Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/1095 of 5 May 2015 implementing Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to ecodesign requirements for professional refrigerated storage cabinets, blast cabinets, condensing units and process chillers (Text with EEA relevance)

Article 1

Subject matter and scope

This Regulation shall apply to electric mains-operated blast cabinets, and electric mains-operated professional refrigerated storage cabinets including those sold for the refrigeration of foodstuffs and animal feed.

However, it shall not apply to the following products:

(a) professional refrigerated storage cabinets that are primarily powered by energy sources other than electricity;

(b) professional refrigerated storage cabinets operating with a remote condensing unit;

(c) open cabinets, where being open is a fundamental requirement for their primary functionality;

(d) cabinets specifically designed for food processing, where the mere presence of one compartment, with a net volume equivalent to less than 20 % of the cabinet's total net volume and specifically designed for food processing is not sufficient for exemption;

(e) cabinets specifically designed only for the purpose of thawing frozen foodstuffs in a controlled manner, where the mere presence of one compartment specifically designed for thawing frozen foodstuffs in a controlled manner is not sufficient for exemption;

(f) saladettes;

(g) serve-over counters and other similar forms of cabinets primarily intended for display and sale of foodstuffs in addition to refrigeration and storage;

(h) cabinets that do not use a vapour compression refrigeration cycle;

(i) blast cabinets and blast rooms with a capacity superior to 300 kg of foodstuffs;

(j) continuous-process blast equipment;

(k) custom-made professional refrigerated storage cabinets and blast cabinets, made on a one-off basis according to individual customer specification and not equivalent to other professional refrigerated storage cabinets as described in definition 10 of Annex I or blast cabinets as described in definition 11 of Annex I;

(l) built-in cabinets;

(m) roll-in and pass-through cabinets;

(n) static air cabinets;

(o) chest freezers.

However, it shall not apply to the following products:

(a) condensing units including an evaporator, which may be an integral evaporator, such as in monobloc units, or a remote evaporator, such as in split units;

(b) compressor packs or racks, which do not include a condenser;

(c) condensing units of which the condenser-side does not use air as heat transfer medium.

However, it shall not apply to the following products:

(a) process chillers intended to operate at high temperature;

(b) process chillers exclusively using evaporative condensing;

(c) custom-made process chillers assembled on site, made on a one-off basis;

(d) absorption chillers.

Article 2

Definitions

The following definitions shall apply:

(a) ‘professional refrigerated storage cabinet’ means an insulated refrigerating appliance integrating one or more compartments accessible via one or more doors or drawers, capable of continuously maintaining the temperature of foodstuffs within prescribed limits at chilled or frozen operating temperature, using a vapour compression cycle, and intended for the storage of foodstuffs in non-household environments but not for the display to or access by customers;

(b) ‘blast cabinet’ means an insulated refrigerating appliance primarily intended to rapidly cool hot foodstuffs to below 10 °C in the case of chilling and below – 18 °C in the case of freezing;

(c) ‘blast room’ means an enclosure, for which the doorway and internal space is large enough for a person to step inside, primarily intended to rapidly cool hot foodstuffs to below 10 °C in the case of chilling and below – 18 °C in the case of freezing;

(d) ‘capacity’ means, for blast cabinets, the food weight which can be processed (by the blast cabinet) to below 10 °C in the case of chilling and below – 18 °C in the case of freezing in a single operation;

(e) ‘continuous process blast equipment’ means a blast cabinet provided with a conveyor belt to feed foodstuff through, to allow continuous process for blast chilling or freezing of the foodstuff;

(f) ‘foodstuffs’ means food, ingredients, beverages, including wine, and other items primarily intended for consumption which require refrigeration at specified temperatures;

(g) ‘built-in cabinet’ means a fixed insulated refrigerating appliance intended to be installed in a cabinet, in a prepared recess in a wall or similar location, and requiring furniture finishing;

(h) ‘roll-in cabinet’ means a professional refrigerated storage cabinet including one unique compartment that allows wheeled racks of product to be wheeled in;

(i) ‘pass-through cabinet’ means a professional refrigerated storage cabinet accessible from both sides;

(j) ‘static air cabinet’ means a professional refrigerated storage cabinet without internal forced-air circulation, specifically designed to store temperature-sensitive foodstuffs or to avoid a drying effect on foodstuffs stored without a sealed enclosure, where a single static air compartment within the cabinet is not sufficient to designate the cabinet as a static air cabinet;

(k) ‘heavy-duty cabinet’ means a professional refrigerated storage cabinet capable of continuously maintaining chilled or frozen operating temperature in all its compartment(s) in ambient conditions corresponding to climate class 5, as detailed in Table 3 of Annex IV;

(l) ‘open cabinet’ means a professional refrigerated storage cabinet whose refrigerated enclosure can be reached from the outside without opening a door or a drawer, where the mere presence of one compartment which can be reached from the outside without opening a door or a drawer, with a net volume equivalent to less than 20 % of the professional refrigerated storage cabinet's total volume, is not sufficient to qualify it as such;

