On Thursday 8 June, the European Commission launched a 12-week public consultation on ecodesign and energy labelling requirements for cooking appliances.
Existing legislation on the subject dating from 2013 sets minimum energy efficiency requirements for ovens, hobs and cooker hoods (Regulation 65/2014) and establishes energy labelling rules for ovens and cooker hoods (Regulation 66/2014).
Given that technological progress has been made since 2013, this new initiative will make it possible, among other things, to assess the updating of requirements, to examine whether the scope of products covered should be extended to include microwave ovens, for example, or to assess the energy labelling of hobs and air pollution problems.
This public consultation follows a call for contributions which ran from 2 to 30 May.
The results of these two surveys will be taken into account in the revisions that the Commission will make to the existing legislation on the subject.
Publication of the new legislation is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2024. However, the new rules (a delegated act and an implementing act) will only come into force after a period of scrutiny by the European Parliament and the EU Council.
To see the public consultation: https://aeur.eu/f/7e0 (Original version in French by Pauline Denys)