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improve the energy efficiency of energy using products (EuPs) and thereby contribute
to efforts to reach European targets for climate protection. The directive, however,
does not only cover the energy use of products but rather aims to reduce the overall
negative environmental impact of the products under consideration. In 2009, the EuP
Directive 2005/32/EC was replaced by a new Directive (2009/125/EC)
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. The most
important amendment concerns the Directive’s scope, which has been extended from
“energy-using” to so-called “energy-related” products.
Since mid of 2009, the preparatory study on non-tertiary coffee machines Lot 25
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being carried out by BIO Intelligence Service (Paris) for the European Commission DG
ENER in the context of the Eco-design Directive. The preparatory study follows the
Methodology for Eco-design of Energy-using Products (MEEuP), which is mandatory
for all Eco-design preparatory studies, comprising 8 tasks.
On the basis of this preparatory study the European Commission will develop a
Working Document with draft Implementing Measures, i.e. requirements for the
environmental performance of the coffee machines. The next step is then a so-called
Consultation Forum, where feedback from representatives of the member states and
selected stakeholder parties to the draft implementing measures is possible. The
Implementing Measure is then subject to an impact assessment and interservice
consultation before being presented for vote to an assembly of EU member states
representatives, known as the Regulatory Committee. The EU parliament has the
opportunity to intervene before the Implementing Measure enters into force.
2.4.2.3 Relevant National Criteria
France – NF Environment
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There is a voluntary certification mark in France: the NF Environnement mark. For
coffeee machines it is only applicable to filter coffee machines (“NF397 Electric Filter
Coffee Machines for Domestic Use”). Certified characteristics comprise energy
consumption in standby mode, off mode, as well as for coffee preparation, with
threshold levels for each mode. It also requieres a hard on/off switch. The NF
Environment mark is issued by AFNOR Certification by the Central Laboratory of
Electrical Industry (LCIE) and it is the official French ecological certification logo for
products with a reduced effect on the environment.
amending Council Directive 92/42/EEC and Directives 96/57/EC and 2000/55/EC of the European
Parliament and of the Council
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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 (recast)
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Ecodesign of EuP. Non-tertiary coffee machines lot 25. BIO Intelligence Service, Paris.
www.ecocoffeemachine.org
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Référentiel de certification “Cafetières électriques à filtre pour usage domestique” AFAQ AFNOR
Certification, www.marque-nf.com, France
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