The objective of the tender is to develop and to manage a database on energy efficiency and other relevant environmental aspects for 5+1 product groups made available on the EU market: lighting; air-conditioners; vacuum cleaners; tyres; computers and computer servers; plus one more product group to be selected by the European Commission during the first year of the action.

The database will be established mainly to support future reviews of ecodesign and energy labelling implementing measures. Collected and processed data will allow the Commission to assess progress of energy efficiency and other environmental aspects of the selected product groups. Consequently, the data will feed future studies preceding reviews of ecodesign and energy labelling implementing measures.

Furthermore, the data will also be used to support enforcement activities of national authorities. It will also be of interest for other interested parties such as consumers, procurers, retailers, manufacturers, NGO's, etc. To this end, the database will be linked to the 'Energy efficient products facility' that is being concurrently tendered by the EACI.