About Labels
The EU developed two complementary ways of reducing the energy consumed by products: Labelling to raise awareness of consumers on the real energy use in order to influence their buying decisions (such as labelling schemes for household appliances), and energy efficiency requirements imposed to products from the early stage on the design phase.
Energy label, consumption certificate and/or power requirement documents of identification are instruments, which inform the purchaser about energy consumption that the purchaser can use for its purchase decisions regarding energy efficiency.However, with the increasing number of energy labels (for appliances, buildings, green electricity, IT equipment, and clean vehicles) there is a certain risk of confusion of purchasers and end consumers. For that, we will give good information about energy labels on this website.
Energy label criteria can be used for an environmentally and purposeful purchasing process. With integration of the criteria of energy-labels into purchasing documents, an environmentally friendly procurement can be accomplished.