The text agreed on 7 July by the EC Regulatory Committee on the

Ecodesign & Energy Labelling of Energy-using Products for an

Implementing Measure (via an EC Regulation) on standby and off-mode of

household and office equipment can now be viewed at:



 



<<http://www.mtprog.com/ReferenceLibrary/Draft%20EuP%20standby%20post%20

vote.pdf >>



 



This proposal (after translation in all official Community languages)

will be sent to the Council and European Parliament for extended

scrutiny. If the Parliament has no objections it should be adopted by

the Commission and published in the EU Official Journal at the beginning

of 2009. The first phase will come into force a year later.



 



 



 



 



Well the EU have done it again and managed to be extremely vague and

confusing in their scope, See Art 2. However if you look at Annex 1,

Cat. 3 then this reads EXACTLY the same as Cat. 4 in the WEEE Directive

(and so RoHS directive). So given that many B2B producers found they

actually came in scope under WEEE/RoHS Cat 4 then by implication are

they going to be in scope under EuP?



 



As we know the EU commission groups seem to be very inept when defining

scopes and no two policy making groups seem to learn from the other's

mistakes. Either well meaning or by just sheer ignorance they drop in

other words like household and office equipment into the scope possibly

with the intention of making it clearer but in reality just making it

more obscure.



 



Chris



 









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