Energy Star Programme

Website: www.eu-energystar.org/en/index.html

Energy Star is a label that helps consumers identify office equipment products that save them money and help protect the environment by saving energy. Manufacturers, assemblers, exporters, importers and retailers are invited to register with the European Commission allowing them to place the Energy Star label on products that meet or exceed energy-efficiency guidelines - i.e. computers, monitors, printers, fax machines, copiers, scanners and multifunction devices.

Manufacturers, assemblers, exporters, importers and retailers are invited to register with the European Commission allowing them to place the Energy Star label on products that meet or exceed energy-efficiency guidelines. The participation in the programme is voluntary.

As office equipment is traded world-wide, an Agreement was signed December 2000 between the Government of the United States of America and the European Community intended to co-ordinate energy-efficient labelling programmes for office equipment in two of the major global markets for office products. The Agreement is intended to stimulate international trade of office equipment, by facilitating the procedures for economic operators to participate in the Energy Star programme. The Agreement is managed by the US Environmental Protection Agency and the European Commission and it will remain in force for an initial period of five years.

Further regulation of November 2001 intends to firstly, introduce in the Community the Energy Star logo as a sign or marking as defined in the Agreement with the United States, secondly, to set the rules for its use and to prohibit its misuse and, thirdly, to establish the general rules and procedures for the implementation in the Community of the provisions of the Agreement.

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