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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-1188/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-1188/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2015/1188",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/1188 of 28 April 2015 implementing Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to ecodesign requirements for local space heaters (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-1188",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Subject matter and scope",
  "text": "This Regulation establishes ecodesign requirements for the placing on the market and putting into service of domestic local space heaters with a nominal heat output of 50 kW or less and commercial local space heaters with a nominal heat output of the product or of a single segment of 120 kW or less.\nThis Regulation shall not apply to:\n(a) local space heaters using a vapour compression cycle or sorption cycle for the generation of heat driven by electric compressors or fuel;\n(b) local space heaters specified for purposes other than indoor space heating to reach and maintain a certain thermal comfort of human beings by means of heat convection or heat radiation;\n(c) local space heaters that are specified for outdoor use only;\n(d) local space heaters of which the direct heat output is less than 6 % of the combined direct and indirect heat output at nominal heat output;\n(e) air heating products;\n(f) sauna stoves;\n(g) slave heaters.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2015/1188/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:46:34.619602+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}