Commission Regulation (EU) 2025/2052 of 13 October 2025 laying down ecodesign requirements for external power supplies, wireless chargers, wireless charging pads, battery chargers for portable batteries of general use and USB Type-C cables, pursuant to Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/1782

1 This Regulation lays down ecodesign requirements for the placing on the market or putting into service of external power supplies (EPS), battery chargers for portable batteries of general use, wireless chargers, wireless charging pads and USB Type-C cables.

2 This Regulation shall not apply to: (a) uninterruptible power supplies, meaning devices that automatically provide backup power from storage when the electrical power from the mains power source drops to an unacceptable voltage level; (b) separate control gears, as defined in Article 2, first paragraph, point (3), of Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/2020 , with the exception of separate control gears in battery-operated products, as referred to in point 2(c) of Annex III to that Regulation and that do not fall under another exemption referred to in Annex III to that Regulation; (c) separate control gears for luminaires for emergency lighting, as referred to in Annex I to Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/1956 ; (d) separate control gears for low luminous flux light sources; (e) EPS designed, tested and marketed to be used exclusively with medical devices, as defined in Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/745 ; (f) docking stations for autonomous appliances, meaning devices in which a battery-operated appliance that executes tasks requiring the appliance to move without any user intervention places itself for charging; (g) EPS designed, tested and marketed to be used exclusively with means of transport for persons or goods; (h) consumer products for which the primary load of the converted voltage within the consumer products themselves is not supplied to a separate end-use product.

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply: (1) ‘external power supply’ (EPS) means a product which is neither a battery charger nor a wireless charger and meets all the following criteria: (a) it is designed to convert single-phase alternating current (AC) power input from the mains power source into one or more direct current (DC) or AC power outputs; (b) it is capable of being used with one or more separate consumer products that constitute the primary load; (c) it is contained in a physical enclosure that is separate from the consumer product or products that constitute the primary load; (d) it is designed to be connected to the consumer product or products that constitute the primary load with a removable electrical connection, or with hard-wired cables or other wiring; (e) its nameplate output voltage does not exceed 60 V DC or 42,4 V peak AC; (f) it is placed on the market with or without the powered consumer product; (2) ‘battery’ means a battery as defined in Article 3(1), point (1), of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542; (3) ‘battery charger’ means a consumer product that is primarily used to charge the batteries of consumer products, and that contains dedicated circuitry to regulate the charging current and voltage; (4) ‘portable battery of general use’ means a type of battery as defined in Article 3(1), point (10) of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542; (5) ‘wireless charger’ means a consumer product that meets all of the following criteria: (a) it is designed to transmit power not exceeding 50 W by inductive coupling; (b) it contains a power supply integrated into the same unit; (c) it is capable of being used with one or more separate consumer products that constitute the primary load; (d) it is contained in a physical enclosure separate from the consumer product or products that constitute the primary load; (e) it has no electric power source apart from the AC input power; (6) ‘wireless charging pad’ means a consumer product that meets the criteria laid down in letters (a), (c), (d) and (e) of point (5) and does not contain a power supply integrated into the same unit; (7) ‘USB Type-C cable’ means a cable assembly with USB Type-C plugs and overmoulds at both ends, with a power rating of either 60 W or 240 W, that meets the requirements laid down in the ‘Universal Serial Bus Type-C® Cable and Connector Specification, Release 2.4, October 2024’, issued by the USB 3.0 Promoter Group and the Universal Serial Bus Implementers Forum (USB-IF); (8) ‘USB Type-C plug’ means a plug that meets the requirements laid down in the ‘Universal Serial Bus Type-C® Cable and Connector Specification, Release 2.4, October 2024’, issued by the USB 3.0 Promoter Group and the USB-IF; (9) ‘separate control gear for low luminous flux light sources’ means a separate control gear as defined in Article 2, first paragraph, point (3) of Regulation (EU) 2019/2020 whose light source does not fulfil the requirement laid down in point (1)(c) of the same paragraph, and has instead a luminous flux of less than 60 lumen; (10) ‘mains’ means the standard EU electricity supply as specified in standard EN 50160:2022 ‘Voltage characteristics of electricity supplied by public electricity networks’; (11) ‘output’ means a physical outlet of the EPS through which electrical power or data is provided to the load connected to it; (12) ‘power output’ means any of the outputs of the EPS to which a load can be connected and from which power can be drawn, as opposed to signal connections used for communication through a data output; (13) ‘consumer product’ means a product that operates or is designed to operate with electric energy, and is placed on the market, including in the context of providing a service, which is intended for consumers or is likely, under reasonably foreseeable conditions, to be used by consumers even if not intended for them; (14) ‘hard-wired cable’ means a cable directly fixed to a product without any intermediate connector in such a way that it is not designed or intended to be detached by end-users; (15) ‘nameplate output voltage’ means any output voltage of the EPS as provided on the EPS nameplate pursuant to point 5(a) of Annex II to this Regulation, or displayed in Table 7, ‘Product information’, pursuant to point 5(g) of the same Annex; (16) ‘active mode’ means a condition in which the input of an EPS is connected to the mains power source and a power output is connected to a primary load that is in operation; (17) ‘port’ means a physical, electrical and digital interface of the EPS for the supply of electrical power as well as exchange of data and control signals through a receptacle, and that has one corresponding power output; (18) ‘nameplate output power’ (Pout) means any output power of the EPS as provided on the EPS nameplate pursuant to point 5(a) of Annex II to this Regulation, or displayed in Table 7, ‘Product information’, pursuant to point 5(g) of the same Annex; (19) ‘low-voltage EPS’ means an EPS with a nameplate output voltage less than 6 V and a nameplate output current greater than or equal to 550 mA; (20) ‘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; (21) ‘adaptive EPS’ means an AC-DC EPS that can alter the output voltage at one of its ports, denoted as ‘adaptive port’, during the active-mode on the basis of an established digital communication protocol with the end-use application without any user-triggered action; (22) ‘nameplate output current’ means any output current of the EPS as displayed in Table 7, ‘Product information’, pursuant to point 5(g) of Annex II to this Regulation; (23) ‘active mode efficiency’ means the ratio of the power supplied by an EPS in active mode to the input power required by the EPS; (24) ‘receptacle’ means a component of the EPS with an opening to the exterior allowing a plug to be inserted into it and that provides an electro-mechanical connection between the plug and the EPS; (25) ‘total maximum output power’ means the maximum power that can be supplied by any combination or subset of the power outputs of an EPS operated simultaneously; (26) ‘USB power delivery (USB-PD) port’ means an adaptive EPS port that meets the requirements laid down in the ‘Universal Serial Bus Power Delivery Specification, Revision 3.2, Version 1.1, 2024-10’ and the ‘Universal Serial Bus Type-C® Cable and Connector Specification, Release 2.4, October 2024’ issued by the USB 3.0 Promoter Group and the USB-IF; (27) ‘single-voltage EPS’ means an EPS able to convert AC power to only one output voltage at a time which is supplied through one or more power outputs; (28) ‘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; (29) ‘Common Charger logo’ means a logo that meets the requirements set out in Annex III to this Regulation; (30) ‘spare part EPS’ means an EPS which is not an interoperable EPS and is intended solely to replace an EPS placed on the market before 14 December 2028.

