Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/340 of 17 December 2020 amending Delegated Regulations (EU) 2019/2013, (EU) 2019/2014, (EU) 2019/2015, (EU) 2019/2016, (EU) 2019/2017 and (EU) 2019/2018 with regard to energy labelling requirements for electronic displays, household washing machines and household washer-dryers, light sources, refrigerating appliances, household dishwashers, and refrigerating appliances with a direct sales function (Text with EEA relevance)

Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2013 is amended as follows: (1) in Article 1(2), point (g) is replaced by the following: ‘(g) electronic displays that are components or sub-assemblies as defined in point 2 of Article 2 of Directive 2009/125/EC;’; (2) Article 2 is amended as follows: (a) point (10) is replaced by the following: ‘(10) “HiNA” means High Network Availability as defined in Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1275/2008 ; (b) point (17) is deleted; (3) in Article 3(1), point (b) is replaced by the following: ‘(b) the values of the parameters included in the product information sheet, as set out in Annex V, are entered into the public part of the product database;’; (4) Annexes I, II, III, IV, V, VI and IX are amended as set out in Annex I to this Regulation.

Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2014 is amended as follows: (1) in Article 3(1), point (b) is replaced by the following: ‘(b) the values of the parameters included in the product information sheet, as set out in Annex V, are entered into the public part of the product database;’; (2) Annexes I, IV, V, VI, VIII, IX and X are amended as set out in Annex II to this Regulation.

‘1a By way of derogation from Article 11(13)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2017/1369, the supplier shall, when placing a light source on the market, provide it with the existing label until 31 August 2021 and with the rescaled label from 1 September 2021. The supplier may choose to already provide light sources placed on the market during the period from 1 July to 31 August 2021 with the rescaled label, if no light sources belonging to the same model or equivalent models were placed on the market before 1 July 2021. In that case, the dealer shall not offer those light sources for sale before 1 September 2021. The supplier shall notify the dealer concerned of that consequence as soon as possible, including when it includes such light sources in its offers to dealers.’;

Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2016 is amended as follows: (1) in Article 2, point (31) is replaced by the following: ‘(31) “mobile refrigerating appliance” means a refrigerating appliance that can be used where there is no access to the mains electricity grid and that uses extra low-voltage electricity (< 120 V DC) or fuel or both as the energy source for the refrigeration functionality, including a refrigerating appliance that, in addition to extra low voltage electricity or fuel, or both, can be electric mains operated via an external AC/DC converter to be purchased separately. An appliance placed on the market with an AC/DC converter is not a mobile refrigerating appliance;’; (2) in Article 3 point (b) of paragraph 1 is replaced by the following: ‘(b) the values of the parameters included in the product information sheet, as set out in Annex V, are entered into the public part of the product database;’; (3) in Article 11, the last paragraph is replaced by the following: ‘It shall apply from 1 March 2021. However, Article 10 shall apply from 25 December 2019, point 1(a), (b) and (c) of Article 3 shall apply from 1 November 2020, and the obligation to provide the energy efficiency class for the light source parameters referred to in Annex V, Table 6 shall apply from 1 March 2022.’; (4) Annexes I, II, IV, V, VI and IX are amended as set out in Annex IV to this Regulation.

Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2017 is amended as follows: (1) in Article 3(1), point (b) is replaced by the following: ‘(b) the values of the parameters included in the product information sheet, as set out in Annex V, are entered into the public part of the product database;’; (2) Annexes I, II, IV, V, VI and IX are amended as set out in Annex V to this Regulation.

Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2018 is amended as follows: (1) In Article 1(2), point (j) is replaced by the following: ‘(j) corner/curved and carousel cabinets;’; (2) Article 2 is amended as follows: (a) point (15) is replaced by the following: ‘(15) “corner/curved cabinet” means a refrigerating appliance with a direct sales function used to achieve geometrical continuity between two linear cabinets that are at an angle to each other and/or that form a curve. A corner/curved cabinet do not have a recognisable longitudinal axis or length since it consists only of a filling shape (wedge or similar) and is not designed to function as a stand-alone refrigerated unit. The two ends of the corner/curved cabinet are inclined at an angle of between 30° and 90°;’; (b) point (25) is added: ‘(25) “carousel cabinet” means a round/circular shape supermarket cabinet which can be installed as a standalone unit or as a unit connecting two linear supermarket cabinets. Carousel cabinets can also be equipped with a turning system which makes visible the display of foodstuff at 360°.’; (c) point (26) is added: ‘(26) “supermarket cabinet” means a refrigerating appliance with a direct sales function intended for the sale and display of foodstuffs and other items in retail applications, such as in supermarkets. Beverage coolers, refrigerated vending machines, gelato-scooping cabinets and ice-cream freezers are not considered supermarket cabinets.’; (3) in Article 3(1), point (b) is replaced by the following: ‘(b) the values of the parameters included in the product information sheet, as set out in Annex V, are entered into the public part of the product database;’; (4) in Article 9, the last paragraph is replaced by the following: ‘It shall apply from 1 March 2021, with the exception of the obligation to provide the energy efficiency class for the light source parameters referred to in in Annex V, Table 10, part 5, which shall apply from 1 March 2022.’; (5) Annexes I, III, IV, V, VI and IX are amended as set out in Annex VI to this Regulation.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. Article 1(4), Article 2(2), Article 4(4), Article 5(2) and Article 6(5) shall apply from 1 May 2021. Article 3(2)(a) shall apply from 1 May 2021. Article 3(2)(c) shall apply from 1 July 2021. Article 3(1), 3(2)(b), 3(3), and 3(5) shall apply from 1 September 2021.