As foreseen in the provisions laid down in Annex II to Regulation (EU)2019/424, manufacturers can – on a voluntary basis – declare a product model as being part of a server product family. For these product models, the manufacturer shall report certain (actually, most of the) information, such as idle state power or the active state efficiency, for the low-end and high-end performance configurations of the server product family (as laid down in Annex II.3.1). In terms of market surveillance of product models declared as being part of a server product family, Annex IV.1 to Regulation (EU) 2019/424 foresees that the Member State authorities can verify:
• the low-end performance configuration, or
• the high-end performance configuration, or
• a randomly selected or ordered model configuration.
In the case of a randomly selected or ordered model configuration, the declared values to be verified shall be the values for the high-end performance configuration only. In terms of testing, Annex IV.2.c foresees that the Member State authorities, in case the manufacturer declared the server to be represented by a server product family, test the low-end performance configuration or the high-end performance configuration of the server product family.
In the specific case of a randomly selected or ordered model configuration, this implies that the Member State authorities will test the high-end performance configuration of the server product family and, consequently, verify compliance with the Ecodesign requirements only for this configuration.
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