{"id":429,"date":"2014-07-14T16:05:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T20:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/?p=429"},"modified":"2015-01-06T19:23:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T00:23:28","slug":"eu-ecodesign-requirements-for-computers-come-into-effect-july-1-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/2014\/07\/14\/eu-ecodesign-requirements-for-computers-come-into-effect-july-1-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Ecodesign Requirements for Computers Come into Effect &#8211; July 1, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first phase of energy efficiency requirements specified in the European Ecodesign regulation for computers and computer servers (Commission Regulation (EU) No 617\/2013) came into effect on July 1, 2014. Compliance with the regulation, an implementing measure under the Ecodesign (ErP) framework Directive, is a CE mark requirement and is mandatory for selling computers and computer servers in the EU.<\/p>\n<p>The regulation established relatively aggressive energy efficiency requirements (in comparison to Energy Star version 5.2). In general, the Ecodesign regulation has a broader scope than the Energy Star specification for computers; however, there are a few important exclusions to the scope of the products covered. Energy efficiency requirements come into effect in two phases. The first phase took effect on July 1 2014 and the second (more aggressive) phase takes effect 18 months later on January 1 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Article 1, paragraph 2 establishes the scope of the implementing measure as &#8220;the following products that can be powered directly from the mains alternating current (AC) including via an external or internal power supply: &#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>desktop computers;<\/li>\n<li>integrated desktop computers;<\/li>\n<li>notebook computers (including tablet computers, slate computers and mobile thin clients);<\/li>\n<li>desktop thin clients;<\/li>\n<li>workstations;<\/li>\n<li>mobile workstations;<\/li>\n<li>small-scale servers;<\/li>\n<li>computer servers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, Article 1, paragraph 3 goes on to exclude specific product groups including: blade system and components, server appliances, multi-node servers, computer servers with more than four processor sockets, game consoles, and docking stations.<\/p>\n<p>Regulation 617\/2013 employs a product categorization taxonomy similar to the US Energy Star Version 5.2 specification. For example, both documents categorize desktop computers as either category A, category B, category C, or category D depending on the performance characteristics of the system \u2013 category D is the highest performance desktop computer with a minimum of four physical cores in the CPU and other performance enhancing features as specified in the regulation. Similarly, notebook computers are categorized as Category A, Category B, or Category C based on the performance features. Energy Star moved away from this taxonomy in the Version 6.0 computer specification which makes a direct comparison more difficult.<\/p>\n<p>With respect to energy efficiency targets, Commission Regulation (EU) No 617\/2013 is generally more frugal than Energy Star (particularly the 5.2 specification). For example, Desktop category A computers must have a total annual energy consumption (ETEC) of no more than 133 kWh\/year (starting July 1, 2014) and 94 kWh\/year (starting January 1, 2016). This is aggressive in comparison to the 148 kWh\/year specified in the Energy Star 5.2 specification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first phase of energy efficiency requirements specified in the European Ecodesign regulation for computers and computer servers (Commission Regulation (EU) No 617\/2013) came into effect on July 1, 2014. Compliance with the regulation, an implementing measure under the Ecodesign (ErP) framework Directive, is a CE mark requirement and is mandatory for selling computers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-regulations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rohs.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}