What’s on? Compliance of televisions with energy labelling and ecodesign regulations

摘要

The 2014 evaluation of the energy label prioritised the needto address market surveillance to recoup the estimated 10 %of potential energy savings lost as a consequence of poor enforcement.ComplianTV was initiated to address these needsspecifically for televisions (TVs), given the recent entry intoforce of the TV related regulations and the specific challengesthat exist in this market – for example the market size, thebreadth of suppliers, the energy impacts and the complexitiesaround the standardisation and measurement process. ComplianTVsupports the market transformation of TVs towardsmore energy-efficient products. The project works alongsidethe EU energy labelling (1062/2010) and ecodesign (642/2009)regulations for TVs in a number of ways: ensuring that noncompliantproducts are identified and removed from themarket, engaging in dialogue with all stakeholders, improvingperformance through competition and guiding consumerstowards the most efficient products available. The projectaims to support the activities of national Market SurveillanceAuthorities (MSAs) and an overall increased culture of complianceamong manufacturers and retailers. So far the project hasassessed 162 TV models, identified a number of non-compliantproducts and created and published the results in a publicallyaccessible database. It has identified standardisation anomaliesand produced guidelines for TV testing and recommendationsfor future policy development; it has inspected the complianceof 100 physical and 100 online shops across 5 countries findingnon-compliance rates of 41 % and 74 % respectively and it hasestablished a detailed dialogue with MSAs, manufacturers andretailers across Europe. The project is delivering an improvedcompliance rate of future TVs through a detailed discussionand remedy action process with non-compliant manufacturersand retailers, by means of returning to the retailers and checkingmanufacturer’s products to verify the implementation ofremedy actions; capacity building with European testing laboratorieson the TV testing issues and standardisation anomaliesuncovered; and national and European workshops with MSAssharing project outputs.