What changed, Regulation (EU) 2024/1781

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− Article 1
− 1. This Regulation establishes a framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements that products have to comply with to be placed on the market or put into service, with the aim of improving the environmental sustainability of products in order to make sustainable products the norm and to reduce t…
− 2. This Regulation applies to any physical goods that are placed on the market or put into service, including components and intermediate products. However, it does not apply to:
− | (a) | food as defined in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002; |
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− | (b) | feed as defined in Article 3(4) of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002; |
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− | (c) | medicinal products as defined in Article 1(2) of Directive 2001/83/EC; |
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− | (d) | veterinary medicinal products as defined in Article 4(1) of Regulation (EU) 2019/6; |
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− | (e) | living plants, animals and micro-organisms; |
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− | (f) | products of human origin; |
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− | (g) | products of plants and animals relating directly to their future reproduction; |
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− | (h) | vehicles as referred to in Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 167/2013, in Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 168/2013 and in Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) 2018/858, in respect of those product aspects for which requirements are set under sector-specific Union legislative acts applicable t…
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− Article 2
− | (1) | ‘product’ means any physical goods that are placed on the market or put into service; |
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− | (2) | ‘component’ means a product intended to be incorporated into another product; |
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− | (3) | ‘intermediate product’ means a product that requires further manufacturing or transformation such as mixing, coating or assembling to make it suitable for end-users; |
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− | (4) | ‘energy-related product’ means any product that has an impact on energy consumption during use; |
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+ ## CHAPTER I — GENERAL PROVISIONS
+ ### Article 1
+ **1.** This Regulation establishes a framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements that products have to comply with to be placed on the market or put into service, with the aim of improving the environmental sustainability of products in order to make sustainable products the norm and to redu…
+ **2.** This Regulation applies to any physical goods that are placed on the market or put into service, including components and intermediate products. However, it does not apply to:(a) food as defined in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002;(b) feed as defined in Article 3(4) of Regulation (EC)…
+ ### Article 2
+ (1) ‘product’ means any physical goods that are placed on the market or put into service;
+ (2) ‘component’ means a product intended to be incorporated into another product;
+ (3) ‘intermediate product’ means a product that requires further manufacturing or transformation such as mixing, coating or assembling to make it suitable for end-users;
+ (4) ‘energy-related product’ means any product that has an impact on energy consumption during use;
+ (5) ‘product group’ means a set of products that serve similar purposes and are similar in terms of use, or have similar functional properties, and are similar in terms of consumer perception;
+ (6) ‘ecodesign’ means the integration of environmental sustainability considerations into the characteristics of a product and the processes taking place throughout the product’s value chain;
+ (7) ‘ecodesign requirement’ means a performance requirement or an information requirement aimed at making a product, including processes taking place throughout the product’s value chain, more environmentally sustainable;
+ (8) ‘performance requirement’ means a quantitative or non-quantitative requirement for or in relation to a product to achieve a certain performance level in relation to a product parameter referred to in Annex I;
+ (9) ‘information requirement’ means an obligation for a product to be accompanied by information as specified in Article 7(2);
+ (10) ‘supply chain’ means all upstream activities and processes of the product’s value chain, up to the point where the product reaches the customer;
+ (11) ‘value chain’ means all activities and processes that are part of the life cycle of a product, as well as its possible remanufacturing;
+ (12) ‘life cycle’ means the consecutive and interlinked stages of a product’s life, consisting of raw material acquisition or generation from natural resources, pre-processing, manufacturing, storage, distribution, installation, use, maintenance, repair, upgrading, refurbishment and reuse, and end-o…
+ (13) ‘end-of-life’ means the life cycle stage that begins when a product is discarded and ends when the waste material of the product is returned to nature or enters another product’s life cycle;
+ (14) ‘environmental impact’ means any change to the environment, whether adverse or beneficial, wholly or partially resulting from a product during its life cycle;
+ (15) ‘class of performance’ means a range of performance levels in relation to one or more product parameters referred to in Annex I, which is established based on a common methodology for the product or product group, ordered in such a way as to allow for product differentiation;
+ (16) ‘remanufacturing’ means actions through which a new product is produced from objects that are waste, products or components and through which at least one change is made that substantially affects the safety, performance, purpose or type of the product;
+ (17) ‘upgrading’ means actions carried out to enhance the functionality, performance, capacity, safety or aesthetics of a product;
+ (18) ‘refurbishment’ means actions carried out to prepare, clean, test, service and, where necessary, repair a product or a discarded product in order to restore its performance or functionality within the intended use and range of performance originally conceived at the design stage at the time of …
+ (19) ‘maintenance’ means one or more actions carried out to keep a product in a condition where it is able to fulfil its intended purpose;
+ (20) ‘repair’ means one or more actions carried out to return a defective product or waste to a condition where it fulfils its intended purpose;
+ (21) ‘premature obsolescence’ means a product design feature or subsequent action or omission resulting in the product becoming non-functional or performing less well without such changes of functionality or performance being the result of normal wear and tear;
+ (22) ‘durability’ means the ability of a product to maintain over time its function and performance under specified conditions of use, maintenance and repair;
+ (23) ‘reliability’ means the probability that a product functions as required under given conditions for a given duration without an occurrence which results in a primary or secondary function of the product no longer being performed;
+ (24) ‘environmental footprint’ means a quantification of the environmental impacts resulting from a product throughout its life cycle, whether in relation to a single environmental impact category or an aggregated set of impact categories based on the Product Environmental Footprint method establish…
+ (25) ‘carbon footprint’ means the sum of greenhouse gas emissions and greenhouse gas removals in a product system, expressed as CO2 equivalents and based on a life cycle assessment using the single impact category of climate change;