Commission Regulation (EU) 2024/1103 of 18 April 2024 implementing Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards ecodesign requirements for local space heaters and separate related controls and repealing Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/1188

1 This Regulation lays down ecodesign requirements for the placing on the market and putting into service of domestic local space heaters with a nominal heat output of 50 kW or less and commercial local space heaters with a nominal heat output of the product or a single tube segment heat output of 300 kW or less. This Regulation also lays down ecodesign requirements for separate related controls.

2 This Regulation shall not apply to: (a) local space heaters using a vapour compression cycle or sorption cycle for the generation of heat driven by electricity or fuel; (b) local space heaters designed, tested, marketed and declared exclusively for outdoor use; (c) local space heaters of which the direct heat output is less than 6 % of the combined direct heat output and indirect heat output at nominal heat output; (d) air heating products; (e) sauna stoves; (f) cooking appliances.

3 Manufacturers, importers or authorised representatives shall not consider a product to fall outside the scope of this Regulation on the basis of paragraph 2, if the design, the technical characteristics, the intended use, the marketing claims or any other information provided by the manufacturer, importer or authorised representative accompanying that product do not sufficiently distinguish it from local space heaters covered by this Regulation.

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply: (1) ‘local space heater’ means a device equipped with one or more heat generators to convert electricity from the mains or gaseous or liquid fuels directly into heat output to provide thermal comfort for human beings in the enclosed space in which it is situated by direct heat transfer, possibly combined with heat output to other spaces or with heat transfer to a fluid; (2) ‘domestic local space heater’ means a local space heater other than a commercial local space heater; (3) ‘nominal heat output’ (Pnom) means the heat output of a local space heater comprising both direct heat output and indirect heat output (where applicable), when operating at the setting for the maximum heat output that can be maintained over an extended period, as declared by the manufacturer, expressed in kW; (4) ‘commercial local space heater’ means either a luminous local space heater or a tube local space heater; (5) ‘luminous local space heater’ means a gaseous fuel local space heater or a liquid fuel local space heater equipped with a burner, to be installed above head level directed towards the place of use so that the heat emitted by the burner, being predominantly infrared radiation, directly warms the people to be heated, being the products of combustion evacuated in the space where the heater is placed; (6) ‘tube local space heater’ means a gaseous fuel or liquid fuel local space heater equipped with a burner, to be installed above head level near the people to be heated, that heats the space primarily by infrared radiation from the tube(s) or strip(s) heated by the internal passage of products of combustion, being the products of combustion evacuated through a flue duct; (7) ‘tube segment’ means a part of a tube local space heater that comprises all the elements needed for stand-alone operation and can therefore be tested independently of the other tube heating system parts; (8) ‘tube segment heat output’ means the heat output of a tube segment which together with other tube segments forms part of a configuration of a tube heater system, expressed in kW; (9) ‘tube heater system’ means a tube local space heater comprising more than one single tube segment, of which the products of combustion of one tube segment may feed into the next tube segment, and of which the products of combustion of multiple tube segments are to be evacuated by a single exhaust fan; (10) ‘direct heat output’ means the heat output of the product by radiation and convection of heat, as emitted by or from the product itself to air, excluding the heat output of the product to a heat transfer fluid, expressed in kW; (11) ‘indirect heat output’ means the heat output of the product to a heat transfer fluid by the same heat generation process that provides the direct heat output of the product, expressed in kW; (12) ‘air heating product’ means an air heating product as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/2281 ; (13) ‘sauna stove’ means a space heating product, designed, tested, marketed and declared exclusively to be used in, dry or wet sauna’s or similar environments; (14) ‘cooking appliance’ means an appliance or part of it that incorporates one or more cavities using electricity, gas or both, to prepare food by means of a conventional or fan-forced mode; (15) ‘gaseous fuel local space heater’ means a local space heater using gaseous fuel; (16) ‘liquid fuel local space heater’ means a local space heater using liquid fuel; (17) ‘equivalent model’ means a model placed on the market with the same technical parameters set out in Annex II, Table 1, Table 2, Table 3, Table 4, Table 5 or Table 6 as another model placed on the market by the same manufacturer; (18) ‘control’ means the equipment that provides one or more control functions and that interfaces with the end-user to regulate the heat output of a local space heater in scope of this Regulation; (19) ‘control function’ means each of the different control functions according to Table 10 and Table 11 of Annex III for the control of a local space heater; (20) ‘separate related control’ means a control intended to be used with local space heaters in scope of this Regulation but placed on the market separately; (21) ‘declared values’ means the values provided by the manufacturer, importer or authorised representative for the stated, calculated or measured technical parameters in accordance with Article 4, for the verification of compliance by the Member State authorities; (22) ‘model identifier’ means the code, usually alphanumeric, which distinguishes a specific product model from other models with the same trade mark or the same manufacturer’s, importer’s or authorised representative’s name.

