Vacuum cleaners
This Regulation establishes eco-design requirements for the placing on the market of electric mains-operated vacuum cleaners (VCs), including hybrid VCs.
The 2013 Ecodesign regulation limits the maximum power and annual energy consumption of VCs (max 1600 W and 62 kWh/a from 2014; max 900 W and 43 kWh/a from 2017), while at the same time setting minimum requirements for the cleaning performance.
Ecodesign
Commission Regulation (EU) No 666/2013 of 8 July 2013 implementing Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to ecodesign requirements for vacuum cleaners (Text with EEA relevance)
Labelling
N/A yet
WEEE
Directive 2012/19/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2012 on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) (recast) (Text with EEA relevance)