| AIR CONDITIONING Heating Dry Dry (+ hydronic) Cooling Electricity, gaseous fuels and liquid fuels Local space heating products ENER lot 20 2015/1185 2015/1188 Air conditioners 12kW lot 10 206/2012 Central air heating products and cooling products lot 21 2016/2281 Central heating boilers lot 1 813/2013 Hydronic Central Local Solid fuels Space to as lots) where a study is undertaken to examine relevant market data and the technological aspects that influence the design, manufacture, operation and disposal of the product. The resulting, freely available, reports provide extensive and detailed information and although sometimes difficult to track down provide excellent sources of technical and market information (most are listed at www.eceee.org/ ecodesign/). There have been more than 25 product groups that directly impact building services engineering design, procurement and operation. (Some lots have, confusingly, been identically numbered but can be distinguished by the different prefixes that relate to the responsible EC Directorate-General ENER standing for the General Directorate for Energy and ENTR for the General Directorate for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship.) Following subsequent development and consultation (as more fully described in CIBSE Journal CPD, November 2012), the scope of the lots has been further consolidated, revised or upheld so as to evolve an appropriate set of European standards. Many of the lots have changed from their original concept, so it can be sometimes confusing to relate subsequent EU legislation to the original lots, as they may well have morphed into other areas. However, Figure 1 provides a useful interpretation of the resulting EU instruments that currently relate to active heating and cooling products. The success of the Ecodesign project may be measured, in part, in the contributory influence on EU energy consumption. As reported earlier this year by Zangheri,2 and based on the annual reports by EU member states over the five-year period to 2018, although both primary and final energy consumption have declined for almost all states since 2005, over the period 2011-2016 only 11 (out of 28) reduced final energy consumption by more than 1%. This was justified in part by colder climatic conditions during that periods winter months, economic growth, population rise and increased travel and transportation. The EC recently reported3 on data sourced from Eurostat4 showing that primary energy consumption was 5.3% above the 2020 targets in 2017 and final energy consumption was 3.4% above those targets. As a result, there is a stark realisation that although there have been clear benefits of the set of directives including ErP, if energy consumption continues to increase in the coming year, the EU will not reach its 2020 target for both primary and final energy consumption. In December 2018, the revised Energy Domestic water CPD PROGRAMME Solid fuel central heating boilers 2015 /1189 Water heating boilers lot 2 813/2013 Figure 1: The Ecodesign regulations relating directly to heating and cooling systems (Source: Guidelines accompanying Regulation (EU) 2016/2281, EC 2018) Efficiency Directive (2018/2002/EU) updated some specific provisions and introduced new elements but, principally, it established an EU energy target to improve energy efficiency by at least 32.5% by 2030 (compared with business as usual). The aim is for the EU to lead the world towards climate neutrality by 2050. The UK is set to leave the European Union on 31 October.5 However, whatever the status of Brexit, the government has declared that there will be no immediate impact on UK or EU consumers with regard to Ecodesign and Energy Labelling standards.6 There is wide-ranging support (in trade associations and professional institutions) that the UK should continue to cooperate with Europe on product standards, both to enable trade and to prevent the country becoming a dumping ground for low-quality goods. In the case of a no-deal Brexit, preparations are taking place across government to ensure that, in this case, regulatory continuity will be ensured,7 with suppliers required to ensure that relevant energy-using products placed in the UK (and the EU) market comply with minimum UK Ecodesign and Energy Labelling standards.8 The UK is a full member of the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) and adopts harmonised standards as national standards (EN is transformed and implemented as BS EN), and leaving the EU will not affect that process. British Standards Institutions (BSI) membership of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is unaffected by Brexit, and BSI is currently reviewing the CEN and European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC) statutes to identify necessary changes and to ensure that BSI can continue its membership of both organisations on a permanent basis.7 The UKs introduction of regulation will include a new UK Conformity Assessed (UKCA) regulatory mark that will be affixed to products to support the authorities and provide clarity to manufacturers placing products on the market in the UK postBrexit.7 The concept of harmonised standards will be transferred identically into the UK legal order to become designated standards. This was formally adopted in the UK parliament on 20 March 2019, and will enter into force on the effective date of Brexit in the case of no deal.7 An example of a significant product group that will continue to impact commercial applications in building services started life simply as Lot 21 Local room heating products. Through the Ecodesign research, consolidation and development process, this has evolved and matured to create the Ecodesign Regulation 2016/2281/EU9 for air heating products, cooling products, high temperature process chillers and fan coil units that relates to building services products that include:10 72 October 2019 www.cibsejournal.com CIBSE Oct19 pp71-74 CPD.indd 72 20/09/2019 16:23