1 Local space heaters and separate related controls referred to in Article 1, shall meet the ecodesign requirements set out in Annex II.

2 Compliance with ecodesign requirements shall be measured and calculated in accordance with the methods set out in Annex III and Annex IV.

1 The conformity assessment procedure referred to in Article 8(2) of Directive 2009/125/EC shall be the internal design control set out in Annex IV to that Directive or the management system for assessing conformity set out in Annex V to that Directive.

2 For the purposes of the conformity assessment pursuant to Article 8 of Directive 2009/125/EC, the technical documentation shall contain the declared values of the parameters listed in point 6 of Annex II to this Regulation and the details and results of the calculations undertaken in accordance with Annex III to this Regulation.

3 Where the information included in the technical documentation for a particular model has been obtained from either of the following means, the technical documentation shall include the details of the calculation, the assessment undertaken by the manufacturer to verify the accuracy of the calculation and, where appropriate, the declaration of identity between the models of different manufacturers: (a) from a model that has the same technical characteristics relevant for the technical information to be provided but is produced by a different manufacturer, or (b) by calculation on the basis of design or extrapolation from another model of the same or a different manufacturer, or both.

4 The technical documentation shall include a list of all equivalent models, including the model identifier.

Member States shall apply the verification procedure set out in Annex V to this Regulation when performing the market surveillance checks referred to in Article 3(2) of Directive 2009/125/EC.

1 Manufacturers, importers or authorised representatives shall not place on the market or put into service local space heaters or separate related controls designed to alter their behaviour or properties when being tested, in order to obtain a more favourable result for any of the declared values of the parameters set out in this Regulation.

2 Manufacturers, importers or authorised representatives shall not prescribe test instructions, specifically for when local space heaters or separate related controls are being tested, that have the effect of altering the behaviour or properties of those heaters or of those separate related controls in order to obtain a more favourable result for any of the declared values of the parameters set out in this Regulation.

3 Manufacturers, importers or authorised representatives shall not place on the market or put into service local space heaters or separate related controls designed to alter their behaviour or properties within a short period after being put into service resulting in a degrading of any of the declared values of the parameters set out in this Regulation.

1 Software or firmware updates shall not worsen any declared value for the parameters of a local space heater or separate related control when measured using the testing method applicable at the time of them being placed on the market or put into service.

2 No change of any declared value for the parameters of a local space heater or separate related control when measured using the testing method applicable at the time of them being placed on the market or put into service shall occur as a result of rejecting the update.

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

By 9 May 2029, the Commission shall review this Regulation in the light of technological progress and shall present the results of that review including, if appropriate, a draft revision proposal, to the Consultation Forum. In particular, the review shall assess: whether it is appropiate to set stricter ecodesign requirements for energy efficiency and pollutant emissions; whether the verification tolerances should be modified; the validity of the correction factors used to assess the seasonal space heating energy efficiency of local space heaters; whether it is appropriate to introduce third party certification; whether it is appropriate to include into the scope of this Regulation local space heaters for outdoor use only, sauna stoves and software controls; whether it is appropriate to set additional resource efficiency requirements in accordance with the objectives of the circular economy, including whether more spare parts should be available, whether critical raw material requirements should be set, whether additional requirements for the availability of spare parts should be set; whether the lifetime of local space heaters has decreased due to the introduction of more advanced controls and the appropriateness of revising the requirements related to controls and their application to ensure the longest possible lifetime; whether it is appropriate to set additional requirements for the upgradeability of controls.

Regulation (EU) 2015/1188 is repealed as of 1 July 2025.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall apply from 1 July 2025. However, Article 6 shall apply from 9 May 2024.