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Effect project – estimating the benefits of Nordic market surveillance cooperation on ecodesign and energy labelling

Panel: 8. Monitoring and evaluation: building confidence and enhancing practices

This is a peer-reviewed paper.

Authors:
Lovisa Blomqvist, Swedish Energy Agency, Sweden
Troels Fjordbak Larsen, Big2Great ApS, Denmark

Abstract

The ecodesign and energy labelling directives are predicted to reduce energy use in Europe with 5% by 2020, which is a large share of the 2020 goal of 20% decreased energy use. However, for this to be realised efficient market surveillance is needed to assure that all products put on the market comply with the requirements. This paper presents the Effect project which includes a calculation of the efficiency of the current market surveillance and thoughts on further development. The Effect project is part of the Nordic cooperation Nordsyn sponsored by the Nordic Council of Ministers for the period 2013-2015 with the aim to increase efficiency of market surveillance of ecodesign and energy labelling.

Efficient market surveillance with limited resources is a challenge as the ecodesign and energy labelling directives cover a diverse spread of products and today include 42 regulations. The aim of the Effect project was to assess the achieved benefits of market surveillance carried out 2011-2013 and to estimate potential energy loss due to non-compliant products on the Nordic market (Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark).

The results indicate:

-A prevented energy loss of 28 million € for a market surveillance cost of around 2.1 million € in the Nordic countries – i.e. a return on investment (ROI) of 13.

-An overall rate of 6.3% energy non-compliance at a typical level of 35 kWh/year for the dominant non-compliant appliances, with a wide spread from 1.6 to 700 kWh/year in non-compliance.

-168 GWh electricity savings can be achieved in the full lifespan from sales of one year if all Nordic countries share and act on all tests.

-The average total cost per appliance tested in lab was around 6,000 €, but this varies widely for products.

-Individual Nordic countries can save a lot on market surveillance expenses when results from other Nordic countries are shared and subsequently increase market surveillance efficiency.

Note that these results are based on a limited set of data and depend on assumptions made.

The paper presents a number of policy recommendations for improving market surveillance in EU through enhanced cooperation between Member States.

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