EEPLIANT4 Work Package 5: Cooking appliances (electrical or gas ovens, hobs, and range hoods)
Scope of action
This Work Package covers Cooking appliances, and will particularly focus on electrical or gas ovens, hobs, and range hoods. The MSAs will undergo compliance verifications checks against the following legislations:
- Regulation (EU) 65/2014 with regard to the energy labelling of domestic ovens and range hoods;
- Regulation (EU) 66/2014 with regard to ecodesign requirements for domestic ovens, hobs and range hoods.
Objectives
- Surveying the state of compliance in the internal market for cooking appliances;
- Identifying and dealing with non-compliant products, ensuring that products are brought into conformity or withdrawn from the market;
- Reducing the electricity bills of consumers, thereby improving the wellbeing of European consumers/end-users;
- Reducing unfair competition resulting from the presence of non-compliant products on the market;
- Raising awareness among economic operators (as defined in Regulation (EU) 2019/1020) and other concerned stakeholders about the problems identified;
- Raising the profile of EU market surveillance in general.
Participants
12 Market Surveillance Authorities (MSAs) and 1 other governmental organisation are part of this Work Package. They are from 11 Countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, and Turkey (as associated partner).