Ecodesign Requirements for Air Conditioners and Comfort Fans

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta Nru. 19,098, 14 ta’ Ġunju, 2013 B 2195

L.N. 156 of 2013

PRODUCT SAFETY ACT

(CAP. 427)

Ecodesign Requirements for Air Conditioners and Comfort Fans

(Implementation) Regulations, 2013

IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 38, 39 and 40 of

the Product Safety Act, the Minister for Social Dialogue, Consumer

Affairs and Civil Liberties, on the advice of the Malta Competition

and Consumer Affairs Authority, has made the following

regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Ecodesign Citation.

Requirements for Air Conditioners and Comfort Fans

(Implementation) Regulations, 2013.

These regulations implement the requirements set by Applicability or

Regulation (EC) No 206/2012 of the European Commission of 6 otherwise

these

March 2012 implementing Directive 2009/125/EC of the European regulations.

Parliament and of the Council with regard to ecodesign requirements

for air conditioners and comfort fans. Regulation (EC) No 206/2012

establishes eco-design requirements for the placing on the market of

electric mains-operated air conditioners with a rated capacity of ≤ 12

kW for cooling, or heating if the product has no cooling function, and

comfort fans with an electric fan power input ≤ 125W. In the

implementation of the above-mentioned (EC) No 206/2012, these

regulations shall apply to

(a)

appliances that use non-electric energy sources;

(b) air conditioners of which the condenser-side or

evaporator-side, or both, do not use air for heat transfer

medium.

For the purpose of Articles 4 and 5 of Regulation (EC) No Authority

206/2012, the Technical Regulations Division, as established by the responsible

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Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority Act, shall be the compliance.

competent authority.

The penalties applicable for the infringement of the Applicable

provisions of Regulation (EC) No 206/2012 shall be those provided penalties.

for in Part IV of the Product Safety Act.

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