Commercial refrigerators
Ecodesign
1. Scope
This Regulation establishes ecodesign requirements for the placing on the market or the putting into service of electric mains-operated refrigerating appliances with a direct sales function, including appliances sold for refrigeration of items other than foodstuffs.
2. Exceptions
This Regulation shall not apply to the following products:
refrigerating appliances with a direct sales function that are only powered by energy sources other than electricity;
the remote components, such as the condensing unit, compressors or water condensed unit, to which a remote cabinet needs to be connected in order to function;
food processing refrigerating appliances with a direct sales function;
refrigerating appliances with a direct sales function specifically tested and approved for the storage of medicines or scientific samples;
refrigerating appliances with a direct sales function that have no integrated system for producing cooling, and function by ducting chilled air that is produced by an external air chiller unit; this does not include remote cabinets nor does it include category 6 refrigerated vending machines, as defined in Table 5 of Annex III;
professional refrigerated storage cabinets, blast cabinets, condensing units and process chillers as defined in Regulation (EU) 2015/1095;
wine storage appliances and minibars.
The requirements in point 1 and point 3(k) of Annex II do not apply to:
refrigerating appliances with a direct sales function that do not use a vapour compression refrigeration cycle;
refrigerating appliances with a direct sales function for the sale and display of live foodstuffs, such as refrigerating appliances for the sale and display of living fish and shellfish, refrigerated aquaria and water tanks;
saladettes;
horizontal serve-over counters with integrated storage designed to work at chilled operating temperatures;
corner/curved and carousel cabinets;
vending machines designed to work at frozen operating temperatures;
serve-over fish counters with flaked ice.
3. Conformity assessment
The conformity assessment procedure referred to in Article 8 of Directive 2009/125/EC shall be the internal design control system 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. It shall apply from 1 March 2021. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
5. Harmonised standards
Commission Communication: Harmonised standards for household refrigerating appliances 2014/C 22/03