COMMISSION DECISION
of 9 November 2007
establishing the ecological criteria for the award of the Community eco-label to electrically driven, gas driven or gas absorption heat pumps
(notified under document number C(2007) 5492)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2007/742/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 1980/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 July 2000 on a revised Community eco-label award scheme (1), and in particular the second subparagraph of Article 6(1) thereof and the sixth paragraph of point 2 of Annex V thereof,
After consulting the European Union Eco-Labelling Board,
Whereas:
(1)
Under Regulation (EC) No 1980/2000, the Community eco-label may be awarded to a product possessing characteristics which enable it to contribute significantly to improvements in relation to key environmental aspects.
(2)
Regulation (EC) No 1980/2000 provides that specific eco-label criteria, drawn up on the basis of the criteria drafted by the European Union Eco-Labelling Board, are to be established according to product groups.
(3)
The ecological criteria, as well as the related assessment and verification requirements, should be valid for a period of three years.
(4)
The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee instituted by Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 1980/2000,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Article 1
The product group ‘electrically driven, gas driven or gas absorption heat pumps’ shall comprise heat pumps, which can concentrate energy present in the air, ground or water into useful heat for the supply of space heating or the opposite process for space cooling. A ‘heat pump’ is the device or set of devices as delivered by the manufacturer or importer to the distributor, retailer or installer. This delivery may or may not include the delivery of circulating pumps at the sink or source side, however for calculation of coefficient of performance (COP) values the power consumption of circulating pumps shall always be taken into account, according to the methodology of EN14511:2004 (if the manufacturer cannot provide data, a default value is taken). For gas absorption heat pumps the methodology shall be according to EN12309-2:2000.
The product group shall cover only electrically driven, gas driven or gas absorption heat pumps with a maximum heating capacity of 100 kW.
The product group ‘electrically driven, gas driven or gas absorption heat pumps’ shall not cover the following:
(a)
heat pumps which can only provide hot water for sanitary use;
(b)
heat pumps which can only extract heat from a building and eject it to the air, ground or water thus resulting in space cooling.
Article 2
In order to be awarded the Community eco-label under Regulation (EC) No 1980/2000, a heat pump must fall within the product group ‘electrically driven, gas driven or gas absorption heat pumps’ and must comply with each of the criteria set out in the Annex to this Decision.
Article 3
For administrative purposes, the code number assigned to the product group ‘electrically driven, gas driven or gas absorption heat pumps’ shall be ‘31’.
Article 4
The ecological criteria for the product group ‘electrically driven, gas driven or gas absorption heat pumps’, as well as the related assessment and verification requirements, shall be valid until 9 November 2010.
Article 5
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 9 November 2007.