M/543 series of horizontal standards on material efficiency soon to be finalised
Good news from the standardisation front: we are pleased to report on the positive formal votes on two standards: method to assess the durability (EN 45552) and method to assess the proportion of recycled content (EN 45557) of energy related products.
Counting these, seven out of the eight material efficiency standards developed by the joint CEN/CENELEC Technical Working Group 10 under the standardisation request M/543 will soon be published.
This series of standards is meant to support the introduction of ecodesign requirements on material efficiency aspects for energy-related products, as well as all the future development of product-specific methodologies and standards on material efficiency.
ECOS has been involved in the work on these standards from the very beginning, and provided leadership on EN 45554 related to repair, reuse and upgrade. During the formal vote stages, we issued positive opinions on all the standards but EN 45553, on the assessment of the ability to remanufacture energy-related products. This standard, however, will now be improved, and we look forward to the results of the second formal vote, and to the swift adoption of the whole series.
We hope that the availability of these methods will help increase the ambition of the ecodesign requirements on material efficiency for products regulated under the Ecodesign Directive, to achieve the EU objectives ahead.
