Article 1U.K.

The product group ‘dishwashers’ (hereinafter referred to as ‘the product group’) shall mean:

Electric mains-operated household dishwashers sold to the general public. Appliances that may also use other energy sources, such as batteries, or have no internal heat source, are excluded.

Article 2U.K.

The environmental performance of the product group as defined in Article 1 shall be assessed by reference to the specific ecological criteria set out in the Annex.

[F1Article 3 U.K.

The ecological criteria for the product group dishwashers, as well as the related assessment and verification requirements, shall be valid until 28 February 2009 .]

Article 4U.K.

For administrative purposes the code number assigned to the product group shall be ‘002’.

Article 5U.K.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.