Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 665/2013 of 3 May 2013 supplementing Directive 2010/30/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to energy labelling of vacuum cleaners (Text with EEA relevance) (c. 665)

ANNEX VII Verification procedure for market surveillance purposes

For the purposes of assessing conformity with the requirements laid down in Articles 3 and 4, the authorities of the Member States shall apply the following verification procedure:

1.

The Member State authorities shall test one single unit per model.

2.

The vacuum cleaner model shall be considered to comply with the applicable requirements if the values and classes on the label and in the product fiche correspond to the values in the technical documentation and if testing of the relevant model parameters listed in Table 4 shows compliance for all of those parameters.

3.

If the result referred to in point 2 is not achieved, the Member State authorities shall randomly select three additional units of the same model for testing. As an alternative, the three additional units selected may be of one or more different models which have been listed as equivalent vacuum cleaner in the manufacturer's technical documentation.

4.

The vacuum cleaner model shall be considered to comply with the applicable requirements if testing of the relevant model parameters listed in Table 4 shows compliance for all of those parameters.

5.

If the results referred to in point 4 are not achieved, the model and all equivalent vacuum cleaner models shall be considered not to comply with this Regulation.

Member State authorities shall use the measurement and calculation methods set out in Annex VI.

The verification tolerances defined in this Annex relate only to the verification of the measured parameters by Member State authorities and shall not be used by the supplier as an allowed tolerance to establish the values in the technical documentation. The values and classes on the label or in the product fiche shall not be more favourable for the supplier than the values reported in the technical documentation.

Table 4

a the arithmetic average of the values determined in the case of three additional units tested as prescribed in point 3.
Parameter	Verification tolerances
Annual energy consumption	The determined valuea is not more than 10 % higher than the declared value.
Dust pick up on carpet	The determined valuea is not more than 0,03 lower than the declared value.
Dust pick up on hard floor	The determined valuea is not more than 0,03 lower than the declared value.
Dust re-emission	The determined valuea is not more than 15 % higher than the declared value.
Sound power level	The determined valuea is not greater than the declared value.