29/09/2011 (Agence Europe) - Germany and Czech Republic break EU ecodesign rules. On Thursday 29 September, the European Commission sent Germany and the Czech Republic reasoned opinions, instructing them to align their ecodesign rules with EU Directive 2009/125/EC on consumer energy and energy-related products like windows, which indirectly affect energy consumption. The German and Czech governments have two months to notify proper transposition of the EU rules into their legal systems,...