(m) ‘saladette’ means a professional refrigerated storage cabinet with one or more doors or drawer fronts in the vertical plane that has cut-outs in the top surface into which temporary storage bins can be inserted for easy-access storage of foodstuffs such as, but not limited to, pizza toppings or salad items;

(n) ‘chest freezer’ means a food freezer in which the compartment(s) is accessible from the top of the appliance or which has both top-opening type and upright type compartments but where the gross volume of the top-opening type compartment(s) exceeds 75 % of the total gross volume of the appliance;

(o) ‘condensing unit’ means a product integrating at least one electrically driven compressor and one condenser, capable of cooling down and continuously maintaining low or medium temperature inside a refrigerated appliance or system, using a vapour compression cycle once connected to an evaporator and an expansion device;

(p) ‘low temperature’ means that the condensing unit is capable of delivering its rated cooling capacity at a saturated evaporating temperature of – 35 °C;

(q) ‘medium temperature’ means that the condensing unit is capable of delivering its rated cooling capacity at a saturated evaporating temperature of – 10 °C;

(r) ‘rated cooling capacity’ means the cooling capacity which the condensing unit allows the vapour compression cycle to reach, once connected to an evaporator and an expansion device, when operating at full load, and measured at standard rating conditions with the reference ambient temperature set at 32 °C, expressed in kW;

(s) ‘process chiller’ means a product integrating at least one compressor and one evaporator, capable of cooling down and continuously maintaining the temperature of a liquid in order to provide cooling to a refrigerated appliance or system; it may or may not integrate the condenser, the coolant circuit hardware and other ancillary equipment;

(t) ‘low temperature’ means that the process chiller is capable of delivering its rated cooling capacity at an indoor heat exchanger outlet temperature of – 25 °C, at standard rating conditions;

(u) ‘medium temperature’ means that the process chiller is capable of delivering its rated cooling capacity at an indoor heat exchanger outlet temperature of – 8 °C, at standard rating conditions;

(v) ‘high temperature’ means that the process chiller is capable of delivering its rated cooling capacity at an indoor heat exchanger outlet temperature of 7 °C, at standard rating conditions;

(w) ‘rated cooling capacity’, expressed in kW, means the cooling capacity that the process chiller is able to reach, when operating at full load, and measured at standard rating conditions with the reference ambient temperature at 35 °C for air-cooled chillers and 30 °C water inlet temperature at the condenser for water-cooled chillers.

(x) ‘compressor pack’ or ‘compressor rack’ means a product incorporating at least one or more electrically driven refrigeration compressor(s) and a control system;

(y) ‘absorption chiller’ means a process chiller in which refrigeration is effected by an absorption process using heat as the energy source;

(z) ‘evaporative condensing chiller’ means a process chiller equipped with an evaporating condenser, in which the refrigerant is cooled by a combination of air movement and water spray.

Article 3

Ecodesign requirements and timetable

Ecodesign requirements shall apply in accordance with the following timetable:

(a) From 1 July 2016: (1) condensing units shall comply with the requirements set out in points 1(a) and 2 of Annex V; (2) process chillers shall comply with the requirements set out in points 1(a) and 2 of Annex VII. (3) professional refrigerated storage cabinets shall comply with the requirements set out in points 1(a)(i) and 2(a) of Annex II; (4) heavy-duty cabinets shall comply with the requirements set out in point 1(b) and 2(a) of Annex II. (5) Blast cabinets shall comply with requirements set out in point 2(b) of Annex II.

(b) From 1 January 2018: (1) professional refrigerated storage cabinets shall comply with requirements set out in point 1(a)(ii) of Annex II.

(c) From 1 July 2018: (1) condensing units shall comply with the requirements set out in point 1(b) of Annex V; (2) process chillers shall comply with the requirements set out in point 1(b) of Annex VII.

(d) From 1 July 2019: (1) professional refrigerated storage cabinets shall comply with requirements set out in point 1(a)(iii) of Annex II.

Article 4

Conformity assessment

Article 5

Verification procedure for market surveillance purposes

The authorities of the Member States shall apply the verification procedure set out in Annex IX, Annex X and Annex XI when performing the market surveillance checks referred to in Article 3(2) of Directive 2009/125/EC to ensure compliance with the requirements set out in Annex II, Annex V and Annex VII to this Regulation.

Article 6

Indicative benchmarks

The indicative benchmarks for best-performing professional refrigerated storage cabinets, condensing units and process chillers available on the market at the time of entry into force of this Regulation are set out in Annex XII.

