A new EU-wide public database enabling consumers to compare the energy efficiency class and other data about different household products has been launched by the European Commission this week. With detailed information on well over 1 million products, the European Product Registry for Energy Labelling (EPREL) breaks new ground in helping EU consumers become more energy efficient.

Building on the highly successful EU energy label, this innovative tool provides unprecedented market transparency free of charge at a time when consumers are looking to make savings on their energy consumption, and when the Commission is trying to boost energy efficiency across the EU.

Now that the EPREL database is public, consumers have a free online tool that can help them easily find the most energy efficient models of the appliance they wish to buy and obtain key product information in all official EU languages.

Established under the 2017 Energy Labelling Framework Regulation, the EPREL registry has been operational since 2019. Since then, more than 7000 suppliers have registered household products newly placed on the market which are required to have an EU energy label.

These range from light bulbs to fuel boilers, refrigerators and washing machines. Over the first 3 and a half years of operation, an estimated 1.3 million models have been registered in this database.

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