Paragraph 4 Drying performance index

(1)

The drying performance index (“I_D”) is determined as follows.

(2)

For all household dishwasher models, the I_D is calculated by comparing the drying performance of the eco programme to the drying performance of a reference dishwasher.

(3)

The I_Dmust be rounded to three decimal places and is calculated as follows—

I_D = exp (ln I_D) and

ln I_D = (1/n) × Σⁿ _i=1 ln(I_D,i).

(4)

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (3)—

(a)

I_D,iis the drying performance index of the eco programme of the household dishwasher under test for one test run (i);

(b)

n is the number of combined cleaning and drying test runs;

(c)

the I_D,i is rounded to three decimal places and calculated as follows—

ln I_D,i= ln (D_T,i/D_R,t), where—

(i)

D_T,i is the average drying performance score of the eco programme of the household dishwasher under test for one test run (i), rounded to three decimal places;

(ii)

D_R,tis the target drying score of the reference dishwasher, rounded to three decimal places.