The cheapest product on sale is not necessarily the best option: electricity use, water consumption, durability and reparability can make a difference in terms of total cost of ownership over the entire product use time. Learn how to understand the energy label of a product and the additional registered information in order to make an informed purchase decision.
- Are you a consumer looking for a new product?
- Are you a public buyer and want to purchase in bulk?
- Do you wish to have an overview of products and performance levels?
Suppliers are manufacturers established in the European Union, importers or authorised representatives of manufacturers not established in the Union, who place products on the Union market. Before energy-related products covered by energy labelling are placed on the EU market, the models must be registered by their supplier in the product database EPREL.
- As a supplier what should you do to comply with the Ecodesign and the Energy Label legislative framework?
- Which product models do you need to register?
- What should you do to be entitled to register models?
- How can you pass the verification process?
- How can you register a new product model?
Precise obligations are set in the legislation to help consumers perform an informed purchase choice and properly displaying the label is part of them.
- As a dealer or distributor, do you know your obligations?
- How can you get the correct labels and how should you show them?
- Are there differences in obligations between traditional stores and online stores?
- And what about installers?
Learn here how to properly comply with the legislation and help customers perform a better informed choice.
Energy efficiency first
Energy efficiency is a strategic priority for the European Union: the European Commission promotes 'energy efficiency first' as a principle.
Energy efficiency is as an energy source in its own and in principle it is the cheapest and the most widely available. The same applies to material efficiency.
By using energy and materials more efficiently, energy and resource demand can be reduced, leading to lower energy bills for consumers and the business, lower emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants, reduced need for energy infrastructure, reduced energy and material imports (an economic and security goal), reduced environmental damages.
Ecodesign and Labelling are the crucial tools for enhancing products energy and material efficiency.