Description

This Regulation establishes ecodesign requirements for the placing on the market of glandless standalone circulators and glandless circulators integrated in products.

Where:

• circulator means an impeller pump, with or without pump housing, which has the rated hydraulic output power of between 1 W and 2 500 W and is designed for use in heating systems or in secondary circuits of cooling distribution systems;
• glandless circulator means a circulator with the rotor directly coupled to the impeller and the rotor immersed in the pumped medium;
• standalone circulator means a circulator, designed to operate independently from the product

Scope

This Regulation shall not apply to:

• a) drinking water circulators, except as regards the product information requirements of Annex I, point 2(1)(d);
• b) circulators integrated in products and placed on the market no later than 1 January 2020 as replacement for identical circulators integrated in products and placed on the market no later than 1 August 2015, except as regards the product information requirements of Annex I, point 2(1)(e).