PricewaterhouseCoopers

Description of the project

The current challenge is to consider the most appropriate Eco-Design requirements for a given category of products. A preparatory study provides the first stage of the project assessing the existing environmental impacts of specific product groups, identifying and suggesting means to enhance, when acting at its design phase, the environmental performance of a category of EuPs and supplying the necessary outcomes.

The preparatory study should actually be the fundament basis of the following stages carried out by the Commission.

The objective of this contract is to conduct preparatory studies for Eco-design Requirements of EuPs focus on lot 16, i.e. laundry dryers.

Documents (to be downloaded)

Methodology

According to the terms of reference for this project, the consortium will follow the Methodology Study Eco-Design of Energy-using Products (MEEUP) developed for the European Commission: