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European Union Officially Published The Commission Regulation No 1194/2012

On December 14, 2012, European Union officially published the commission regulation (EU) No 1194/2012with regard to ecodesign requirements for directional lamp, LED lamp and related equipment, including when they are integrated into other products, under ErP Directive. According to the requirements of the ErP Directive, before a product covered by this Regulation is placed on the market and/or put into service, a CE marking shall be affixed. 

Each ecodesign requirement shall apply in accordance with the following stages: 

Stage 1: 1 September 2013 
Stage 2: 1 September 2014 
Stage 3: 1 September 2016

The Regulation provides energy efficiency requirements, functionality requirements and product information requirements for these products.

1. Energy efficiency (EEI) requirements for directional lamps

Eu Officially Published Erp Implementing Measure for Directional Lamps, Led Lamps and Related Equipment

2. Energy efficiency requirements for lamp control gear

As from stage 2, the no-load power of lamp control gear intended for use between the mains and the switch for turning the lamp load on/off shall not exceed 1.0W. As from stage 3, the limit shall be 0.50 W. For lamp control gear with output power (P) over 250W, the no-load power limits shall be multiplied by P/250. 

As from stage 3, the standby power of lamp control gear shall not exceed 0.50 W.  

From stage 2, the efficiency of a halogen lamp control gear shall be at least 0.91 at 100% load.

3. Functionality requirements

The Regulation put forward functionality requirements for all kinds of directional lamps (eg., directional CFL, directional halogen, etc.), and for non-directional LED lamps and directional LED lamps. For example, it specifies the following functionality requirements for LED lamps (including non-directional and directional):

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In addition, the Regulation sets the functionality requirements for equipment designed for installation between the mains and the lamps (eg., dimmer, lamp control gear, luminaire, etc.) from stage 2:

• Equipment  designed  for installation  between the mains  and the lamps shall comply  with state-of- the-art  requirements for compatibility with lamps whose energy efficiency  index  is at most: 
— 0,24 for non-directional  lamps,
— 0,40 for directional lamps.

• when  a  dimming  control  device  is  switched  on  at  its  lowest  control  setting  for  which  the  operated  lamps  consume power,  the  operated  lamps  shall  emit  at  least  1 %  of  their  luminous  flux  at  full  load.

• When  a  luminaire  is  placed  on  the  market  and  intended  to  be  marketed  to  the  end-users,  and  lamps  that  the  end-user  can  replace  are  included  with  the  luminaire,  these  lamps  shall  be  of  one  of  the  two  highest  energy  classes, according  to  Commission  Delegated  Regulation  (EU)  No  874/2012,  with  which  the  luminaire  is  labelled  to  be compatible.

4. Product information requirements

The Regulation provides specific product information requirements for directional lamps, and the related equipment. The Regulation also provides additional product information requirements for LED lamps replacing fluorescent lamps without integrated ballast.

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