Commission Decision of 9 November 2007 establishing the ecological criteria for the award of the Community eco-label to electrically driven, gas driven or gas absorption heat pumps (notified under document number C(2007) 5492) (Text with EEA relevance) (2007/742/EC)

Article 1 U.K.

The product group ‘electrically driven, gas driven or gas absorption heat pumps’ shall comprise heat pumps, which can concentrate energy present in the air, ground or water into useful heat for the supply of space heating or the opposite process for space cooling. A ‘heat pump’ is the device or set of devices as delivered by the manufacturer or importer to the distributor, retailer or installer. This delivery may or may not include the delivery of circulating pumps at the sink or source side, however for calculation of coefficient of performance (COP) values the power consumption of circulating pumps shall always be taken into account, according to the methodology of EN14511:2004 (if the manufacturer cannot provide data, a default value is taken). For gas absorption heat pumps the methodology shall be according to EN12309-2:2000.

The product group shall cover only electrically driven, gas driven or gas absorption heat pumps with a maximum heating capacity of 100 kW.

The product group ‘electrically driven, gas driven or gas absorption heat pumps’ shall not cover the following:

(a)

heat pumps which can only provide hot water for sanitary use;

(b)

heat pumps which can only extract heat from a building and eject it to the air, ground or water thus resulting in space cooling[F1 ;]

(c)

[F2 heat pumps which provide heat to a water based central heating system.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Commission Decision of 13 June 2014 amending Decision 2007/742/EC on electrically driven, gas driven or gas absorption heat pumps (notified under document C(2014) 3838) (Text with EEA relevance) (2014/363/EU).

F2 Inserted by Commission Decision of 13 June 2014 amending Decision 2007/742/EC on electrically driven, gas driven or gas absorption heat pumps (notified under document C(2014) 3838) (Text with EEA relevance) (2014/363/EU).