Commission Regulation (EU) No 66/2014 of 14 January 2014 implementing Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to ecodesign requirements for domestic ovens, hobs and range hoods Text with EEA relevance

Article 1

Subject matter and scope

This Regulation shall not apply to:

(a) appliances that use energy sources other than electricity or gas;

(b) appliances which offer ‘microwave heating’ function;

(c) small ovens;

(d) portable ovens;

(e) heat storage ovens;

(f) ovens which are heated with steam as a primary heating function;

(g) covered gas burners in hobs;

(h) outdoor cooking appliances;

(i) appliances designed for use only with gases of the ‘third family’ (propane and butane);

(j) grills.

Article 2

Definitions

In addition to the definitions set out in Article 2 of Directive 2009/125/EC, the following definitions shall apply for the purpose of this Regulation:

(1) ‘oven’ means an appliance or part of an appliance which incorporates one or more cavities using electricity and/or gas in which food is prepared by use of a conventional or fan-forced mode;

(2) ‘cavity’ means the enclosed compartment in which the temperature can be controlled for preparation of food;

(3) ‘multi-cavity oven’ means an oven with two or more cavities, each of which is heated separately;

(4) ‘small oven’ means an oven where all cavities have a width and depth of less than 250 mm or a height less than 120 mm;

(5) ‘portable oven’ means an oven with a product mass of less than 18 kilograms, provided it is not designed for built-in installations;

(6) ‘microwave heating’ means heating of food using electromagnetic energy;

(7) ‘conventional mode’ means the operation mode of an oven only using natural convection for circulation of heated air inside the cavity of the oven;

(8) ‘fan-forced mode’ means a mode when a built-in fan circulates heated air inside the cavity of the oven;

(9) ‘cycle’ means the period of heating a standardised load in a cavity of an oven under defined conditions;

(10) ‘cooker’ means an appliance consisting of an oven and a hob using gas or electricity;

(11) ‘operation mode’ means the status of the oven or hob during use;

(12) ‘heat source’ means the main energy form for heating an oven or hob;

(13) ‘electric hob’ means an appliance or part of an appliance which incorporates one or more cooking zones and/or cooking areas including a control unit and which is heated by electricity;

(14) ‘gas hob’ means an appliance or part of an appliance which incorporates one or more cooking zones including a control unit and which is heated by gas burners of a minimum power of 1,16 kW;

(15) ‘hob’ means an ‘electric hob’, a ‘gas hob’ or a ‘mixed hob’;

(16) ‘covered gas burners’ means closed or sealed gas range burners covered with a heavy-duty glass or ceramic cover, which forms a smooth, seamless cooking surface;

(17) ‘mixed hob’ means an appliance with one or more electrically heated cooking zones or areas and one or more cooking zones heated by gas burners;

(18) ‘cooking zone’ means a part, with a diameter of at least 100 mm, of a hob where cookware is placed and heated with not more than one piece of cookware heated at a time; the area of the cooking zone may be visibly marked on the surface of the hob;

(19) ‘cooking area’ means a part of an area of an electric hob heated by an inducted magnetic field, where cookware is placed for heating without visible marking for the cookware and where more than one item of cookware can be used simultaneously;

(20) ‘range hood’ means an appliance, operated by a motor which it controls, intended to collect contaminated air from above a hob, or which includes a downdraft system intended for installation adjacent to cooking ranges, hobs and similar cooking products, that draws vapour down into an internal exhaust duct;

(21) ‘automatic functioning mode during the cooking period’ means a condition in which the air flow of the range hood during the cooking period is automatically controlled through sensor(s), including as regards humidity, temperature, etc.;

(22) ‘fully automatic range hood’ means a range hood in which the air flow and/or other functions are automatically controlled through sensor(s) during 24 hours including the cooking period;

(23) ‘best efficiency point’ (BEP) means the range hood operating point with maximum fluid dynamic efficiency (FDEhood);

(24) ‘average illumination’ (Emiddle) means the average illumination provided by the lighting system of the range hood on the cooking surface, measured in lux;

(25) ‘off mode’ means a condition in which the equipment is connected to the mains power source but is not providing any function, or only provides an indication of off-mode condition, or only provides functionalities intended to ensure electromagnetic compatibility pursuant to Directive 2004/108/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (¹);

(26) ‘standby mode’ means a condition where the equipment is connected to the mains power source, depends on energy input from the mains power source to work as intended and provides only reactivation function, or reactivation function and only an indication of enabled reactivation function, and/or information or status display, which may persist for an indefinite time;

(27) ‘reactivation function’ means a function facilitating the activation of other modes, including the active mode, by remote switch including remote control, internal sensor, or timer to a condition providing additional functions, including the main function;

(28) ‘information or status display’ means a continuous function providing information or indicating the status of the equipment on a display, including clocks;

(29) ‘end-user’ means a consumer buying or expected to buy a product;

(30) ‘equivalent model’ means a model placed on the market with the same technical parameters as another model placed on the market under a different commercial code number by the same manufacturer or importer.

Article 3

Ecodesign requirements and timetable

Article 4

Conformity assessment

Article 5

Verification procedure for market surveillance purposes

Member States’ authorities shall apply the verification procedure described in Annex III to this Regulation when performing the market surveillance checks referred to in Article 3(2) of Directive 2009/125/EC for compliance with requirements set out in Annex I to this Regulation.

