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October 12, 2008

Proposed Lighting Directive

The EU Member States' Regulatory Committee on Eco-design and Energy Labelling of Energy-using Products (EELEP) has approved (26 September) proposals by the European Commission for a regulation setting performance standards to reduce electricity consumption in lighting products. According to the Commission, savings for fluorescent lamps, high-intensity discharge lamps and related ballasts and luminaires typically used in street, office and industrial applications could amount to 15% of the equipment's current usage - or around the annual electricity
consumption of Romania.

This is among the first concrete regulatory proposals coming out of the preparatory studies under the Energy-using Products (EuP) Ecodesign Directive and will now be scrutinised by the European Parliament with formal adoption scheduled for next January. Other regulation proposals are expected by spring 2009 on external power supplies, house lighting including a phase-out of incandescent light bulbs, electric motors and other energy using product groups.

Draft proposal:
http://ec.europa.eu/energy/demand/legislation/doc/regulatory_committee/2008_09_26_tertiary_sector_lighting_products_regulation_post_vote_en.pdf

Posted by iroronan at October 12, 2008 07:37 PM