The European Implementing Measure for compute servers and data storage products was published in the EU Official Journal[1] as COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) 2019/424 on March 18, 2019.  The scope, requirements and implementation dates are the same as indicated in our November 2018 ECD report.

The new regulation imposes requirements on:

• PSU efficiency,
• idle state power,
• active state efficiency based on the SEEM/SERT 2 metric,
• repair and reuse requirements (referred to as material efficiency),
• information provided to end-users,