3 Amendments of Annie SCHREIJER-PIERIK related to 2015/0149(COD)
Amendment 28 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) Manufacturers respond to the energy label by creating ever more efficient products. This technological development leads to products populating mainly the highest classes of the energy label. Further product differentiation may be necessary to allow customers a proper comparison, leading to the need to rescale labels. ForBecause of the frequency of such rescaling a timescale of approximately ten years would be appropriate, taking into account the need to avoid over burdening manufacturerirements arising from the constantly changing market and state of technology, it is undesirable to carry out rescaling according to a fixed timetable. Taking into account the need to avoid over burdening manufacturers, any rescaling should only be triggered by an officially documented overpopulation of the two highest classes. This Regulation should therefore lay down detailed arrangements for rescaling in order to maximise legal certainty for suppliers and dealers. A newly rescaledBefore any rescaling, the Commission should carry out a thorough preparatory study and impact assessment. The top two classes of a new label should havnot be empty top classesand should initially cover a sufficiently low proportion of products firstly to encourage technological progress and enable ever more efficient products to be developed and recognised and secondly to prevent changes in consumer behaviour which are undesirable from the point of view of the environment and the market. When a label is rescaled, confusion to customers should be avoided by replacing all energy labels within a short timeframe.
Amendment 114 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 3
3. The Commission shall ensure that, when a label is introduced or rescaled, the requirements are laid down so that not more than 20% of products are expected to fall in energy classes A or B at the moment of the introduction of the label and so that the estimated time within which a majority of models falls into thosr rescaling of the classes shall be at least ten years laterbel.
Amendment 122 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 4
Article 7 – paragraph 4
4. Labels shall be rescaled periodicallywhen scientific and technical progress in a specific product group makes it appropriate. In order to ascertain the need for, and consequences of, rescaling, the Commission shall perform a thorough preparatory study and impact assessment, at the latest as soon as more than 50% of the products sold from a specific product group fall into energy classes A and B.