Equipment with no external dimension more than 50 centimetres (Small equipment)
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
- Automatic dispensers
- Cameras
- Consumer equipment
- Equipment to generate electric currents
- Equipment to reproduce sound or images
- Fans
- Heating equipment
- Hot plates
- Household appliances
- Leisure and sports equipment
- Luminaires
- Medical equipment
- Microwaves
- Monitoring and control instruments
- Music equipment
- OBD diagnosis equipment, OBD testers
- Oscilloscopes
- Radios
- Small appliances with installed photovoltaic units
- Smoke detectors
- Scales
- Thermostats
- Tools
- Toys
- Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)
Small equipment, that can be used in private households
- Active hearing protection
- Ash vacuum cleaners
- Auxiliary products for bicycles
- Baby monitors
- Bell transformers
- Bicycle lighting
- Blood glucose meters
- Charging equipment, also with solar cells
- CD/DVD/MP3 players
- Cycling computers
- Circuit breakers
- Clothing with electrical functions (heating/massage/lighting function, etc)
- Consoles
- Detectors
- Digital cameras
- Dimmers
- Diving computers
- Door bells (also intercom systems, if applic. with video)
- Drones
- DSLR cameras
- Electric motors
- Electronic cigarettes
- Energy supplies
- Equipment to reproduce sound or images
- Flash units
- Fitness trackers
- Game cameras
- Gas boilers
- Generators
- Gimbals
- Glucose measuring equipment
- Ink/toner cartridges with chip or sensor
- Illuminated tiles
- Inverters
- Hair and body care personal hygiene equipment
- Heating blankets
- Heating foils
- Headphones
- Hi-Fi equipment
- House automation equipment
- Humidifiers
- Insulin equipment
- Inverters
- IP and surveillance cameras
- Knives
- KNX equipment
- Laser pointers
- Loudspeakers
- Luminescent globes
- Measuring equipment
- Model construction equipment
- Microphones
- Mirrors, illuminated
- Motion detectors
- Motion detectors
- Multimeters
- Night vision equipment
- Network cameras
- Pictures, illuminated
- Powerbanks with additional function
- Power supply units, univesal
- Printer cartridges with electric function (e.g. chip)
- Projectors
- Pumps
- Radios
- Razors
- Receivers for radio, TV
- Residual current operated circuit breaker
- Remote controls
- RGB controller
- Running sensors
- Selfi sticks
- Sewing eqipment
- Shoes with illumination
- Sighting telescopes with electrical function
- Small appliances for cars (e.g. operated via plug & play)
- Small pieces of furniture with integrated electric function
- Smart watches
- Sockets with additional function (also web and IP sockets)
- Solar folding units, not directly connected
- Solar lights
- Solar fans
- Temperature thermometers
- Teddies with a growling voice
- Timers
- Time switch watches
- Torches
- Toy robots
- Voltage testers
- Voltage converters
- Vacuum cleaners
- Vaults
- Ventilation equipment
- Video cameras
- Video lights
- VR goggles
- Watches
- Water heaters (instant, tankless)
- Wearables
- Weather stations
- Webcams
Small photovoltaic panels, that can be used in private households
- Photovoltaic panels on house roofs, caravans, boats, etc.
Small equipment for use in other than private households only
- Profile rail equipment for exclusively industrial or medical use
- Industrial cameras
- Inverters
- Measuring/Analysing equipment for laboratories and industry
- Product dispensing machines without cooling function
Small ’Passive’ equipment, in scope since 1st May 2019
+++++++ allocated to the respective type of equipment category 5 +++++++++
- Audio cables
- Antennae for radio/TV
- Antennae, not exclusively for communication or IT use
- Audio adapters
- HDMI adapters
- HDMI cables
- Cable reels
- Cold-device cables
- Small appliance cables
- Lightswitches, see
- Low-voltage couplers
- Travel plugs
- Safety fuses
- Sockets (Schuko etc.), see
- Extension cables (audio, electricity)
For more information see
Misinterpretation/Electrical and electronic equipment that does not fall into category 5
IITK equipment that has no external dimension more than 50 centimetres:
- Printers
- GPS and Navigation devices
- Mobile phones
- Phablets
- Smartphones
- Routers
...are allocated to category 6.
- Screens
- Gas discharge lamps
- Cooling appliances
- Compact fluorescent lamps
- LCD picture frames
- LED lamps
- Monitors
....are allocated to categories 1-3
- Solar heat units without electrical function
Passive ITK equipment that has no external dimension more than 50 centimetres
- Network cables
- Telephone cables
- USB cables
...are in scope from 1st May 2019 and are allocated to category 6