Review
Article 8
The Commission shall review this Regulation in the light of technological progress and present the results of this assessment, including, if appropriate, a draft revision proposal, to the Consultation Forum by 25 December 2025. This review shall in particular assess: (a) the energy efficiency index requirements for low noise refrigerating appliances and for wine storage appliances, including those with transparent doors; (b) the appropriateness to set energy efficiency index requirements for low noise combi appliances with frozen compartment(s); (c) the treatment of professional chest freezers; (d) the level of the tolerances; (e) the appropriateness of a mandatory sound signal for long door openings; (f) the compensation factors and the modelling parameters; (g) the appropriateness to set additional resource efficiency requirements for products in accordance with the principles of the circular economy, including whether more spare parts should be included; (h) the appropriateness of including other auxiliary devices or functions than the ambient controlled anti-condensation heater in the determination of the auxiliary energy; (i) the methodology for taking automatic and intelligent defrosting into account.