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Energy efficiency labelling (Regulation)
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The EU label makes it easier for consumers to reduce their energy consumption in accordance with their own wishes and at the lowest possible cost. The abolition of efficiency classes A+ to A+++ improves the informational content of EU labels as consumers perceive the difference between, for example, class C and B differently to that between A+ and A++. However, the requirement that, to begin with, rescaling must be carried out such that no product is permitted to achieve efficiency classes A and B, reduces the informational content of the EU label. The obligation to refer to the efficiency class in all advertising, places a restriction on entrepreneurial freedom without sufficient justification.