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Electrolux Home Products

Electrolux is a European based global household appliance manufacturer.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Christiane Canenbley (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager), Michele Piergiovanni (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager) and

25 Jan 2021 · Commission’s priorities for digital and industrial policy in 2021

Response to Climate change mitigation and adaptation taxonomy

18 Dec 2020

The proposal to set the top two energy label classes as a criteria will have a very different meaning depending on the appliance category as the label scale is not equally ambitious for all categories. In addition, such a criteria will not be sufficiently flexible to handle the evolution of products over time. To complicate things the EU energy label is currently undergoing a major revision, where the A-G scale is revised category by category. The top energy class (A), and potentially also (B), of the new energy label should not be populated from the start of the revised energy label (according to the EU Framework Regulation for Energy labelling). We propose to instead have a dynamic yearly revised criteria, based on data of the appliance performance that is available in the EU mandatory EPREL product registration database. We consider 10-30% of the models on the market can be a good target. The global dimension: Many EU based companies have global operations and need to attract investment to improve operations also outside the EU. If the EU Taxonomy will be applicable to evaluate investments for operations outside the EU, then the references in the proposed screening criteria of Annex I and II to appliances energy labelling ranking will not be directly relevant as appliances produced for markets outside the EU are not evaluated according to the EU energy label ranking. We suggest the following additional wording on page 69 and 54 of the respective Annex I and II point 3.4.e: “..or, for products produced for markets outside the EU, an equivalent level of energy performance according to established international measurement standards that evaluate the energy performance of appliances.” The company will then have to justify how such a comparison is performed.
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