Council Directive 92/42/EEC of 21 May 1992 on efficiency requirements for new hot-water boilers fired with liquid or gaseous fuels
Modified by
  • Council Directive 93/68/EECof 22 July 1993amending Directives 87/404/EEC (simple pressure vessels), 88/378/EEC (safety of toys), 89/106/EEC (construction products), 89/336/EEC (electromagnetic compatibility), 89/392/EEC (machinery), 89/686/EEC (personal protective equipment), 90/384/EEC (non-automatic weighing instruments), 90/385/EEC (active implantable medicinal devices), 90/396/EEC (appliances burning gaseous fuels), 91/263/EEC (telecommunications terminal equipment), 92/42/EEC (new hot-water boilers fired with liquid or gaseous fuels) and 73/23/EEC (electrical equipment designed for use within certain voltage limits), 393L0068, August 30, 1993
  • Directive 2004/8/EC of the European Parliament and of the Councilof 11 February 2004on the promotion of cogeneration based on a useful heat demand in the internal energy market and amending Directive 92/42/EEC, 304L0008, February 21, 2004
  • Directive 2005/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Councilof 6 July 2005establishing a framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements for energy-using products and amending Council Directive 92/42/EEC and Directives 96/57/EC and 2000/55/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, 305L0032, July 22, 2005
  • Directive 2008/28/EC of the European Parliament and of the Councilof 11 March 2008amending Directive 2005/32/EC establishing a framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements for energy-using products, as well as Council Directive 92/42/EEC and Directives 96/57/EC and 2000/55/EC, as regards the implementing powers conferred on the Commission, 308L0028, March 20, 2008
Council Directive 92/42/EECof 21 May 1992on efficiency requirements for new hot-water boilers fired with liquid or gaseous fuels THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 100a thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the CommissionOJ No C 292, 22.11.1990, p. 8., In cooperation with the European ParliamentOJ No C 129, 20.5.1991, p. 97 and OJ No C 94, 13.4.1992., Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social CommitteeOJ No C 102, 18.4.1991, p. 46., Whereas Decision 91/565/EECOJ No L 307, 8.11.1991, p. 34. provides for the promotion of energy efficiency in the Community under the SAVE programme; Whereas it is important to promote measures aimed at the progressive establishement of the internal market in the period up to 31 December 1992; whereas the internal market encompasses an area without internal frontiers, in which the free circulation of goods, persons, services and capital is assured; Whereas the Council resolution of 15 January 1985 on the improvement of energy-saving programmes in the Member StatesOJ No C 20, 22.1.1985, p. 1. invites Member States to pursue and where necessary increase their efforts to promote the more rational use of energy by the further development of integrated energy-saving policies; Whereas the Council resolution of 16 September 1986 concerns new Community energy-policy objectives for 1995 and convergence of the policies of the Member StatesOJ No C 241, 25.9.1986, p. 1., and in particular the objective of improving the efficiency of final energy demand by at least 20 %; Whereas Article 130r of the Treaty provides that action by the Community relating to the environment shall have the objective of ensuring a prudent and rational utilization of natural resources; Whereas it is appropriate to take as a base a high level of protection in proposals for the approximation of the provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States and concerning health, safety, environmental protection and consumer protection; Whereas the Council resolution of 21 June 1989 declares "that the Community should take proper account of potential climatic change linked to the greenhouse effect"OJ No C 183, 20.7.1989, p. 4. and the Council's conclusions of 29 October 1990 state that CO2 emissions in the year 2000 should be stabilized throughout the Community at their 1990 level; Whereas the importance of the domestic and tertiary sector, which absorbs a major proportion of the final consumption of energy in the Community, is considerable; Whereas this sector will become even more important through trends towards more central heating and a general increase in thermal comfort; Whereas better boiler efficiency is in the consumer's interest; whereas energy saving will be reflected in fewer imports of hydrocarbons; whereas reduction in the Community's energy dependence will have a positive impact on its trade balance; Whereas Council Directive 78/170/EEC of 13 February 1978 on the performance of heat generators for space heating and the production of hot water in new or existing non-industrial buildings and on the insulation of heat and domestic hot-water distribution in new non-industrial builingsOJ No L 52, 23.2.1978, p. 32. Directive amended by Directive 82/885/EEC (OJ No L 378, 31.12.1982, p. 19)., has given rise to the establishment of substantially different efficiency levels between one Member State and another; Whereas the requirement of high efficiency for hot-water boilers will reduce the range of technical properties of equipment placed on the market, thus facilitating series production and making for economies of scale; whereas the absence of a measure laying down energy requirements at a sufficiently high level may result, with the completion of the internal market, in a significant drop in the efficiency levels of heating installations through the spread on the market of low-efficiency boilers; Whereas local climatic conditions and the energy and occupancy characteristics of buildings differ greatly within the Community; whereas Member States must take this diversity into account when determining the conditions for putting boilers into service in implementation of this Direcitve; whereas these circumstances justify the fact that Member States where back-boilers and boilers designed to be installed in the living space are widely installed at the date of the adoption of this Directive should continue to authorize, within specific limits, the placing on their markets and the putting into service of such boilers; whereas these arrangements should be subject to particular surveillance by the Commission; Whereas this Directive, which is aimed at eliminating technical barriers with regard to boiler efficiency, must follow the new approach established by the Council resolution of 7 May 1985OJ No C 136, 4.6.1985, p. 1. which specifically lays down that legislative harmonization is limited to the adoption, by means of directives based on Article 100 of the EEC Treaty, of the essential requirements with which products put on the market must conform and that "these essential requirements shall be worded precisely enough in order to create legally binding obligations which can be enforced and to enable the certification bodies to certify products as being in conformity, having regard to those requirements in the absence of standards"; Having regard to Directive 83/189/EECOJ No L 109, 26.4.1983, p. 8; Directive last amended by Decision 90/230/EEC (OJ No L 128, 18.5.1990, p. 15). laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations; Having regard to Decision 90/683/EECOJ No L 380, 31.12.1990, p. 13. concerning the modules for the various phases of the conformity assessment procedures which are intended to be used in the technical harmonization directives; Whereas boilers complying with the efficiency requirements should bear the CE mark and, where appropriate, signs in order to enable them to move freely and to be put into service in accordance with their intended purpose within the Community; Having regard to Directive 89/106/EECOJ No L 40, 11.2.1989, p. 12. on the approximation of laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States relating to construction products; Whereas efficiency requirements to encourage the rational use of energy as laid down in Council Directive 90/396/EEC of 29 June 1990 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to appliances burning gaseous fuelsOJ No L 196, 26.7.1990, p. 15. should be established for the gas boilers referred to in this Directive, HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:
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