Smartphones, slate tablets, cordless phones, and other mobile phones
Design and content of the energy label - and your obligations
The energy label shows the environmental key information for the product in a specified graphic format. The label must be attached to products for buyer information at the point of sale. It allows consumers to do a quick comparison of the energy and resource efficiency of products.
Your obligations
As a supplier, you must ensure that:
- Each smartphone slate tablet unit is supplied with a printed energy label.
- An electronic energy label is made available to the dealers.
- Any visual advertisement or technical sales/promotional material for each model contains the energy efficiency class and the range of energy efficiency classes available on the energy label shown by an arrow (so-called energy arrow). Read more about this requirement here.
- On request, provide the dealers with a new printed energy label within five working days.
Size and creation of the energy label
- The printed energy label must be at least 68 mm wide and 136 mm high unless the packaging is too small; then it can be printed scaled down, but not less than 70% of the above specification, i.e. at least 47,6 mm wide and 95.2 mm high.
- If the energy label is printed in a smaller (see above) or larger format, all items must remain proportional.
- It is permitted, but not mandatory, to print the energy label on the packaging.
- It is also important that the QR code remains readable by a standard QR reader, like readers used on smartphones.
- The energy label can be generated automatically when the product model is registered in EPREL.