Commission Regulation (EU) No 617/2013Show full title

Article 2 U.K. Definitions

[F1 The definitions set out in the Ecodesign for Energy-Related Products Regulations 2010 apply; and for any term that is not defined in those Regulations, the definitions set out in Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 establishing a framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements for energy-related products, as it had effect immediately before IP completion day, apply. The following definitions also apply—]

(1)

‘Computer’ means a device which performs logical operations and processes data, is capable of using input devices and outputting information to a display, and normally includes a central processing unit (CPU) to perform operations. If no CPU is present, then the device must function as a client gateway to a computer server which acts as a computational processing unit;

(2)

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(3)

‘External power supply’ means a device which has the following characteristics:

(a)

is designed to convert alternating current (AC) power input from the mains power source input into lower voltage direct current (DC) or AC output;

(b)

is able to convert to only one DC or AC output voltage at a time;

(c)

is intended to be used with a separate device that constitutes the primary load;

(d)

is contained in a physical enclosure separate from the device that constitutes the primary load;

(e)

is connected to the device that constitutes the primary load via a removable or hard-wired male/female electrical connection, cable, cord or other wiring; and

(f)

has nameplate output power not exceeding 250 Watts;

(4)

[F3 ‘Internal power supply’ means a component designed to convert AC voltage from the mains to DC voltage(s) for the purpose of powering the computer and has the following characteristics:

(a)

is contained within the computer casing but is separate from the main computer board;

(b)

the power supply connects to the mains through a single cable with no intermediate circuitry between the power supply and the mains power; and

(c)

all power connections from the power supply to the computer components, with the exception of a DC connection to a display in an integrated desktop computer, are internal to the computer casing.

Internal DC-to-DC converters used to convert a single DC voltage from an external power supply into multiple voltages for use by a computer are not considered internal power supplies;]

(5)

‘Desktop computer’ means a computer where the main unit is intended to be located in a permanent location and is not designed for portability and which is designed for use with an external display and external peripherals such as a keyboard and mouse.

The following categories of desktop computers are defined for the purposes of this Regulation:

(a)

‘Category A’ desktop computer means a desktop computer that does not meet the definition of Category B, Category C or Category D desktop computer;

(b)

‘Category B’ desktop computer means a desktop computer with:

(i)

two physical cores within the CPU; and

(ii)

a minimum of two gigabytes (GB) of system memory;

(c)

‘Category C’ desktop computer means a desktop computer with:

(i)

three or more physical cores within the CPU; and

(ii)

a configuration of a minimum of one of the following two characteristics:

• a minimum of two gigabytes (GB) of system memory, and/or

• a discrete graphics card (dGfx);

(d)

‘Category D’ desktop computer means a desktop computer with:

(i)

a minimum four physical cores in the CPU; and

(ii)

a configuration of a minimum of one of the following two characteristics:

• a minimum of four gigabytes (GB) of system memory, and/or

• a discrete graphics card (dGfx) meeting the G3 (with FB Data Width > 128-bit), G4, G5, G6 or G7 classification;

(6)

‘Integrated desktop computer’ means a computer in which the computer and the display function as a single unit, which receives its AC power through a single cable. Integrated desktop computers come in one of two possible forms: (1) a product where the display and the computer are physically combined into a single unit; or (2) a product where the display is separated from the computer but it is connected to the main chassis by a direct current (DC) power cord. An integrated desktop computer is intended to be located in a permanent location and is not designed for portability. Integrated desktop computers are not primarily designed for the display and reception of audiovisual signals.

The following categories of integrated desktop computers are defined for the purposes of this Regulation:

(a)

‘Category A’ integrated desktop computer means an integrated desktop computer that does not meet the definition of Category B, Category C or Category D integrated desktop computer;

(b)

‘Category B’ integrated desktop computer means an integrated desktop computer with:

(i)

two physical cores in the CPU; and

(ii)

a minimum of two gigabytes (GB) of system memory;

(c)

‘Category C’ integrated desktop computer means an integrated desktop computer with:

(i)

three or more physical cores in the CPU; and

(ii)

a configuration of a minimum of one of the following two characteristics:

• a minimum of two gigabytes (GB) of system memory, and/or

• a discrete graphics card (dGfx);

(d)

‘Category D’ integrated desktop computer means an integrated desktop computer with:

(i)

a minimum of four physical cores in the CPU; and

(ii)

a configuration of a minimum of one of the following two characteristics:

• a minimum of four gigabytes (GB) of system memory, and/or

• a discrete graphics card (dGfx) meeting the G3 (with FB Data Width > 128-bit), G4, G5, G6 or G7 classification;

(7)

‘Notebook computer’ means a computer designed specifically for portability and to be operated for extended periods of time either with or without a direct connection to an AC power source. Notebook computers utilise an integrated display, with a viewable diagonal screen size of at least 22,86 cm (9 inches), and are capable of operation on an integrated battery or other portable power source.

