EU will delay the ban of halogen bulbs for 2 years

Early on April 17, 2015, the EU eco-design Regulatory Committee votes to pass a resolution only slightly, the phasing out halogen bulbs by the 2016 deadline postponed to 2018 because of strong lobbying lighting industry, to the Commission and EU member states Description LED technology is not ready. It is believed that once they are fully eliminated halogen lamps, LED technology will be replaced.

Regulations No. 244/2009 Table 1, halogen lamps will be phased out from 1st Sep 2016, but the eco-design Regulatory Committee votes only slightly delayed by the elimination of two years, but this resolution to the European Commission is according to No. 2015/1428.

New regulations in environmental design requirements also have other amendments, including the expansion of "special purpose lamps" define the scope, to ensure that these are not treated as general lighting lamps Lighting sales and use. The new regulations detail definition of "special purpose lamps", pointing out that the main purpose of a variety of lighting applications is not lighting, for example, as a catalyst in chemical processes light; image capture and projection (such as a camera flash); heat (infrared light); and send a signal (such as traffic lights and airport lighting).

Another amendment provides that in future lighting design must be compatible with energy-efficient lighting solutions, because the need to minimize the old technology has been disabled "locking" effect, to ensure that the lamps can be placed on the market fully compatible with efficient light bulbs, these bulbs Energy efficiency reached at least A + grade Authority No. 874/2012 under the regulations.