Exclusions: this Regulation shall not apply to: a. voltage converters; b. uninterruptible power supplies; c. battery chargers; d. halogen lighting converters; e. external power supplies for medical devices; f. external power supplies placed on the market no later than 30 June 2015 as a service part or spare part for an identical external power supply which was placed on the market not later than one year after this Regulation has come into force; under the condition that the service part or spare part; or its packaging; clearly indicates the primary load products for which the spare part or service part is intended to be used with.

This Policy is under review by the European Commission and is expected to be revised in 2023.

The Regulation shall not apply to fans integrated in: products with a sole electric motor of 3 kW or less where the fan is fixed on the same shaft used for driving the main functionality; laundry and washer dryers 3 kW maximum electrical input power; kitchen hoods 280 W total maximum electrical input power attributable to the fans. This Regulation shall not apply to fans which are designed to operate under certain specified conditions; potentially explosive atmospheres; emergency use only; extreme operating temperatures; high supply voltage; etc. These types of fans can be found in commercial and industrial buildings.

This Regulation does not apply to: (a) refrigerating appliances with a direct sales function that are only powered by energy sources other than electricity; (b) the remote components, such as the condensing unit, compressors or water condensed unit, to which a remote cabinet needs to be connected in order to function; (c) food processing refrigerating appliances with a direct sales function; (d) refrigerating appliances with a direct sales function specifically tested and approved for the storage of medicines or scientific samples; (e) refrigerating appliances with a direct sales function that have no integrated system for producing cooling, and function by ducting chilled air that is produced by an external air chiller unit; this does not include remote cabinets nor does it include category 6 refrigerated vending machines, as defined in Table 5 of Annex III; (f) professional refrigerated storage cabinets, blast cabinets, condensing units and process chillers as defined in Regulation (EU) 2015/1095 of the European Parliament and Council; (g) wine storage appliances and minibars.

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.

1. a display; 2. one or more tuners or receivers and optional additional functions for data storage and or display such as digital versatile disc -DVD; hard disk drive -HDD; or videocassette recorder -VCR; either in a single unit combined with the display; or in one or more separate units; 'Television monitor' means a product designed to display on an integrated screen a video signal from a variety of sources; including television broadcast signals; which optionally controls and reproduces audio signals from an external source device; which is linked through standardised video signal paths including cinch -component; composite; SCART; HDMI; and future wireless standards; but excluding non-standardised video signal paths like DVI and SDI; but cannot receive and process broadcast signals.