Screens, monitors, and equipment containing screens having a surface greater than 100 cm²
The following examples apply to products that are electrical and electronic equipment according to (§ 3 number 1 ElektroG).
Electrical and electronic equipment that can be both b2c, as well as b2b equipment
- Equipment with screens greater than 100 cm²:
- Screens and monitors allocated to category medical devices in the past (e.g. medical imaging and therapy devices)
- Screens allocated to category monitoring and control instruments in the past (e.g. industrial notebooks, industrial tablets)
- Oscilloscopes
- LCD photo frames and digital photo frames
- Monitors
- Screens
- Video/graphics displays (regardless of screen size)
Screens, that can be used in private households
- Equipment with a screen greater than 100 cm²
- E-book readers
- E-readers
- Laptops
- Notebooks
- Tablets and tablet PCs
- LCD-/LED-/OLED photo frames
- Televisions, (Ultra) HD TVs, OLED TVs, LED TVs
- VGA-/DVI-/HDMI-/TFT-/Touchscreen monitors/Displays
Screens for use in other than private households only
- Large video display units
- Touch panels (Smart panels, displays, monitors etc.) exclusively for industrial or medical use
- Touchscreen cash registers
Misinterpretation/Electrical and electronic equipment that does not fall into category 2
- GPS and navigation devices
- Mobile phones
- Phablets
- Pocket calculators
- Smartphones
- Telephones
...are always – regardless of screen size – allocated to category 6.
Equipment containing screens having a surface greater than 100 cm² and the main purpose of which is not the display of images and information on a screen:
- Cash machines
- Copiers
- Exhaust hoods
- Industrial machines
- Medical equipment
- Printers
- Refrigerators
...are allocated to categories 1, 4-6.
LED boards (advertisement boards with moving text), made up of individual light-emitting diodes, count as luminaires and are allocated to category 4 or 5.