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Document 32009R0245
Fluorescent and high intensity discharge lamps — ecodesign requirements
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Fluorescent and high intensity discharge lamps — ecodesign requirements
SUMMARY OF:
WHAT IS THE AIM OF THE REGULATION?
It lays down the ecodesign rules applicable to certain types of lamps to be used for general lighting with a view to reducing their environmental impact.
KEY POINTS
The regulation applies specifically to:
Ecodesign requirements
This regulation defines ecodesign requirements in 6 progressive stages (the last remaining stage will apply from 2018) each representing a gradual increase in the targets and/or extending the scope of the requirements to new sub-categories of products. These requirements concern:
Conformity
Manufacturers or their representatives are required to carry out a conformity assessment before placing an energy-using product on the market.
Verification procedures for market surveillance purposes
National authorities of EU countries must apply market surveillance procedures regarding:
FROM WHEN DOES THE REGULATION APPLY?
It has applied since 13 April 2009.
BACKGROUND
For more information, see:
* KEY TERMS
Fluorescent lamps without integrated ballast: discharge lamps of the low-pressure mercury type in which most of the light is emitted through the excitement of the molecules of one or more layers of phosphors by ultraviolet radiation from the discharge. They may be single- or double-capped and are without integrated ballast.
High intensity discharge lamps: lamps in which the light is produced, directly or indirectly, by an electric discharge through a gas, a metal vapour or a mixture of several gases and vapours, and in which the light-producing arc is stabilised by wall temperature and the arc has a bulb wall loading in excess of 3 watts per square centimetre.
Ballasts: devices which serve mainly to limit the current of the lamp(s) to the required value.
Luminaires: pieces of apparatus which distribute, filter or transform the light transmitted from one or more light sources and which include all the parts necessary for supporting, fixing and protecting the light sources.
MAIN DOCUMENT
Commission Regulation (EC) No 245/2009 of 18 March 2009 implementing Directive 2005/32/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to ecodesign requirements for fluorescent lamps without integrated ballast, for high intensity discharge lamps, and for ballasts and luminaires able to operate such lamps, and repealing Directive 2000/55/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 76, 24.3.2009, pp. 17-44)
The successive amendments and corrections to Regulation (EC) No 245/2009 have been incorporated into the basic text. This consolidated version is of documentary value only.
RELATED DOCUMENTS
Directive 2009/125/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 establishing a framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements for energy-related products (OJ L 285, 31.10.2009, pp. 10-35)
last update 13.12.2016