Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/72 of 15 January 2025 amending Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/936 as regards harmonised standards for household washing machines and household washer-dryers
Date: 2025-01-15
Institutions: Directorate-General for Environment, European Commission
Subjects: Cenelec, European Committee for Standardisation, European standard, energy consumption, harmonisation of standards, household electrical appliance, marketing standard, product safety, technical specification, technical standard








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            COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2025/72
of 15 January 2025
         
amending Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/936 as regards harmonised standards for household washing machines and household washer-dryers


THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,


Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 on European standardisation, amending Council Directives 89/686/EEC and 93/15/EEC and Directives 94/9/EC, 94/25/EC, 95/16/EC, 97/23/EC, 98/34/EC, 2004/22/EC, 2007/23/EC, 2009/23/EC and 2009/105/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Decision 87/95/EEC and Decision No 1673/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (1), and in particular Article 10(6) thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


In accordance with Article 9(2) of Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (2), Member States are to regard a product for which harmonised standards have been applied, the references of which have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union, as conforming to all the relevant requirements of the applicable implementing measure to which such standards relate. The relevant measurement and calculation requirements for household washing machines and household washer-dryers are set out in Article 4 of Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/2023 (3) and Annex III to that Regulation.












(2)


In accordance with Article 13 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1369 of the European Parliament and of the Council (4), after the adoption of a delegated act pursuant to Article 16 of that Regulation setting specific labelling requirements, the Commission is to publish references to the harmonised standards that satisfy the relevant measurement and calculation requirements of the delegated act in the Official Journal of the European Union. Where such harmonised standards are applied during the conformity assessment of a product, the model is to be presumed to be in conformity with the relevant measurement and calculation requirements of the delegated act. Measurement and calculation requirements for household washing machines and household washer-dryers are set out in Article 3 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2014 (5) and in Annex IV to that Regulation.












(3)


By Commission Implementing Decision C(2023) 3518 (6), the Commission made a request to the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (Cenelec) for revision of existing harmonised standards on household washing machines and household washer-dryers listed in Annex I to that Decision in support of Regulation (EU) 2019/2023 and Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2014 (the ‘request’). The revision was necessary in order to replace the reference detergent containing the substance sodium perborate referred to in harmonised standard EN 60456:2016, as amended by EN 60456:2016/A11:2020,which is not to be placed on the market after 27 May 2023 in accordance with Article 56(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council (7) and entry 48 of Annex XIV to that Regulation. The request also made it possible to take account of technical and scientific progress, bring editorial changes and align rounding of reported numbers with amendments made by Commission Regulation (EU) 2021/341 (8) and Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/340 (9).












(4)


On the basis of the request, Cenelec revised harmonised standard EN 60456:2016, as amended by EN 60456:2016/A11:2020, the reference of which is published in the Official Journal of the European Union by Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/936 (10). This resulted in the adoption of amendment EN 60456:2016/A12:2023.












(5)


The Commission, together with Cenelec, has assessed whether harmonised standard EN 60456:2016, as amended by EN 60456:2016/A12:2023, complies with the request.












(6)


Harmonised standard EN 60456:2016, as amended by EN 60456:2016/A12:2023, satisfied the requirements which it aims to cover and which are set out in Regulation (EU) 2019/2023 and Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2014. It is therefore appropriate to publish the reference of that standard in the Official Journal of the European Union.












(7)


Annexes I and II to Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/936 provide the references of harmonised standards conferring a presumption of conformity with Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2014 and Regulation (EU) 2019/2023 respectively. In order to ensure that the references of harmonised standards drafted in support of those Regulations are listed in one act, the references of harmonised standard EN 60456:2016, as amended by EN 60456:2016/A12:2023, should be included in those Annexes.












(8)


It is necessary to withdraw the reference to harmonised standard EN 60456:2016, as amended by EN 60456:2016/A11:2020, from the Official Journal of the European Union, given that it is replaced by harmonised standard EN 60456:2016, as amended by EN 60456:2016/A12:2023. It is therefore necessary to delete that reference from Annexes I and II to Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/936.