Notebook computers also include the following subtypes:

(a)

‘Tablet computer’ means a product which is a type of notebook computer that includes both an attached touch-sensitive display and an attached physical keyboard;

(b)

‘Slate computer’ means a type of notebook computer that includes an integrated touch-sensitive display but does not have a permanently attached physical keyboard;

(c)

‘Mobile thin client’ means a type of notebook computer that relies on a connection to remote computing resources (e.g. computer server, remote workstation) to obtain primary functionality and has no rotational storage media integral to the product.

The following categories of notebook computers are defined for the purposes of this Regulation:

(a)

‘Category A’ notebook computer means a notebook computer that does not meet the definition of Category B or Category C notebook computer;

(b)

‘Category B’ notebook computer means a notebook computer with at least one discrete graphics card (dGfx);

(c)

‘Category C’ notebook computer means a notebook computer with at least the following characteristics:

(a)

a minimum two physical cores in the CPU;

(b)

a minimum two gigabytes (GB) of system memory; and

(c)

a discrete graphics card (dGfx) meeting the G3 (with FB Data Width > 128-bit), G4, G5, G6 or G7 classification;

Products that would otherwise meet the definition of notebook computer but have idle state power demand of less than 6 W are not considered to be notebook computers for the purposes of this Regulation;

(8)

‘Desktop thin client’ means a computer that relies on a connection to remote computing resources (e.g. computer server, remote workstation) to obtain primary functionality and has no rotational storage media integral to the product. The main unit of a desktop thin client must be intended for use in a permanent location (e.g. on a desk) and not for portability. Desktop thin clients can output information to either an external or, where included with the product, an internal display;

(9)

‘Workstation’ means a high-performance, single-user computer primarily used for graphics, Computer Aided Design, software development, financial and scientific applications among other compute intensive tasks, and which has the following characteristics:

(a)

has a mean time between failures (MTBF) of at least 15 000 hours;

(b)

has error-correcting code (ECC) and/or buffered memory;

(c)

meets three of the following five characteristics:

(1)

has supplemental power support for high-end graphics (i.e. peripheral component interconnect (PCI)-E 6-pin 12 V supplemental power feed);

(2)

its system is wired for greater than x4 PCI-E on the motherboard in addition to the graphics slot(s) and/or PCI-X support;

(3)

does not support uniform memory access (UMA) graphics;

(4)

includes five or more PCI, PCI-E or PCI-X slots;

(5)

is capable of multi-processor support for two or more CPU (must support physically separate CPU packages/sockets, i.e. not met with support for a single multi core CPU);

(10)

‘Mobile workstation’ means a high-performance, single-user computer primarily used for graphics, Computer Aided Design, software development, financial and scientific applications among other compute intensive tasks, excluding game play, and which is designed specifically for portability and to be operated for extended periods of time either with or without a direct connection to an AC power source. Mobile workstations utilise an integrated display and are capable of operation on an integrated battery or other portable power source. Most mobile workstations use an external power supply and most have an integrated keyboard and pointing device.

A mobile workstation has the following characteristics:

(a)

has a mean time between failures (MTBF) of at least 13 000 hours;

(b)

has at least one discrete graphics card (dGfx) meeting the G3 (with FB Data Width > 128-bit), G4, G5, G6 or G7 classification;

(c)

supports the inclusion of three or more internal storage devices;

(d)

supports at least 32 GB of system memory;

(11)

‘Small-scale server’ means a type of computer that typically uses desktop computer components in a desktop form factor but is designed primarily to be a storage host for other computers and to perform functions such as providing network infrastructure services and hosting data/media, and which has the following characteristics:

(a)

is designed in a pedestal, tower, or other form factor similar to those of desktop computers such that all data processing, storage, and network interfacing is contained within one box;

(b)

is designed to be operational 24 hours per day and 7 days per week;

(c)

is primarily designed to operate in a simultaneous multi-user environment serving several users through networked client units;

(d)

where placed on the market with an operating system, the operating system is designed for home server or low-end server applications;

(e)

is not placed on the market with a discrete graphics card (dGfx) meeting any classification other than G1;

