European Commission 15 March 2019, COMMISSION STAFF WORKING DOCUMENT IMPACT ASSESSMENT Accompanying the document Commission Regulation laying down ecodesign requirements for servers and data storage products pursuant to Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Commission Regulation (EU) N°617/2013

Contents 1.Introduction 1.1.The Ecodesign work on enterprise servers and data storage products 1.2.Structure of this impact assessment 2.Problem definition 2.1.What is the issue or problem that may require action? 2.2.What is the scale of the problem? 2.2.1.Data centre consumption share by servers and data storage products 2.2.2.Data centre locations 2.3.