The 2nd stakeholder meeting for EU Ecodesign Lot 9 preparatory study on enterprise servers and data equipment was held in Brussels on October 13, 2014. Minutes and presentations from the meeting are available on the study website.
Much of the discussion raised by stakeholders during the meeting focused on the large variation in how equipment within the scope of this study is used and the impact of operating systems and software. Consequently, it’s difficult to develop well defined regulatory requirements on energy efficiency and other environmental performance criteria.
The next steps in the preparatory study (see Figure 1) include:
- Submission of stakeholder responses to questionnaire on best available technologies (BAT) by November 14.
- Draft final report in February 2015
- Next Stakeholder meeting is planned for March 2015
Final report is scheduled for May 2015.