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Does Regulation (EU) 2023/826 apply to all treadmills (i.e. for home use and for studio/gym use), or only to the ones designed and marketed for home use?

Yes — the Regulation applies to both home-use treadmills and studio/gym treadmills.

Treadmills are listed in Annex II, point 4 ("Toys, leisure and sports equipment"), as "sports equipment”. The general scope is set in Article 1 — "electrical and electronic household and office equipment" — and qualified by Recital 8, which limits application to products "intended for use in the domestic environment".

"Domestic environment" is defined in Annex I, point 2 as "an environment where the use of broadcast radio and television receivers may be expected within a distance of 10 m of the equipment concerned". This is a functional test, designed to exclude equipment intended for industrial environments (factories, workshops, plants where EMC Class A is expected and operating conditions differ fundamentally. Fitness studios and gyms are not such industrial environments; they are typically equipped with broadcast receivers (TVs, audio) within line-of-sight of the treadmills and therefore meet the definition of "domestic environment”.

Studio/gym treadmills are therefore subject to the same off-mode, standby and networked-standby requirements as home-use units.

 

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