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‘Game console’ means a mains-powered standalone device which is designed to provide video game playing as its primary function. A game console is typically designed to provide output to an external display as the main game-play display. Game consoles typically include a CPU, system memory and a graphics processing unit(s) (GPU), and may contain hard drives or other internal storage options, and optical drives. Game consoles typically utilise handheld controllers or other interactive controllers as their primary input device rather than an external keyboard or mouse. Game consoles do not typically include conventional personal computing operating systems but instead utilise console-specific operating systems. Handheld gaming devices, with an integrated display as the primary game-play display, and which primarily operate on an integrated battery or other portable power source rather than via a direct connection to an AC power source, are considered to be a type of game console;

(18)

‘Docking station’ means a discrete product designed to be connected to a computer in order to perform functions such as expanding connectivity or consolidating connections to peripheral devices. Docking stations may also facilitate charging of internal batteries in the connected computer;

(19)

‘Central Processing Unit (CPU)’ means a component in a computer that controls the interpretation and execution of instructions. CPUs may contain one or more physical processors known as ‘execution cores’. An execution core means a processor that is physically present. Additional ‘virtual’ or ‘logical’ processors derived from one or more than one execution core are not physical cores. More than one execution core may be contained in a processor package occupying a single CPU physical socket. The total number of execution cores in the CPU is the sum of the execution cores provided by the devices connected to all the CPU physical sockets;

(20)

‘Discrete Graphics Card’ (dGfx) means a discrete internal component containing one or more graphics processing units (GPUs) with a local memory controller interface and local graphics-specific memory and falling into one of the following categories:

(a)

G1 (FB_BW ≤ 16);

(b)

G2 (16 < FB_BW ≤ 32);

(c)

G3 (32 <FB_BW ≤ 64);

(d)

G4 (64 <FB_BW ≤ 96);

(e)

G5 (96 <FB_BW ≤ 128);

(f)

G6 (FB_BW > 128 (with FB Data Width < 192-bit));

(g)

G7 (FB_BW > 128 (with FB Data Width ≥ 192-bit));

‘Frame buffer bandwidth’ (FB _BW) means the amount of data that is processed per second by all GPUs on a dGfx, which is calculated using the following formula:

Where:

(a)

frame buffer bandwidth is expressed in GigaBytes/second (GB/s);

(b)

data rate is the effective memory data frequency in MHz;

(c)

data width is the memory frame buffer (FB) data width, expressed in bits (b);

(d)

‘8’ converts the calculation into Bytes;

(e)

[F4 dividing by 1 000 converts Mega into Giga;]

(21)

‘Internal storage’ means a component internal to the computer which provides non-volatile storage of data;

(22)

[F3 ‘Product type’ means desktop computer, integrated desktop computer, notebook computer, desktop thin client, workstation, mobile workstation, small-scale server, game console, docking station, internal power supply or external power supply;]

(23)

‘Display sleep mode’ means the power mode the display product enters after receiving a signal from a connected device or an internal stimulus (such as a timer or occupancy sensor). The display product may also enter this mode by virtue of a signal produced by user input. The product must wake on receiving a signal from a connected device, a network, a remote control, and/or an internal stimulus. While the product is in this mode, it is not producing a visible picture, with the possible exception of user-oriented or protective functions such as product information or status displays, or sensor-based functions.

For the purposes of the Annexes, additional definitions are laid down in Annex I.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Art. 2 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Ecodesign for Energy-Related Products and Energy Information (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/539), reg. 1(3), Sch. 2 para. 17(2) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1528, regs. 1(2), 4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2 Deleted by Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/424 of 15 March 2019 laying down ecodesign requirements for servers and data storage products pursuant to Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Commission Regulation (EU) No 617/2013 (Text with EEA relevance).

F3 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) 2019/424 of 15 March 2019 laying down ecodesign requirements for servers and data storage products pursuant to Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Commission Regulation (EU) No 617/2013 (Text with EEA relevance).

F4 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/2282 of 30 November 2016 amending Regulations (EC) No 1275/2008, (EC) No 107/2009, (EC) No 278/2009, (EC) No 640/2009, (EC) No 641/2009, (EC) No 642/2009, (EC) No 643/2009, (EU) No 1015/2010, (EU) No 1016/2010, (EU) No 327/2011, (EU) No 206/2012, (EU) No 547/2012, (EU) No 932/2012, (EU) No 617/2013, (EU) No 666/2013, (EU) No 813/2013, (EU) No 814/2013, (EU) No 66/2014, (EU) No 548/2014, (EU) No 1253/2014, (EU) 2015/1095, (EU) 2015/1185, (EU) 2015/1188, (EU) 2015/1189 and (EU) 2016/2281 with regard to the use of tolerances in verification procedures (Text with EEA relevance).