This Policy is under review by the European Commission and is expected to be revised in 2025.

'Household refrigerating appliance' means an insulated cabinet; with one or more compartments; intended for refrigerating or freezing foodstuffs; or for the storage of refrigerated or frozen foodstuffs for non-professional purposes; cooled by one or more energy-consuming processes including appliances sold as building kits to be assembled by the end-user.

This Policy is under review by the European Commission in the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation working plan 2025-2030 and is expected to be revized in 2028.

(i)have two, four, six or eight poles; (ii)have a rated voltage U N above 50 V and up to and including 1 000 V; (iii)have a rated power output P N from 0,12 kW up to and including 1 000 kW; (iv)are rated on the basis of continuous duty operation; and (v)are rated for direct on-line operation; (b)variable speed drives with 3 phases input that: (i)are rated for operating with one motor refered to in point (a), within the 0,12 kW-1 000 kW motor rated output range; (ii)have a rated voltage above 100 V and up to and including 1 000 V AC; (iii)have only one AC voltage output.

This policy is being reviewed by the European Commission and is expected to be revised in 2027.