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Introduction
2013 EU legislation changes impacting lighting
Below are some changes introduced in September 2013 that will have a major impact on all lighting technologies and
will make it easier for the consumer to compare products and allow retailers to remove non-compliant products from
the market place. The ErP legislation can be split into three sections as shown below.
EU Legislation Changes
DIM*1
Stage 5 (244/2009) Eco Design
requirements for
non-directional household lamps
DIM*2 (1194/2012) Eco Design
requirements for directional lamps,
LED and luminaires
Energy Label (874/2012)
Directive
What’s happening?
– Higher technical performance
requirements by Sept. 2013
– Higher technical performance
requirements by Sept. 2013
– Ban of inefficient reflectors
450lm and CFLi reflectors
– New energy label to be added to all
relevant lamp packaging
– EEI** label classes on top of A class
(A+, A++) are added
– Classes “F” and “G” are removed
– kWh/1000h added (energy usage)
– Lamps starting September 2013, fixtures
starting March 2014
Which Range?
– Non-directional CFLi, LED
and Halogen
– Directional Halogen, LED,
CFLi and non-directional
LED related equipment
e.g. LED luminaires
– All Lamp portfolios (Incandescent,
Fluo, HID, SPG, LED and LED
modules)
– Fixtures with lamps
* DIM stands for Domestic Implementing Measures.
** EEI stands for Energy Efficiency Index - a measure of lamps energy efficiency
Energy labels are available for
download on our website