Air heating and cooling products
Ecodesign
1. Scope
This Regulation establishes ecodesign requirements for the placing on the market and/or putting into service of:
air heating products with a rated heating capacity not exceeding 1 MW;
cooling products and high temperature process chillers with a rated cooling capacity not exceeding 2 MW;
fan coil units.
2. Exemptions
This Regulation shall not apply to products meeting at least one of the following criteria:
products covered by Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/1188 with regard to ecodesign requirements for local space heaters;
products covered by Commission Regulation (EU) No 206/2012 with regard to ecodesign requirements for air conditioners and comfort fans;
products covered by Commission Regulation (EU) No 813/2013 with regard to ecodesign requirements for space heaters and combination heaters;
products covered by Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/1095 with regard to ecodesign requirements for professional refrigerated storage cabinets, blast cabinets, condensing units and process chillerscomfort chillers with leaving chilled water temperatures of less than + 2 °C and high temperature process chillers with leaving chilled water temperatures of less than + 2 °C or more than + 12 °C;
products designed for using predominantly biomass fuels;
products using solid fuels;
products that supply heat or cold in combination with electric power (‘cogeneration’) by means of a fuel combustion or conversion process;
products included in installations covered by Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on industrial emissions
high temperature process chillers exclusively using evaporative condensing;custom-made products assembled on site, made on a one-off basis;
high temperature process chillers in which refrigeration is effected by an absorption process that uses heat as the energy source; and
air heating and/or cooling products of which the primary function is the purpose of producing or storing perishable materials at specified temperatures by commercial, institutional or industrial facilities and of which space heating and/or space cooling is a secondary function and for which the energy efficiency of the space heating and/or space cooling function is dependent on that of the primary function.
3. Conformity assessment
Manufacturers shall be able to choose whether to use, for the conformity assessment procedure referred to in Article 8(2) of Directive 2009/125/EC, either the internal design control set out in Annex IV to that Directive or the management system set out in Annex V to that Directive.
4. Entry into force and application
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJ, 20. 12. 2016).
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.