televisions
Simple set-top boxes
Power transformers
Vacuum cleaners
Lamps
Fans
Air heating products
Air conditioners and comfort fans
Water heaters
External power supplies
Water pumps
Household dishwasher
Domestic cooking appliances
Electric motors
Computers and servers
Household washing machines
Household tumble dryers
Circulators
Household fridges and freezers
Ventilation units
Local space heaters
Professional refrigeration
Solid fuel boilers
30 Ecodesign regulations
16 Energy labelling regulations
In addition:
3 voluntary agreements
2 tyre labelling regulations

3. Energy Labelling (delegated acts) procedure
PROCESS
Voluntary Agreements procedure
Notify Voluntary
Agreement &
report to European
Parliament &
Council
(no right of scrutiny)
Adoption by
European
Commission of
Report & VA
(written procedure)
Publication Report &
Agreement &
Letter to signatories
12 week
Open Public
consultation
4 week
Feedback
mechanism
Ecodesign (implementing acts) procedure
Preparatory/
review
study
Consultation Forum on draft measures/ proposed voluntary agreement
Impact assessment
on draft
measures/ proposed voluntary agreement
Inter-
service
consultation
Notification To
World
Trade
Organisation
Regulatory Committee
(discussion and vote)
Scrutiny European
Parliament
& Council
Adoption by
European
Commission
Publication
in the
Official Journal
Energy Labelling (delegated acts) procedure
Expert Group
Member
States
(discussion)
Adoption by
European
Commission
Objection
European
Parliament
& Council
Publication
in the
official journal
At least 4 years

4. Environmental impacts
Largest environmental impact usually energy consumption:
Energy
efficiency
Pull
Target
= least life cycle cost
Minimum energy efficiency requirement
Push
BAN
Average product
Other regulated environmental impacts:
Noise, to avoid that efficiency improvements would be at the cost of higher noise emissions
Refrigerants - Lower efficiency for refrigerants GWP ≤ 150, to stimulate the market to use low GWP refrigerants

5. Challenges for EU wide regulations
Europe is diverse
Ecodesign is based on EU averages, i.e. average purchase costs, electricity prices, average efficiencies, etc.
Regulations need to protect all EU citizens including:
Consumers with low incomes
People who work at small and medium size enterprises
Society as a whole with regards to climate change
Etc.
A good balance needs to be found!

6. Other challenges Market surveillance:
Strong market surveillance ensures compliance with the regulations. Today each member state of the EU is responsible for market surveillance in their country.
Projects are being set up to coordinate the market surveillance actions and improve compliance
Resource efficiency requirements (recyclability, reparability, upgradability, durability, etc.):
Commitment to better contribute to objectives of circular economy.
No single methodology to set requirements.
=> Standards are under preparation and ideally the methodology to set ecodesign requirements should be updated.