EPS, wireless chargers, wireless charging pads, battery chargers for portable batteries of general use and USB Type-C cables shall meet the ecodesign requirements set out in Annex II and Annex III to this Regulation.

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

2 For the purposes of the conformity assessment referred to in Article 8(2) of Directive 2009/125/EC, the technical documentation file shall contain: (a) the declared values of parameters listed in point 6 of Annex II to this Regulation, as applicable; (b) the product information provided in accordance with points 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of the same Annex; and (c) the details and results of the calculations carried out in accordance with Annex IV to this Regulation.

3 Where the information included in the technical documentation for a particular model has been obtained by 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 identifiers.

Member States’ authorities shall apply the verification procedure laid down in Annex V to this Regulation when performing the market surveillance checks referred to in Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 of the European Parliament and of the Council .

The benchmarks for the best-performing products and technologies available on the market at the date of entry into force of this Regulation are as set out in Annex VI to this Regulation.

The Commission shall review this Regulation in the light of technological progress and shall present the results of this review, including, if appropriate, a draft revision proposal, to the Ecodesign Forum pursuant to Article 19 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1781 by 14 December 2030. The review shall assess in particular: (a) the scope of the Regulation and in particular the scope of the interoperability requirements; (b) the interoperability requirements in light of the evolution of adaptive power supplies; (c) the usage and effectiveness of the Common Charger logo; (d) the limit values of the energy efficiency requirements; (e) the tolerances permitted for setting the load currents; (f) the appropriateness of additional efficiency requirements considering power factor correction; (g) the appropriateness of setting up an EPS database with technical information; (h) the appropriateness of active mode energy efficiency requirements for wireless chargers and wireless charging pads; (i) whether part pairing is an element of concern for EPS, wireless chargers or wireless charging pads; (j) the appropriateness of resource efficiency requirements like for example repairability, dismantability or recyclability; (k) the appropriateness of additional information requirements concerning critical raw materials; (l) the appropriateness of durability and reliability requirements, for example considering the lifetime and the mean-time-between-failure.

Regulation (EU) 2019/1782 is repealed with effect from 14 December 2028 except for the provisions laid down in Article 9 of this Regulation.

1 Annexes I, II and III to Regulation (EU) 2019/1782 shall continue to apply to spare part EPS until 14 December 2033 instead of the requirements set out in Annex I, II, III, IV and V to this Regulation, provided that: (a) in the range of products offered by the manufacturer, importer or authorised representative, there is no EPS that can be used with the powered product, which is compliant with this Regulation, except for the interoperability requirements, and (b) the manufacturer, importer or authorised representative clearly indicates on the packaging and the free access website specified in point 2(b) of Annex II to Regulation (EU) 2019/1782 ‘External power supply to be used exclusively as spare part for’, the replaced EPS model, and the powered product(s) they are intended to be used with.

2 Point 1 of Annex II to Regulation (EU) 2019/1782 shall continue to apply to EPS with a USB-PD port with a nameplate output power higher than 100 W until 14 December 2030 instead of the requirements set out in point 1 of Annex II to this Regulation.

3 EPS placed on the market between 14 December 2025 and 14 December 2028 which meet the requirements set out in this Regulation shall be considered to comply with the requirements of Regulation (EU) 2019/1782.

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 14 December 2028. However, point 3 of Article 9 shall apply from 14 December 2025.