Qualifying requirements and procedures for televisions

Qualifying requirements
In order to be listed on the Danish Energy Saving Trust’s (hereinafter called the Trust) product overview of recommended televisions and thereby be entitled to use the Energy Saving Label (Go’ Energimærket), the product must conform to the following requirements, namely:

• Televisions must be classified as energy efficiency class A or better per EU Energy Label Directive
• After no more than 4 hours in on mode following the last user interaction and/or a channel change, the television shall be automatically switched from on modeto standby/off-mode(1), or another condition which does not exceed the applicable power consumption requirements for standby/off-mode(2). Televisions shall display an alert message before switching off/reverting to standby. This function must be set as default
• The product must comply with all other statutory requirements in Denmark
• A user manual in Danish or the Scandinavian languages must be supplied with the product
• The product must be available on the Danish market at the time that the product is included on the Trust’s product overview of televisions at savingtrust.dk
• There must be an agent for Denmark located in the EU, who is responsible for contact with the Trust
• The producer/importer (hereinafter called the market participant) must make it possible for Danish consumers to have their enquiries dealt with by a Danish speaking contact person
• The market participant must have filled in, signed and submitted a form covering the product that it wishes to be included on the Trust's overview of recommended televisions
• Sales figures for the product must be sent to the Danish Energy Label Secretariat (Sekretariat for Go’ Energimærket) every year

_{1) Equivalent to Commission Regulation (EC) No 642/2009 implementing Directive 2005/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to ecodesign of televisions
2) Equivalent to Regulation (EC) No 642/2009 covering the standby/off mode power consumption in force from 20 August 2011}

Inclusion procedure
Before the product is listed on the Trust’s product overview, the market participant must forward a signed declaration and a completed data form (available from the Danish Energy Label Secretariat) where the market participant has signed for the following information:

• All listed products meet the qualifying requirements
• Manufacturer name, product and model number of the products
• Date when product is available on the market
• Energy consumption for the product in standby and annual energy consumption in kWh etc.
• The market participant also gives permission that retailers may use the Trust's Energy Saving Label on all the supplier's products listed on the Trust's product overview of recommended televisions on savingtrust.dk

Energy Saving Label
Once a product is included on the Trust’s product overview, retailers and the market participant have the right to use the Energy Saving Label in connection with the marketing of the product on the understanding that they have entered into a User and Product Agreement with the Trust. The individual agreements can be required from the Danish Energy Label Secretariat.

Conditions for inclusion on the product overview
The market participant must inform the Trust about any product alterations, and if it is no longer sold, or is being phased out of the Danish market. A product may only be recommended on the Trust’s product overview as long as it remains unaltered. If a product is altered or fails a random test, the product may not display the Energy Saving Label, and the product will no longer be recommended. The product overview will state that the product has failed. The notice of failure can be withdrawn if the market participant submits documentation to show that the product now conforms to the requirements. Only the Trust can decide whether the product should be recommended again.

The Trust reserves the right to amend the qualifying requirements for inclusion on the product overview. In the event of changes to the qualifying requirements and procedures a minimum of 2 months notice will be given. Thereafter, the Energy Saving Label will be removed from the product overview, subject to the fact that no new documentation is delivered demonstrating that the products conform to the new requirements.

Additional documentation
The Trust may at any time, and without stating a reason, request the market participant to forward additional documentation showing that the product meets the qualifying requirements. The product will only be recommended on the product overview once all the additional documentation has been processed and approved by the Trust. The market participant agrees to allow the Trust to pass on information to the test laboratory used by the Trust.

Random testing
The Trust reserves the right to undertake random testing of products listed on the overview of televisions. The Trust selects products for testing from the warehouses or showrooms of producers, distributors or retailers. The market participant will make products to be tested available to the Trust free of charge, irrespective of the location from which they are delivered. If tests show that a product does not comply with the requirements listed for inclusion on the product overview, the market participant may be required to pay the costs incurred by the Trust in performing the test. These costs may not exceed DKK 50,000 excluding Danish VAT per year.

The Trust must be advised within one week in situations where a product fails the Trust’s tests and the market participant does not accept the results. In this connection, the market participant may submit new argumentation and/or documentation in order to refute the test conclusions. If the Trust does not approve any new documentation, the market participant can initiate a follow-up test of 3 products. Alternatively, the Trust’s conclusion will stand and the product forfeits the right to use the Energy Saving Label.

If the market participant decides to initiate a follow-up test of 3 products, the Trust has the right to select the 3 products, and the testing will be carried out at one of the Trust’s approved laboratories. The results of the follow-up test of 3 products will be made available by the Trust within 5 weeks, unless otherwise agreed. The cost of testing the 3 products will be met by the market participant, except where the test reverses the Trust’s original result. In this situation, the Trust will cover the costs of testing the 3 products, and the product(s) will again be recommended on the product overview. The Trust has the right to distribute the test results to the relevant authorities and retailers of the product tested, as well as publish the test results via the relevant media.

Submission of material
The material required, and any questions should be addressed to:

The Danish Energy Label Secretariat
For and on behalf of Go’ Energi
Bredbjergvej 44
DK-5230 Odense M
Tel.: +45 33 95 58 37
Fax: +45 33 95 58 23
E-mail: goenergimaerket@team.goenergi.dk