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Key Takeaways What Happened: Earlier this year, the European Commission adopted a series of amendments that expanded the scope of anti-circumvention provisions to ecodesign regulations for a number of product categories. Both the European Union (EU) Ecodesign Directive and the U.S. Appliance and Equipment Standards Program prohibit using defeat devices to circumvent prescribed test procedures to misrepresent a product’s actual energy or water performance. Who Should Care: Manufacturers, importers, and authorized representatives who place covered products into the U.S. or EU markets. Produ...
Professional refrigerated storage cabinets, blast cabinets, condensing units and process chillers. The EC also developed and implemented regulations regarding standby, network standby, and off mode power consumption. These ecodesign regulations all include energy efficiency standards in addition to other measures. To ensure compliance throughout the EU, the EC established verification procedures, and Member States are responsible for establishing mechanisms for market surveillance and enforcement. The standard EU anti-circumvention provisions impose liability on the manufacturer and importer ...
Rebuild greener, rebuild fairer, rebuild stronger A truly green EU Industrial Strategy is the right tool for the job 16.03.2021 Wind turbines on hill ridge/ CC0 Nuno Marques 2020 was a challenging year for all of us. The unprecedented crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic has had a tremendous impact on societies and economies across the globe. Tentatively, we can now begin to hope that recovery is ahead of us, but what is clear is that we cannot go back to “business as usual”. We need to take this opportunity to transform our economy to be more environmentally sustainable and socially respon...
How the EU wants to achieve a circular economy by 2050 Find out about the EU’s circular economy action plan and what additional measures MEPs want to reduce waste and make products more sustainable. If we keep on exploiting resources as we do now, by 2050 we would need the resources of three Earths. Finite resources and climate issues require moving from a ‘take-make-dispose’ society to a carbon-neutral, environmentally sustainable, toxic-free and fully circular economy by 2050. The current crisis highlighted weaknesses in resource and value chains, hitting SMEs and industry. A circular...