JAHARP2020-2 - Work Package 1 - Tumble Dryers

Work Package Coordinator: PROSAFE, BE
Work Package Leader: SNESB, SE

SCOPE

The final scope of this project is to generate measurable and verifiable impacts in the most cost-effective manner by surveying the state of compliance and safety of the internal market, identifying and dealing with non-compliant products distributed both through traditional and digital supply chains (e-commerce), ensuring dangerous or non-compliant products are removed from the market or brought into conformity, supporting business by reducing unfair competition an raising awareness among economic operators. Moreover, it will create multiplier effects through the dissemination of the project outcomes beyond its lifecycle and the replication or extrapolation of methods, lessons-learnt and best practices to future national and EU product market surveillance campaigns. Finally, the project present pragmatic and feasible policy and non-policy recommendations that can help the European Commission address the challenges and seize the opportunities for market surveillance on products covered by Union harmonization legislation.

OBJECTIVE

The main objectives of the work package are summarised as follows:
• Identification of non-compliant tumble dryers and appropriate actions to bring them into conformity or remove them from the market;
• Durable improvement of the general level of compliance and safety of tumble dryers;
• Increased profile for market surveillance of tumble dryers;
• Identification and development of best market surveillance practices for future actions;
• Appropriate responses from Standardisation Organisations and Notified Bodies

PARTICIPANTS

12 Market Surveillance Authorities from the following 10 countries: Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Finland, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden.

EEPLIANT3 - Work Package 8 -Tumble Dryers

Work Package Leader: Consumer Rights Protection Centre,Latvia
Work Package Coordinator: Austrian Energy Agency

Scope and Objectives

The action is based on the EU regulations in place mentioned below. The central objectives of the work package are summarised as follows:

• Assessment and use of screening methods to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of market surveillance actions;
• Checking product compliance based on document inspection;
• Checking product compliance based on product testing;
• Check of compliance for online labelling;
• Feedback and recommendations from experiences with document inspection and product testing to support the further development of standards and legislation. Identification of circumvention issues;
• Impact assessment for the action.

A minimum of 30 product models shall be tested whereas a roughly equal share of models between Market Surveillance Authorities is intended.

EU Legislation – Energy Labels & Eco-design

This work package is dedicated to a comprehensive market surveillance action for the product group domestic tumble dryers, subject to:

• Commission Regulation (EU) No 932/2012 (Eco-design);
• Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 392/2012 (including corrigendum OJ L 124, 11.5.2012) (energy labelling);
• Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 518/2014 (labelling of energy-related products on the internet).

Work Plan

• Setting the focus of the action;
• Product screening to enhance the efficiency of the action;
• Document inspection;
• Inspection of online labels and product information stored in the EPREL database;
• Product testing;
• Enforcement measures;
• Impact assessment;
• Digest of issues from inspection and testing.

Participants

10 Market Surveillance Authorities and 3 other organisations from the following 10 countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Malta and Portugal. Please note that Portugal withdrew from this Work Package as of 31.07.2021.