Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/1353 of 1 July 2025 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2534 on household tumble dryers regarding information on repairability and clarifying some aspects of the measurement and calculation methods, the product information sheet, the technical documentation and the verification procedure

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2017/1369 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2017 setting a framework for energy labelling and repealing Directive 2010/30/EU (1), and in particular Article 16(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2534 (2) lays down harmonised requirements for the labelling of household tumble dryers, enabling customers to make informed purchasing decisions based on the energy efficiency and supplementary information about the appliances. Article 3 of that Regulation also specifies the content and format of the product information sheet and technical documentation and requires suppliers to enter the relevant parameters in the European Product Registry for Energy Labelling (EPREL).

(2) It is important to address the significant decrease in the lifespan of household tumble dryers over the last 15 years, which has prompted an increase in the rate of production to compensate for the shorter lifetime. Providing information on the repairability of tumble dryers through a repairability index could generate several environmental, social and economic benefits by encouraging consumers to choose more repairable products. The repairability index should be calculated on the basis of parameters that are relevant for assessing the ease of repair of a household tumble dryer.

(3) As from 1 January 2027, any household tumble dryer placed on the market should be accompanied by a label and a product information sheet containing repairability information. In order to ensure a smooth introduction of the repairability index, suppliers could provide labels that include the repairability information in advance of the mandatory deadline of 1 January 2027, instead of labels without the repairability information.

(4) Since the implementation of a repairability index does not involve a rescaling of the label, dealers should be allowed, after 1 January 2027 to sell, without limitation of time household tumble dryers placed on the market before that date, with labels that do not include the repairability index.

(5) In order to improve repairability of household tumble dryers, an additional element should be included in the review provided for by Article 7 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2534, namely the assessment of the possibility to include heat pumps among the priority parts taken into account when calculating the repairability index.

(6) In order to ensure legal certainty relevant definitions regarding the repairability index and the average final moisture content should be added.

(7) In order to help consumers to make informed choices about household tumble dryers degree of repair and maintenance, the relevant repairability class should be included in the energy labels for both condenser and non-condenser household tumble dryers, ranging from A to E, where the top class A corresponds to household tumble dryers with the best repairability indexes and the lower class E to household tumble dryers with the worst repairability indexes.

(8) The term ‘logo’ should be replaced by ‘pictogram’ in the description of the label provided in Annex III, to be consistent with other delegated acts on energy labelling. Furthermore, the reference to the EU Ecolabel should be deleted from Annex III, since the EU Ecolabel is no longer awarded.

(9) A method for the calculation of the repairability index of household tumble dryers, allowing to assign a repairability class to each model of household tumble dryers, should be defined.

(10) The calculation of the repairability index should be carried out through a formula based on specific scoring parameters which have been considered relevant to determine the easiness of repair for each model of household tumble dryer. Those scoring parameters are the disassembly depth, the fasteners type, the tools type and the repair information.

(11) Except for the repair information, which must be assessed at product level, the other three scoring parameters should be evaluated at the level of the part of the household tumble dryer to be replaced. For this reason, priority parts have been selected and included in the formula of each scoring parameter, with a weighted average reflecting the relevance of each priority part in terms of sales and failure rates.

(12) The description of the disassembly steps used to calculate the disassembly depth scoring parameter, should be consistent with the repair and maintenance information to be provided to professional repairers.

(13) It is appropriate to remove from the information to be provided in the technical documentation of the product, the details of the calculation method of the average final moisture content of the eco programme which were originally set in Annex IV, point 1(g) to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2534. It has been noticed that obtaining 0 % value in the average final moisture content is frequently accompanied by undesired negative side effects, in terms of textiles heat damage from overdrying and excessive consumption of energy, which are to be avoided. Instead, the measurement and calculation methods provided for in the harmonised standards should be used to calculate this parameter as these provide for appropriate tolerances.

(14) In order to ensure consumers informed choices and encourage sustainable consumption, information on the repairability index and the partial scores for each of the scoring parameters should be part of the product information sheet. To avoid unnecessary administrative burden for suppliers, only changes in the global score of the repairability index of a product should be deemed relevant for the definition of a new model. On the opposite, changes in the partial calculations of the scoring parameters that do not alter the global reparability index are deemed not relevant.

(15) In order to avoid confusion for suppliers and market surveillance authorities, the content of the technical documentation including the relevant reparability information should be clarified.

(16) Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2534 should therefore be amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Amending provisions

Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2534 is amended as follows:

(4) in Article 10, the second paragraph is replaced by the following: ‘It shall apply from 1 July 2025. However, Article 9 shall apply from 1 January 2024 and Article 3(1) and (1a) shall apply as set out therein.’;

(5) Annexes I, II and III are amended in accordance with Annex I to this Regulation;

(6) the text set out in Annex II to this Regulation, is inserted as Annex IIIa;

(7) Annexes IV and V are amended in accordance with Annex III to this Regulation;

(8) the text set out in Annex IV to this Regulation is inserted as Annex Va;

(9) Annex VI is amended in accordance with Annex V to this Regulation;

(10) the text set out in Annex VI to this Regulation is inserted as Annex VIa;

(11) Annexes VII, VIII, IX and X are amended in accordance with Annex VII to this Regulation.

Article 2

Entry into force and application

This Regulation shall enter into force on the fourth 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.

Done at Brussels, 1 July 2025.

For the Commission The President Ursula VON DER LEYEN

(1) OJ L 198, 28.7.2017, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2017/1369/oj.

(2) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2534 of 13 July 2023 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1369 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to energy labelling of household tumble dryers and repealing Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 392/2012 (OJ L, 2023/2534, 22.11.2023, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2023/2534/oj).