Lighting products are subject to many EU rules: ecodesign, energy efficiency, energy labelling, safety requirements for low voltage, electromagnetic or radio emitting products and obligations to provide information to the public.
LightingEurope engages with EU and national regulators to share our members’ technical expertise. Our objective is to help shape rules that improve the quality, safety and performance of lighting products and that can be easily understood and applied by companies and enforced by authorities.
There are many diverse applications for lighting, both consumer- and business-to-business. Each application comes with different requirements and specifications: from your desk lamp and the lighting in our homes and offices to lighting for streets, tunnels, aquaria, lighting used in manufacturing equipment and medical devices, and lighting technologies used to disinfect water or purify the air.
LightingEurope helps our member companies, national association and the global market understand and apply EU rules. Our Guidelines address the main legislative requirements for lighting products, including how to register a light source in the EU Energy Labelling Database (EPREL).
LightingEurope has also hosted, together with the European Commission, a webinar with a live demonstration on how to upload products and go through the supplier verification process on the EPREL database according to the latest novelties introduced by the Regulation. The recording of the webinar can be found here, while the slides are available at this link. To access the EPREL Wiki you can follow this link.
Facts
- Over 50 lighting standards for LVD - illustrating the diversity of products and applications and commitment to health and safety: Low voltage (LVD) - European Commission
Source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:C:2018:326:TOC
- Lighting manufacturers provide consumers with info on a product’s lifetime since 2009
Source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:076:0003:0016:en:PDF