This Standard is applicable to household electric tumble dryers of the automatic and non-automatic type, with or without a cold water supply and incorporating a heating device.
The object is to state and define the principal performance characteristics of household electric tumble dryers of interest to users and to describe standard methods for measuring these characteristics.
This standard is concerned neither with safety nor with performance requirements.
This standard also specifies, as far as necessary, the test methods which shall be applied in accordance with the Commission's Directive 95/13/EC of 23 May 1995 implementing Council Directive 92/75/EEC with regard to energy labelling of household electric tumble dryers and adds clauses defining permitted tolerances to values declared by the manufacturer and control procedures for checking these declared values.