- By maike.hepp
- Published 7 years ago
Topten calculates the EEI for hundreds of products and checks declarations in online shops: read the Topten Market Surveillance Report for full information.
The overall goal of this activity is to contribute to the efforts of market surveillance – to ensure that the information provided on the energy label is correct, and that the retailers provide the energy labels and the product fiche to consumers in the prescribed form. These activities were performed under the Horizon 2020 project Topten ACT.
The activities within this task have been performed by the Topten Partners in the following three ways:
- All 15 National Partners and the Topten.eu EU-level portal have focused attention on the EEI calculation. Each partner has calculated ten products from the main category of products which they are publishing online. The individual products for the Energy Efficiency Index (EEI) calculation have been selected randomly, but ensuring a variety of brands represented. In total, the EEI calculations have been made for some 730 products in six key product categories in total. It can be confirmed that in the majority of cases of the EEI calculations have confirmed the energy efficiency class declarations provided by the Manufacturer on the energy label, with only some modifcations occurred.
- Selected partners have also monitored the proper presence of energy label display in main e-shops. Shops were also selected randomly, but selecting the ones with significant Market Share – therefore used by large number of Customers in selecting their new home appliances. In total, 29 shops have been reviewed, and 4 768 products have been monitored, mainly within the white goods, TVs and lamps. Eshop organisers where inacurate label disply has been found have also received a retailer guide for the proper label display.
- In addition, project organisers have also monitored the publicly available information on product testing for energy efficiency compliance verification.