Welcome to the website of the preparatory study for industrial and professional (i.e. commercial) Laundry Appliances. General information follows after the News items - please scroll below.
What’s new?
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27 March 2026: The final report of the ESPR preparatory study on commercial and industrial Laundry appliances has been published in the Documents section. The European Commission decided not to proceed with preparing a Delegated Act and Impact Assessment study for this product category.
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15 September 2025: Presentation on Task 6 + 7 .
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4 September 2025: Full draft Task 1-7 report available.
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3 March 2025: Registration has opened for the second stakeholder meeting which is planned to take place in Brussels on 10 April 2025.
- 3 February 2025: The second stakeholder meeting is planned to take place in Brussels on 10 April 2025.
- 2 September 2024: The first stakeholder meeting shall be held in Brussels on 30 September 2024.
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13 August 2024: the 2nd stakeholder consultation has been extended by a further week and shall run until Friday the 30.8.2024.
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7 August 2024: the 2nd stakeholder consultation has been extended by two weeks and shall run until Friday the 23.8.2024.
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12 July 2024: To collect information for tasks 1 through 4 of the preparatory study, the 2nd consultation has been launched.
- 10 June 2024: The deadline for submitting contributions to the first online consultation has been extended until 21 June 2024 – it addresses MEErP Task 1 (scope).
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17 May 2024: A first online consultation has been launched – it addressed MEErP Task 1 (scope).
- 17 May 2024: The registration for the project’s online platform has opened.
- 1st March 2024: Start of the Ecodesign preparatory Study on commercial and industrial Laundry Appliances
General information:
In the scope of the study are commercial and industrial Laundry Appliances
According to the definitions of the European standards EN 50640:2018 and EN 50594:2018 (and EN 17116-4:2019, EN 17116-3:2019, and EN 17116-2:2019), the scope encompasses commercial and industrial Laundry Appliances. Household laundry appliances are not covered by the current study. Please note that Household Laundry Appliances will be covered in a parallel study .
This study on commercial and industrial Laundry Appliances provides the European Commission with a technical, environmental and economical analysis in accordance with relevant European Directives. The analysis is based on the Methodology for Ecodesign of Energy-related Products (MEErP) detailed on the methodology page.
The overall policy target of this study is to establish sustainability requirements for professional laundry appliances. Consequently, the study will be divided in three main tasks:
- Preparatory Ecodesign Study - Following the MEERp methodology
- To support the European Commission Services on the Impact Assessment (cancelled)
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To support the European Commission Services in preparing a draft proposal of ESPR Delegated Act(s) and/or Energy Labelling Delegated Act(s) for commercial and industrial laundry appliances (cancelled)
The ESPR Preparatory Study started in March 2024 and was completed in March 2026.