Production environment now available
18 December 2018
Please be informed that DG Energy has published the first PRODUCTION environment of the EPREL database on December 14. This environment is the one suppliers will need to use to register their product models from 1 January 2019. Contrary to previous models, this is now a secured environment. You may find it here: https://energy-label.ec.europa.eu
The European Commission officially acknowledged in a communication to stakeholders that while it will be possible to upload the necessary data on 1 January 2019, many suppliers will not have had sufficient time to prepare their systems, nor will the database be ready for system-to-system interaction. The Commission therefore informs that data will not be accessible to Market Surveillance Authorities and the public until April 2019. Please find here the official communication sent by the Commission.
The ADCO ENERLAB, composed of national authorities, replied to a joint industry letter recognising the delays in the implementation of the EPREL database, acknowledging the challenge for the industry and informing us that Market Surveillance Authorities participating in the ADCO agree to take a collaborative approach after 1 April 2019 until the first full week of May. This means that they will focus efforts not on penalising non-compliance but rather on supporting economic operators by answering questions and helping find solutions. Such collaborative approach will be reviewed after the first full week of May. Please find here the full text sent by the ADCO Chairperson.
The Commission anticipates that industry will continue uploading data during the period between January and April 2019 and they intend to use this period to finalise the system-to-system upload facility and iron out any remaining bugs.
Furthermore the latest version of the exchange model can be found here. Please note that since our last post, several updates have been applied to the following product groups:
- Residential ventilation units
- Domestic ovens
- Air conditioners
- Professional refrigerated storage cabinets
- Water heaters
- Space heaters
As regards the UI Functionalities, since our previous message there have been some changes to fields in product groups in UI and file upload. The affected products (within the scope of Orgalime Partnership) are:
- Local space heaters
- Residential ventilation units
- Solid fuel boilers
- Packages of solid fuel boilers
- Air conditioners
- Professional refrigerated storage cabinets
- Water heaters
- Packages of water heaters
- Space heaters
- Packages of space heaters
For further information on UI, please see the Guidelines on how to register organisations and create a contact list here: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/wikis/display/EPREL/EPREL+Guidelines
The System-to-system functionality is available for testing purposes only. You can connect your Access Point and send files to EPREL using eDelivery, they will be received, treated automatically and the product models from the XML file registered in the database. A report of transmission in XML will be sent back to your Access Point.
Please note that the support team of DG ENER will continue providing support during the holiday period (24 December – 4 January). You may contact them at [email protected] during working hours on December 26 - 28 and January 3-4. Please contact [email protected] if you have any comments.
