# 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 F: Effective date


The date that manufacturers may begin to qualify products as ENERGY STAR under the present Version 1.1 specifications will be defined as the effective date of the agreement. Any previously executed agreement on the subject of ENERGY STAR-qualified imaging equipment will be terminated as of 30 June 2009.
Qualifying and Labelling Products under this Version 1.1: the Version 1.1 specifications will commence on 1 July 2009. All products, including models originally qualified under previous imaging equipment specifications, with a date of manufacture on or after 1 July 2009, must meet the new Version 1.1 requirements in order to qualify for ENERGY STAR (including additional manufacturing runs of models originally qualified under previous specifications). The date of manufacture is specific to each unit and is the date (e.g. month and year) on which a unit is considered to be completely assembled.
Elimination of Grandfathering: EPA and the European Commission will not allow grandfathering under the present Version 1.1 ENERGY STAR specifications. ENERGY STAR qualification under previous Versions is not automatically granted for the life of the product model. Therefore, any product sold, marketed, or identified by the manufacturing partner as ENERGY STAR must meet the current specifications in effect at the time of manufacture of the product.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2013/107/schedule/ANNEX C/division/III./division/F. (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2013-107/schedule-ANNEX C/division-III./division-F.
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