LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

of July 17, 2014 No. 151

About requirements to ecological designing of energy-requiring products

For the purpose of transposing of the Directive of the European Parliament and Council 2009/125/EU of October 21, 2009 about establishment of the basis for determination of requirements to ecological designing of energy-requiring products published in the Official magazine of the European Union No. L 285 of October 31, 2009

The parliament adopts this ordinary law.

Chapter I. Basic provisions

Article 1. Subject of the law

(1) This law establishes the legislation of requirements to ecological designing of the energy-requiring products necessary for ensuring free movement of these products in the domestic market.

(2) the Law determines requirements to energy-requiring products which are introduced on the market and/or are put into operation, that promoting sustainable development, increase in energy efficiency and level of environment protection, and also increase in safety of power supply.

Article 2. Scope

(1) This law is applied to energy-requiring products.

(2) This law is not applied to passenger and to cargo vehicles.

(3) Provisions of this law and measures taken on its basis do not affect the legislation on the environment, including regarding waste management, by chemicals and fluorinated greenhouse gases.

Article 3. Basic concepts

In this law the following basic concepts are used:

improvement of ecological characteristics – process of improvement of ecological product characteristics with each subsequent generation though it is not obligatory for all ecological aspects of product at the same time;

ecological aspect – element or function of product which can interact with the environment during its lifecycle;

the requirement to ecological designing – any requirement to product or designing of product directed to improvement of its ecological characteristics, or any requirement to provision of information on ecological aspects of product. These requirements affirm the Government;

the general requirement to ecological designing – the requirement to ecological designing based on ecological profile of product in general without limiting task of parameters of separate ecological aspects;

the private requirement to ecological designing – the quantitative and measurable requirement to ecological designing relating to separate ecological aspect of product, such as energy consumption in the usage time calculated for this characteristic of unit of production;

lifecycle – the consecutive and interconnected stages of existence of product from use of raw materials before its final destruction;

components and assembly nodes – the details intended for inclusion in products which are not entered on the market and/or are not put into operation as separate details for end users or ecological characteristics of which cannot be estimated separately;

impact on the environment – any change of the environment fully or partially caused by product during its lifecycle;

the importer – physical person or legal entity which enters on the market product from other country;

ecological characteristics – results of management of the producer of ecological aspects of product as it is described in its technical documentation;

producer – physical person or legal entity which makes product or for which such product is designed or made and which implements product under own name or trademark;

the energy-requiring product, or product – any household appliance or other product influencing in usage time energy consumption entered on the market of the Republic of Moldova including the details intended for inclusion in the energy-requiring products which are subject of this law which are entered on the market and/or are put into operation as separate details for end users and which ecological characteristics can be estimated separately;

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