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About Group for Energy Efficient Appliances (GEEA)

The group

Our group of organisations felt there was an urgent need to harmonise our ongoing and/or planned voluntary informative activities in the field of home electronics and office equipment. Initiated by government agencies and institutions form Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the European Energy Network (EnR), a workshop was organised in March 1996, where we decided to formulate a Memorandum of Understanding as a basis for collaboration.

In this respect a uniform communication and cooperation between public and private energy agencies or organisations, relevant parties, such as manufacturers, importers and the European Commission are of prime importance.

Since May 2000, the Group for Efficient Appliances has been incorporated as a Foundation (GEA Foundation) under Dutch law. Please note - from June 2001, the name has been "Group for Energy Efficient Appliances (GEEA)". This incorporation was a necessary step in order for the group to formally function as a legal body when cooperating with other organisations and institutions.

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Our members

For any questions concerning GEEA please contact one of the contact persons

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Our partners

The GEEA works closely together with partners from Industry: EICTA - European Information, Communications and Consumer Electronics Technology Industry Association

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Our goal

is to effectively contribute to the establishment of a uniform European-wide scheme on voluntary informative activities. Step-by-step.
In several countries different voluntary informative activities have already been implemented or are planned for TVs and VCRs. For this reason we decided to start harmonising work in the field of TVs and VCRs. We based our working methods and philosophy on the Swiss E2000 scheme, which has been working very successfully since its implementation in 1994.
Our scheme

    • is dynamic i.e. the criteria are revised regularly in close cooperation with industry involved (e.g. EICTA).
    • promotes approximately 25% of all models available on the market.
    • is voluntary: participation does not commit industry to use the GEEA label or promote those models meeting the GEEA criteria.
    • has no financial consequences for industry partners.

Each GEEA Member implements informative campaigns according to the characteristics of its consumer market. To allow the consumer to make an informed choice we have launched a recognisable label as shown below. (Print-quality versions of the label are available from the Download-page)

This label indicates that the appliance has a high energy-efficiency profile only reached by approximately 25% of the most efficient models on the market (note: in case of Energy Saving Devices, this percentage can increase to 100%). It is not our intention to have compulsory use of the label; not for GEEA Members or Industry. It acts as an additional tool to help us reach our goal: efficient use of energy.

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Your benefit

- as a manufacturer or importer is our harmonisation. To increase the impact of voluntary informative measures on the development of energy-efficient appliances, the marketing of such appliances should be effected for the entire market.
The GEEA stands for widespread (in NL, D, DK, A, CH, S, F and FIN)

    • common definition schemes
    • common test methods
    • common criteria
    • voluntary cooperation without any obligation for industry

To motivate manufacturers and importers to participate, the registration procedure is kept as simple as possible.

- as a consumer our concern is for energy-efficient appliances which you can find in our database.

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Last update: 2002-10-03
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