European Eco-design Compliance Project (ECOPLIANT)
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Key action:
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Equipment and products |
| Status: |
Ongoing |
| Coordinator: |
Iain Notman
Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, United Kingdom
E-mail: iain.notman@defra.gsi.gov.uk
Tel: +44(0)20 7238 6474
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| Partners: |
Danish Energy Agency (DEA), Denmark
Safety and Chemicals Agency (TUKES), Finland
Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Germany
Hungarian Trade Licensing Office (MKEH), Hungary
Department of Communication, Energy & Natural Resources (DCENR), Ireland
Enter per le Nuove Tecnologie l`Energia e l`Ambiente (ENEA), Italy
Dutch Ministry of Environment in VROM Inspectorate (VI), Netherlands
Foundation for the Promotion of Industrial Innovation (FFII-LCOE), Spain
Swedish Energy Agency (STEM), Sweden
Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), United Kingdom
National Measurement Office (NMO), United Kingdom
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| Website: |
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| Benefits: |
The results from this action will be used to create a framework for a coordinated programme for European market surveillance for eco-design. The consortium will work together with other MSAs across the EEA and with an advisory group of business, consumer organisations and environmental NGOs.
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| Keywords: |
Market surveillance, Monitoring enforcement and verification, Compliance; Energy-using products, Eco-design directive, Energy efficiency
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| Duration: |
21/04/2012 - 20/04/2015 |
| Budget: |
EUR 2 369 856 (EU contribution: 75%) |
| Contract number: |
IEE/11/030/SI2.615923 |
The objective of ECOPLIANT is to help deliver the intended economic and environmental benefits of the Eco-Design Directive 2009/125/EC by strengthening market surveillance and so increasing compliance with the Directive and the relevant implementing measures.
ECOPLIANT will achieve this by establishing systems to coordinate, in the most cost-effective manner, the monitoring, verification and enforcement (MV&E) of eco-design requirements across the European Single Market; and by increasing knowledge and experience of best practice amongst Market Surveillance Authorities (MSAs).
ECOPLIANT will enhance the functioning of the European Single Market by ensuring that eco-design requirements are applied consistently and effectively across Member States (MS). This will help protect compliant businesses by eliminating unfair competition from non-compliant goods. It will similarly help to ensure that consumers, who purchase energy efficient products, can be confident that these products live up to the energy efficiency claims of the manufacturer.
The ECOPLIANT consortium proposes to carry out a pilot project with ten MSAs. |
- Adoption by Member States of best practices on how to conduct market surveillance most effectively in the Member States.
- Greater compliance due to increased market surveillance of products in the EEA with the Implementing Measures of the Eco-Design Directive.
- Increased awareness of market surveillance by industry and amongst consumers.
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