European Commission

Many of the draft regulations discussed in the Committee meetings below have been since adopted by the Commission. For the text of the adopted regulations, please refer to Ecodesign legislation

Sixth meeting, 27 March 2009

At the meeting of 27 March 2009 the Ecodesign Regulatory Committee, EU Member States experts endorsed the European Commission's draft regulation setting ecodesign requirements for circulators. This Regulation will allow to save by 2020 roughly 25 TWh annually in the EU.

Commission Regulation (EC) implementing Directive 2005/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to ecodesign requirements for glandless standalone circulators and glandless circulators integrated in products [53 KB]

Fourth meeting, 8 December 2008

At the meeting of 8 December 2008 the Ecodesign Regulatory Committee, EU Member States experts endorsed the European Commission's draft regulation progressively phasing out incandescent bulbs starting in 2009 and finishing at the end of 2012. By enforcing the regulation of switching to energy saving bulbs, EU citizens will save close to 40 TWh (roughly the electrictity consumption of Romania, or of 11 million European households, or the equivalent of the yearly output of 10 power stations of 500 megawatts) and will lead to a reduction of about 15 million tons of CO2 emission per year.

Member States approve the phasing-out of incandescent bulbs by 2012 [IP/08/1909, 08/12/2008]All available translations.

Technical briefing [457 KB]

Draft Commission Regulation implementing Directive 2005/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to ecodesign requirements for non-directional household lamps [393 KB] All available translations. (click for other language versions)

The draft (in English) is available in the other Community languages as well, but please note that these translations might be refined after linguistic check

The Draft Regulation has been submitted to the European Parliament and to the Council for scrutiny.

Second meeting, 26 September 2008

During its second meeting held on 26 September 2008 the Committee on the Ecodesign and Energy Labelling of Energy-using Products (EELEP) endorsed the

Draft Proposal for a Commission Regulation implementing Directive 2005/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to ecodesign requirements for simple set-top boxes [81 KB]

Draft Proposal for a Commission Regulation implementing Directive 2005/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to ecodesign requirements for fluorescent lamps without integrated ballast, for high intensity discharge lamps, and for ballasts and luminaires able to operate such lamps, and repealing Directive 2000/55/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council [286 KB]

The Draft Proposals will be now submitted to the European Parliament and to the Council for scrutiny.