EU bans toxic lighting at home
EU bans toxic lighting at home
Europe is the first region in the world taking ECODESIGN into the lighting development progress to ban common mercury-containing lamps in the EU market.
The revised lighting regulations under the EU ECODESIGN Directive goes into force on 1st September, banning retrofit compact fluorescent lamps (CFL.i) and T12 “fat” linear fluorescent lamps across the 27 EU member states. Most linear T8 fluorescent lamps will be banned 1st September 2023.
The revised energy label for lighting also comes into effect on 1st September. The A rating of new energy label level means that the light source are produced in 210lm/W (luminous efficacy). So far, there is no lamps on the EU market can reach the level. The best performance of LED lighting from Benson Energy Saving Technology can reach level C. All of our LED products are comply with CE, RoHs certification, and NEW ErP directives.
| Energy Efficiency Class | Total Mains Efficacy hTM(lm/W) |
| A (most efficient) | 210 ≦ ηTM |
| B | 185 ≦ ηTM < 210 |
| C | 160 ≦ ηTM < 185 |
| D | 135 ≦ ηTM < 160 |
| E | 110 ≦ ηTM < 135 |
| F | 85 ≦ ηTM < 110 |
| G (least efficient) | ηTM ≦ 85 |
Benson Energy Saving Technology (BEST) has always led the way in certifications. Now we can guarantee all of our LED lighting products that conform to the new ErP directive. Most products in our current range are already compliant and will require no technical changes. You can just replace with new energy efficiency label of the packaging to conform to the new requirements of the EU market.
We have all our retrofit LED lighting in T8, T5, 2G11, 2G7, 2G10, G23, G24, GX24 type. We are the manufacturer and also the designer of LED products. Our LED products has been approved in many countries such as Japan, USA, European Countries, Singapore, Thailand and Taiwan. Please feel free to contact with us for more product information.
