The EU’s Ecodesign Directive: Do Expanded Anti-Circumvention Regulations Portend a New Frontier in Defeat Device Enforcement?
By EsqSocial Corporation 16/04/21
Key Takeaways What Happened: Earlier this year, the European Commission adopted a series of amendments that expanded the scope of anti-circumvention provisions to ecodesign regulations for a number of product categories. Both the European Union (EU) Ecodesign Directive and the U.S. Appliance and Equipment Standards Program prohibit using defeat devices to circumvent prescribed test procedures to misrepresent a product’s actual energy or water performance....
By: Beveridge & Diamond PC