In addition to the definitions set out in Article 2 of Directive 2010/30/EU, the following definitions shall apply for the purpose of this Regulation:

1. (1)

   ‘vacuum cleaner’ means an appliance that removes soil from the surface to be cleaned by an airflow created by underpressure developed within the unit;

2. (2)

   ‘hybrid vacuum cleaner’ means a vacuum cleaner that can be powered by both electric mains and batteries;

3. (3)

   ‘wet vacuum cleaner’ means a vacuum cleaner that removes dry and/or wet material (soil) from the surface by applying water-based detergent or steam to the surface to be cleaned, and removing it, and the soil by an airflow created by underpressure developed within the unit, including types commonly known as spray-extraction vacuum cleaners;

4. (4)

   ‘wet and dry vacuum cleaner’ means a vacuum cleaner designed to remove a volume of more than 2,5 litres of liquid, in combination with the functionality of a dry vacuum cleaner;

5. (5)

   ‘dry vacuum cleaner’ means a vacuum cleaner designed to remove soil that is principally dry (dust, fibre, threads), including types equipped with a battery operated active nozzle;

6. (6)

   ‘battery operated active nozzle’ means a cleaning head provided with an agitation device powered by batteries to assist dirt removal;

7. (7)

   ‘battery operated vacuum cleaner’ means a vacuum cleaner powered only by batteries;

8. (8)

   ‘robot vacuum cleaner’ means a battery operated vacuum cleaner that is capable of operating without human intervention within a defined perimeter, consisting of a mobile part and a docking station and /or other accessories to assist its operation;

9. (9)

   ‘industrial vacuum cleaner’ means a vacuum cleaner designed to be part of a production process, designed for removing hazardous material, designed for removing heavy dust from building, foundry, mining or food industry, part of an industrial machine or tool and/or a commercial vacuum cleaner with a head width exceeding 0,50 m;

10. (10)

    ‘commercial vacuum cleaner’ means a vacuum cleaner for professional housekeeping purposes and intended to be used by laymen, cleaning staff or contracting cleaners in office, shop, hospital and hotel environments, declared by the manufacturer as such in its Declaration of Conformity pertaining to Directive 2006/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council3;

11. (11)

    ‘central vacuum cleaner’ means a vacuum cleaner with a fixed (not movable) underpressure source location and the hose connections located at fixed positions in the building;

12. (12)

    ‘floor polisher’ means an electrical appliance that is designed to protect, smoothen and/or render shiny certain types of floors, usually operated in combination with a polishing means to be rubbed on the floor by the appliance and commonly also equipped with the auxiliary functionality of a vacuum cleaner;

13. (13)

    ‘outdoor vacuum’ means an appliance that is designed for use outdoors to collect debris such as grass clippings and leaves into a collector by means of an airflow created by underpressure developed within the unit and which may contain a shredding device and may also be able to perform as a blower;

14. (14)

    ‘full size battery operated vacuum cleaner’ means a battery operated vacuum cleaner which when fully charged, can clean 15 m² of floor area by applying 2 double strokes to each part of the floor without recharge;

15. (15)

    ‘water filter vacuum cleaner’ means a dry vacuum cleaner that uses more than 0,5 litre of water as the main filter medium, whereby the suction air is forced through the water entrapping the removed dry material as it passes through;

16. (16)

    ‘household vacuum cleaner’ means a vacuum cleaner intended for household or domestic use, declared by the manufacturer as such in its Declaration of Conformity pertaining to Directive 2006/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council4;

17. (17)

    ‘general purpose vacuum cleaner’ means a vacuum cleaner supplied with a fixed or at least one detachable nozzle designed for cleaning both carpets and hard floors or supplied with both at least one detachable nozzle designed specifically for cleaning carpets and at least one detachable nozzle for cleaning hard floors;

18. (18)

    ‘hard floor vacuum cleaner’ means a vacuum cleaner supplied with a fixed nozzle designed specifically for cleaning hard floors, or supplied solely with one or more detachable nozzles designed specifically for cleaning hard floors;

19. (19)

    ‘carpet vacuum cleaner’ means a vacuum cleaner supplied with a fixed nozzle designed specifically for cleaning carpets, or supplied solely with one or more detachable nozzles designed specifically for cleaning carpets;

20. (20)

    ‘equivalent vacuum cleaner’ means a model of vacuum cleaner placed on the market with the same input power, annual energy consumption, dust pick up on carpet and hard floor, dust re-emission and sound power level as another model of vacuum cleaner placed on the market under a different commercial code number by the same manufacturer.

Dealers shall ensure that from 1 September 2014:

1. (a)

   each model presented at the point of sale bears the label provided by suppliers in accordance with Article 3 displayed on the outside of the appliance or hung on it, in such a way as to be clearly visible;

2. (b)

   F1vacuum cleaners offered for sale, hire or hire-purchase where the end-user cannot be expected to see the product displayed, as specified in Article 7 of Directive 2010/30/EU, are marketed with the information provided by suppliers in accordance with Annex V to this Regulation. Where the offer is made through the internet and an electronic label and an electronic product fiche have been made available in accordance with Article 3(1)(f) and 3(1)(g) the provisions in Annex VIII shall apply instead;

3. (c)

   any advertisement for a specific model of vacuum cleaner contains a reference to the energy efficiency class, if the advertisement discloses energy-related or price information;

4. (d)

   any technical promotional material concerning a specific model of vacuum cleaner which describes its specific technical parameters includes a reference to the energy efficiency class of the model.

The information to be provided under Articles 3 and 4 shall be obtained by reliable, accurate and reproducible measurement and calculations methods, which take into account the recognised state-of-the-art measurement and calculation methods, as set out in Annex VI.

Member States shall apply the procedure set out in Annex VII when assessing the conformity of the declared energy efficiency class, cleaning performance classes, dust re-emission class, annual energy consumption and sound power level.

The Commission shall review this Regulation in light of technological progress no later than five years after its entry into force. The review shall in particular assess the verification tolerances set out in Annex VII, whether full size battery operated vacuum cleaners should be included in the scope and whether it is feasible to use measurement methods for annual energy consumption, dust pick-up and dust re-emission that are based on a partly loaded rather than an empty receptacle.

This Regulation shall apply to water filter vacuum cleaners from 1 September 2017.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.