(9)


Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/936 should therefore be amended accordingly.












(10)


Compliance with a harmonised standard confers a presumption of conformity with the corresponding essential requirements set out in Union harmonisation legislation from the date of publication of the reference of such standard in the Official Journal of the European Union. This Decision should therefore enter into force on the day of its publication,





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



Article 1
Annexes I and II to Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/936 are amended in accordance with the Annex to this Decision.


Article 2
This Decision shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.




Done at Brussels, 15 January 2025.


For the Commission


The President

Ursula VON DER LEYEN
            





(1)  
            OJ L 316, 14.11.2012, p. 12, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2012/1025/oj.

(2)  Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 establishing a framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements for energy-related products (OJ L 285, 31.10.2009, p. 10, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2009/125/oj).

(3)  Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/2023 of 1 October 2019 laying down ecodesign requirements for household washing machines and household washer-dryers pursuant to Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, amending Commission Regulation (EC) No 1275/2008 and repealing Commission Regulation (EU) No 1015/2010 (OJ L 315, 5.12.2019, p. 285, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2019/2023/oj).

(4)  Regulation (EU) 2017/1369 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2017 setting a framework for energy labelling and repealing Directive 2010/30/EU (OJ L 198, 28.7.2017, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2017/1369/oj).

(5)  Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2014 of 11 March 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1369 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to energy labelling of household washing machines and household washer-dryers and repealing Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1061/2010 and Commission Directive 96/60/EC (OJ L 315, 5.12.2019, p. 29, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2019/2014/oj).

(6)  Commission Implementing Decision C(2023)3518 of 2 June 2023 on a standardisation request to the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation as regards ecodesign and energy labelling requirements for household washing machines and household washer-dryers in support of Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/2023 and Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2014.

(7)  Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), establishing a European Chemicals Agency, amending Directive 1999/45/EC and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 793/93 and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1488/94 as well as Council Directive 76/769/EEC and Commission Directives 91/155/EEC, 93/67/EEC, 93/105/EC and 2000/21/EC (OJ L 396, 30.12.2006, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2006/1907/oj).

(8)  Commission Regulation (EU) 2021/341 of 23 February 2021 amending Regulations (EU) 2019/424, (EU) 2019/1781, (EU) 2019/2019, (EU) 2019/2020, (EU) 2019/2021, (EU) 2019/2022, (EU) 2019/2023 and (EU) 2019/2024 with regard to ecodesign requirements for servers and data storage products, electric motors and variable speed drives, refrigerating appliances, light sources and separate control gears, electronic displays, household dishwashers, household washing machines and household washer-dryers and refrigerating appliances with a direct sales function (OJ L 68, 26.2.2021, p. 108, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2021/341/oj).

(9)  Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/340 of 17 December 2020 amending Delegated Regulations (EU) 2019/2013, (EU) 2019/2014, (EU) 2019/2015, (EU) 2019/2016, (EU) 2019/2017 and (EU) 2019/2018 with regard to energy labelling requirements for electronic displays, household washing machines and household washer-dryers, light sources, refrigerating appliances, household dishwashers, and refrigerating appliances with a direct sales function (OJ L 68, 26.2.2021, p. 62, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2021/340/oj).

(10)  Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/936 of 3 June 2021 on the harmonised standards for household washing machines and household washer-dryers drafted in support of Regulation (EU) 2019/2023 and Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2014 (OJ L 204, 10.6.2021, p. 42, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2021/936/oj).




ANNEX
Annexes I and II to Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/936 are amended as follows:






(1)


Annex I is amended as follows:






(a)


row 1 is deleted;










(b)


the following row 1a is inserted:






‘1a.


EN 60456:2016
Clothes washing machines for household use – Methods for measuring the performance
EN 60456:2016/A12:2023’;


















(2)


Annex II is amended as follows:






(a)


row 1 is deleted;










(b)


the following row 1a is inserted:






‘1a.


EN 60456:2016
Clothes washing machines for household use – Methods for measuring the performance
EN 60456:2016/A12:2023’.















ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2025/72/oj
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