ErP Directive Product Scope

Like EuP, the ErP Directive does not apply to vehicles for transporting people and goods.

In addition to the energy-consuming products covered by the original EuP Directive: simple set-top boxes, televisions, external power supplies, fluorescent lamps without integral ballasts, gas discharge lamp ballasts, and lamps using such lamps and ballasts, non-directional household lamps, directional lamps, LED lamps, lamps, lamp controllers (including LED drivers and electronic transformers), dimmers and sensors, motors, household refrigeration appliances, circulation pumps, it also includes other energy-saving products such as windows, insulating materials or water-using products (such as shower heads, faucets, etc.).

ErP Directive Implementation Rules

The ErP Directive is not a directive for product requirements, but only a framework directive. In accordance with the relevant provisions of this directive, the EU further formulated directives on the eco-design requirements that certain types of energy-consuming products must comply with, called "Implementing Measures", or IM for short. The implementation rules that have been promulgated and implemented are as follows:

1. Eco-design requirements for standby power consumption of electronic and electrical equipment for home and office use (No 1275/2008) were issued in December 2008 and implemented on January 7, 2010.

2. Eco-design requirements for simple set-top boxes (No 107/2009) were issued in February 2009 and implemented on February 25, 2010.

3. Eco-design requirements for non-directional household lamps (No 244/2009) were issued in March 2009 and implemented on September 1, 2009.

4. Eco-design requirements for fluorescent lamps without integrated ballasts, high-intensity gas discharge lamps, their ballasts and lamps (No 245/2009) were issued in March 2009 and implemented on April 13, 2010.

5. The eco-design requirements for external power supplies (No 278/2009) were issued in April 2009 and implemented on April 27, 2010.

6. The eco-design requirements for electric motors (No 640/2009) were issued in July 2009 and implemented on June 16, 2010.

7. The eco-design requirements for independent sealless circulators (No 641/2009) were issued in August 2009 and implemented on January 1, 2010.

8. The eco-design requirements for televisions (No 642/2009) were issued in July 2009 and implemented on January 7, 2010.

9. The eco-design requirements for household refrigeration equipment (No 643/2009) were issued in July 2009 and implemented on July 1, 2010.

10. Household washing machines (No 1015/2010) were issued in November 2010 and came into force on December 1, 2011.

11. Household dishwashers (No 1016/2010) were issued in November 2010 and came into force on December 1, 2011.

12. Household clothes dryers (No 932/2012) were issued in October 2012 and came into force on November 1, 2013.

13. Motor-driven fans with an input power range between 125 W and 500 kW (No 327/2011) were issued in April 2011 and came into force on April 6, 2011.

14. Eco-design requirements for directional lamps, LED lamps and related equipment (No 1194/2012) were issued in December 2012 and implemented on September 1, 2013.