The European Court has ruled that the energy label of vacuum cleaners is to be considered misleading and discriminatory towards certain classes of devices and effectively cancels the regulation on the certification of devices.
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The vacuum cleaners will no longer have to carry the energy labels, which will also be removed from the devices already manufactured, from all the shops and from all the sites: thus the decision of the European Court to cancel the regulation relating to measurements for energy labeling becomes final, effectively confirming Dyson's thesis.
It was in fact the English giant of bagless vacuum cleaners that in recent months raised a real dusting by filing a case with the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg (Dyson judgment - case T-544/13 RENV) and arguing that the procedure established for measuring vacuum cleaners for the purpose of compiling the energy label was misleading.
The European Commission had two months to appeal against this decision, in an attempt to preserve EU regulation, but it did not and now the ruling is legally binding. The decision of the European Court therefore becomes enforceable, therefore the labels will no longer have to be there and the existing ones will have to be promptly removed from physical and online stores.
What happened
Dyson, one of the few companies that market the bagless vacuum cleaner, had filed an appeal because it felt penalized by the 2014 regulation, which he was deceiving consumers regarding the energy efficiency of vacuum cleaners (in tests the cleaning effectiveness would not be measured during use, but only with the dust collection container empty). According to Dyson, in short, the measurements of energy efficiency and suction power provided by the European Commission made with an empty vacuum cleaner they were not valid because they did not reflect the real uses: after the first steps, a vacuum cleaner, in fact, is never empty and cyclonic patterns, like those of Dyson, maintain their efficiency even with a full tank, unlike what happens with traditional ones that suck less or, in some cases, increase power and consumption to offset the loss of efficiency.
Now, the European Court has ruled that lhe energy label of vacuum cleaners is to be considered misleading and discriminatory against certain classes of devices and effectively cancels the regulation on the certification of devices that until now had to be tested empty and without bags.
According to reports, the European Commission is currently examining the possibility of making short-term changes to the regulation of energy labels for vacuum cleaners. If so, then a new energy label could be released within a year. If no changes are made to the directive, it will take at least another two years before a new energy label for vacuum cleaners is introduced.
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