Professional refrigerated storage cabinets
Ecodesign
1. Scope
This Regulation establishes ecodesign requirements for the placing on the market of professional refrigerated storage cabinets and blast cabinets. This Regulation shall apply to electric mains-operated blast cabinets, and electric mains-operated professional refrigerated storage cabinets including those sold for the refrigeration of foodstuffs and animal feed.
This Regulation also establishes ecodesign requirements for the placing on the market of condensing units operating at low or medium temperature or both.
This Regulation also establishes ecodesign requirements for the placing on the market of process chillers intended to operate at low or medium temperature.
2. Exemptions
This Regulation shall not apply to the following products:
professional refrigerated storage cabinets that are primarily powered by energy sources other than electricity;
professional refrigerated storage cabinets operating with a remote condensing unit;
open cabinets, where being open is a fundamental requirement for their primary functionality;
cabinets specifically designed for food processing, where the mere presence of one compartment, with a net volume equivalent to less than 20 % of the cabinet’s total net volume and specifically designed for food processing is not sufficient for exemption;
cabinets specifically designed only for the purpose of thawing frozen foodstuffs in a controlled manner, where the mere presence of one compartment specifically designed for thawing frozen foodstuffs in a controlled manner is not sufficient for exemption;
saladettes;
serve-over counters and other similar forms of cabinets primarily intended for display and sale of foodstuffs in addition to refrigeration and storage;
cabinets that do not use a vapour compression refrigeration cycle;
blast cabinets and blast rooms with a capacity superior to 300 kg of foodstuffs;
continuous-process blast equipment;
custom-made professional refrigerated storage cabinets and blast cabinets, made on a one-off basis according to individual customer specification and not equivalent to other professional refrigerated storage cabinets as described in definition 10 of Annex I or blast cabinets as described in definition 11 of Annex I;
built-in cabinets;
roll-in and pass-through cabinets;
static air cabinets;
chest freezers.
This Regulation shall not apply to the following products:
condensing units including an evaporator, which may be an integral evaporator, such as in monobloc units, or a remote evaporator, such as in split units;
compressor packs or racks, which do not include a condenser;
condensing units of which the condenser-side does not use air as heat transfer medium.
This Regulation shall not apply to the following products:
process chillers intended to operate at high temperature;
process chillers exclusively using evaporative condensing;
custom-made process chillers assembled on site, made on a one-off basis;
absorption chillers.
3. Conformity assessment
The conformity assessment procedure referred to in Article 8(2) of Directive 2009/125/EC shall be the internal design control set out in its Annex IV or the management system set out in its Annex V.
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.
5. Harmonised standards
Commission Communication: Transitional methods of measurement for professional refrigerated storage cabinets (2017/C 044/01)