# Council Decision of 13 November 2012 on the signing and conclusion of the Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the European Union on the coordination of energy-efficiency labelling programmes for office equipment (Text with EEA relevance) (2013/107/EU), Division: Desktop Categories for TEC Criteria:


For the purposes of determining TEC levels, desktops and integrated desktops must qualify under Categories A, B, C, or D as defined below:
(a) Category A: all desktop computers that do not meet the definition of Category B, Category C, or Category D below will be considered under Category A for ENERGY STAR qualification.
(b) Category B: to qualify under Category B, desktops must have:
equal to two physical cores; and
two gigabytes (GB) of system memory.
(c) Category C: To qualify under Category C, desktops must have:
greater than two physical cores.
In addition to the requirement above, models qualifying under Category C must be configured with at least one of the following two characteristics:
at least two gigabytes (GB) of System Memory, and/or
a discrete GPU
(d) Category D: to qualify under Category D, desktops must have:
at least four physical cores
In addition to the requirement above, models qualifying under Category D must be configured with at least one of the following two characteristics:
at least four gigabytes (GB) of System Memory; and/or
a discrete GPU with a frame buffer width greater than 128-bit.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2013/107/schedule/ANNEX C/division/I./division/3./division/B./division/(1)/division (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2013-107/schedule-ANNEX C/division-I./division-3./division-B./division-(1)/division
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.

