Article 1 Subject matter and scope
United Kingdom
1.
This Regulation establishes ecodesign requirements for the placing on the market or the putting into service of electrical mains-operated welding equipment.
2.
This Regulation shall apply to welding equipment using one or more of the following welding and allied processes:
(a)
manual metal arc welding;
(b)
shielded metal arc welding;
(c)
self-shielded flux-cored welding;
(d)
flux cored arc welding;
(e)
metal active gas and metal inert gas welding;
(f)
tungsten inert gas welding;
(g)
plasma arc cutting.
3.
This Regulation shall not apply to welding equipment using the following welding and allied processes:
(a)
submerged arc welding;
(b)
limited-duty arc welding;
(c)
resistance welding;
(d)
stud welding.