Article 7

Review

The Commission shall review this Regulation in the light of technological progress and present the results of that review to the Consultation Forum no later than five years from the date of entry into force of this Regulation. The review shall include the following:

(a) ecodesign requirements for cabinets listed in Article 1(1); (b) stricter requirements for heavy-duty cabinets; (c) information requirement on a professional refrigerated storage cabinet's capacity to cool down foodstuffs; (d) a method for determining the standard annual energy consumption for refrigerator-freezers; (e) a revised method for the standard annual energy consumption of counter cabinets;

(a) an assessment of the appropriateness of setting ecodesign requirements covering direct greenhouse gas emissions related to refrigerants; (b) an assessment of the appropriateness of setting ecodesign requirements for condensing units with a rated cooling capacity lower than 0,1 kW at low temperature and 0,2 kW at medium temperature and condensing units with a rated cooling capacity higher than 20 kW at low temperature and 50 kW at medium temperature; (c) an assessment of the appropriateness of setting ecodesign requirements for condensing units sold with an evaporator, compressor packs and racks which do not include a condenser, and condensing units which do not use air as heat transfer medium for the condenser; (d) an assessment of the appropriateness of setting ecodesign requirements for process chillers using evaporative condensing and process chillers using absorption technology;

Article 8

Entry into force

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

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

ANNEX I

Definitions applicable for Annexes II to XII

For the purposes of Annexes II to XII the following definitions shall apply:

Definitions related to professional refrigerated storage cabinets and blast cabinets

(1) ‘net volume’ means the volume containing foodstuffs within the load limit;

(2) ‘chilled operating temperature’ means that the temperature of foodstuffs stored in the cabinet is continuously maintained at a temperature between – 1 °C and 5 °C;

(3) ‘frozen operating temperature’ means that the temperature of foodstuffs stored in the cabinet is continuously maintained at a temperature lower than – 15 °C, which is understood as the highest temperature of the warmest package test;

(4) ‘multi-use cabinet’ means that a professional refrigerated storage cabinet or separate compartment of the same cabinet may be set at different temperatures for chilled or frozen foodstuffs;

(5) ‘combined cabinet’ means a professional refrigerated storage cabinet including two or more compartments with different temperatures for the refrigeration and storage of foodstuffs;

(6) ‘refrigerator-freezer’ means a type of combined cabinet including at least one compartment exclusively intended for chilled operating temperature and one compartment exclusively intended for frozen operating temperature;

(7) ‘vertical cabinet’ means a professional refrigerated storage cabinet of overall height equal to or higher than 1 050 mm with one or more front doors or drawers accessing the same compartment;

(8) ‘counter cabinet’ means a professional refrigerated storage cabinet of overall height lower than 1 050 mm with one or more front doors or drawers accessing the same compartment;

(9) ‘light-duty cabinet’, also known as ‘semi-professional cabinet’, means a professional refrigerated storage cabinet only capable of continuously maintaining chilled or frozen operating temperature in all its compartment(s) in ambient conditions corresponding to climate class 3, as detailed in Table 3 of Annex IV; if the cabinet is able to maintain temperature in ambient conditions corresponding to climate class 4, it shall not be considered a light-duty cabinet;

(10) ‘equivalent professional refrigerated storage cabinet’ means a professional refrigerated storage cabinet model placed on the market with the same net volume, same technical, efficiency and performance characteristics, and same compartment types and volumes as another professional refrigerated storage cabinet model placed on the market under a different commercial code number by the same manufacturer;

(11) ‘equivalent blast cabinet’ means a blast cabinet model placed on the market with the same technical, efficiency and performance characteristics, as another blast cabinet model placed on the market under a different commercial code number by the same manufacturer;

Definitions related to condensing units

(12) ‘rated cooling capacity’ (PA) means the cooling capacity that the condensing unit enables the vapour compression cycle to reach, once connected to an evaporator and an expansion device, when operating at full load, and measured at standard rating conditions with the reference ambient temperature set at 32 °C, expressed in kW to two decimal places;

(13) ‘rated power input’ (DA) means the electrical power input needed by the condensing unit (including the compressor, the condenser fan(s) and possible auxiliaries) to reach the rated cooling capacity, expressed in kW to two decimal places;

(14) ‘rated coefficient of performance’ (COPA) means the rated cooling capacity, expressed in kW, divided by the rated power input, expressed in kW, expressed to two decimal places;

(15) ‘coefficients of performance COPB, COPC and COPD’ mean the cooling capacity, expressed in kW, divided by the power input, expressed in kW, expressed to two decimal places at rating points B, C and D;

(16) ‘seasonal energy performance ratio’ (SEPR) is the efficiency ratio of a condensing unit for providing cooling at standard rating conditions, representative of the variations in load and ambient temperature throughout the year, and calculated as the ratio between annual cooling demand and annual electricity consumption, expressed to two decimal places;

(17) ‘annual cooling demand’ means the sum of each bin-specific cooling demand multiplied by the corresponding number of bin hours;

(18) ‘bin-specific cooling demand’ means the cooling demand for every bin in the year, calculated as the rated cooling capacity multiplied by the part load ratio, expressed in kW to two decimal places;

(19) ‘part load’ (Pc(Tj)) means the cooling load at a specific ambient temperature Tj, calculated as the full load multiplied by the part load ratio corresponding to the same ambient temperature Tj and expressed in kW at two decimal places;