Article 6

Indicative benchmarks

The indicative benchmarks for best-performing appliances available on the market at the time of entry into force of this Regulation are set out in Annex IV.

Article 7

Review

The Commission shall review this Regulation in the light of technological progress and present the result of this review to the Consultation Forum no later than 7 years after the entry into force of the Regulation. The review shall assess, amongst others, the feasibility of: potential requirements to enhance the recovery and recycling of the appliances; durability and lifetime requirements; the inclusion of professional and commercial appliances; and fume and odour removal requirements.

Article 8

Entry into force and application

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

ANNEX I

Ecodesign requirements

1. ENERGY EFFICIENCY, AIR FLOW AND ILLUMINATION REQUIREMENTS

Cavities of domestic ovens (including when incorporated in cookers) shall comply with maximum Energy Efficiency Index limits as indicated in Table 1.

	Domestic electric & gas oven
From 1 year after the entry into force	EEIcavity < 146
From 2 years after the entry into force	EEIcavity < 121
From 5 years after the entry into force	EEIcavity < 96

From 5 years after entry into force, for multi-cavity ovens (including when incorporated in cookers), at least one cavity shall comply with the maximum Energy Efficiency Index as indicated in Table 1 as applicable from 5 years after entry into force whereas the other cavities shall comply with the maximum Energy Efficiency Index as indicated in Table 1 as applicable from 2 years after entry into force.

The domestic hobs shall have the maximum energy consumption limits for electric hobs (ECelectric hob) and the minimum energy efficiency limits for gas-fired hobs (EEgas hob) as indicated in Table 2.

	Electric hob (ECelectric hob in Wh/kg)	Gas-fired hob (EEgas hob in %)
From 1 year after the entry into force	ECelectric hob < 210	EEgas hob > 53
From 3 years after the entry into force	ECelectric hob < 200	EEgas hob > 54
From 5 years after the entry into force	ECelectric hob < 195	EEgas hob > 55

The domestic range hoods shall have the maximum EEIhood and the minimum FDEhood limits as indicated in Table 3.

	EEIhood	FDEhood
From 1 year after the entry into force	EEIhood < 120	FDEhood > 3
From 3 years after the entry into force	EEIhood < 110	FDEhood > 5
From 5 years after the entry into force	EEIhood < 100	FDEhood > 8

From 1 year after the entry into force, the domestic range hoods with a maximum air flow in any of the available settings higher than 650 m³/h shall automatically revert to an air flow lower than or equal to 650 m³/h in a time tlimit as defined in Annex II.

(1)From 18 months after the entry into force:

— Power consumption in ‘off mode’: the power consumption in any off-mode condition shall not exceed 1,00 W.

— Power consumption in ‘standby mode(s)’: — The power consumption in any condition providing only a reactivation function, or providing only a reactivation function and a mere indication of enabled reactivation function, shall not exceed 1,00 W. — The power consumption of equipment in any condition providing only information or status display, or providing only a combination of reactivation function and information or status display, shall not exceed 2,00 W.

— Availability of ‘off mode’ and/or ‘standby mode’: domestic range hoods shall provide ‘off mode’ and/or ‘standby mode’, and/or another condition which does not exceed the applicable power consumption requirements for ‘off mode’ and/or ‘standby mode’ when the equipment is connected to the mains power source.

(2)From 3 years and 6 months after the entry into force:

— Power consumption in ‘off mode’: the power consumption in any off-mode condition shall not exceed 0,50 W.

— Power consumption in ‘standby mode(s)’: the power consumption in any condition providing only a reactivation function, or providing only a reactivation function and a mere indication of enabled reactivation function, shall not exceed 0,50 W. The power consumption of equipment in any condition providing only information or status display, or providing only a combination of reactivation function and information or status display shall not exceed 1,00 W.

— Power management: when domestic range hoods are not providing the main function, or when other energy-using product(s) are not dependent on its functions, equipment shall, unless inappropriate for the intended use, offer a power management function, or a similar function, that switches equipment after the shortest possible period of time appropriate for the intended use of the equipment, automatically into: — ‘standby mode’, or — ‘off mode’, or — another condition which does not exceed the applicable power consumption requirements for ‘off mode’ and/or ‘standby mode’ when the equipment is connected to the mains power source.

— The power management function shall be activated before delivery.

— For range hoods with automatic functioning mode during the cooking period and fully automatic range hoods, the delay time after which the product switches automatically into the modes and conditions as referred to in the previous point shall be one minute after the motor and lighting have both been switched off either automatically or manually.

From 1 year after entry into force, for range hoods which provide for lighting of the cooking surface, the average illumination of the lighting system on the cooking surface (Emiddle) shall be higher than 40 lux when measured under standard conditions.

2. PRODUCT INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS

From 1 year after entry into force, the following product information shall be provided in the technical documentation of the product, the booklet of instructions and on the free access websites of manufacturers of domestic ovens, hobs and range hoods, their authorised representatives, or importers:

(a) short title or reference to the measurement and calculation methods used to establish compliance with the above requirements;

(b) information relevant to users in order to reduce total environmental impact (e.g. energy use) of the cooking process.

From 1 year after entry into force, the technical documentation and a part for professionals of the free access websites of manufacturers, their authorised representatives, or importers shall contain information relevant for non-destructive disassembly for maintenance purposes and information relevant for dismantling, in particular in relation to the motor, if applicable, and any batteries, recycling, recovery and disposal at end-of-life.