In order to be awarded the Community eco-label, for refrigerators, under Regulation (EC) No 1980/2000, an appliance must fall within the product group ‘refrigerators’ as defined in Article 2, and must comply with the ecological criteria set out in the Annex to this Decision.
The product group ‘refrigerators’ shall comprise all electric, mains-operated household refrigerators, frozen food storage cabinets, food freezers and their combinations. Appliances that may also use other energy sources, such as batteries, shall be excluded.
For administrative purposes, the code number assigned to the product group ‘refrigerators’ shall be ‘012’.
In Decision 2000/40/EC, Article 3 is replaced by the following:
This Decision shall apply until 30 April 2004’.
This Decision, with the exception of Article 4, shall apply from 1 May 2004 until 31 May 2007.
Producers of products falling within the product group ‘refrigerators’ which have been awarded the eco-label before 1 May 2004 may continue to use that label until 31 October 2005.
Producers of products falling within the product group ‘refrigerators’ who have applied for the award of the eco-label in respect of those products before 1 May 2004 may be awarded the eco-label under the conditions laid down in Decision 2000/40/EC. In such cases the label may be used until 31 October 2005.
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 6 April 2004.
For the Commission
Margot Wallström
Member of the Commission