Commission Directive 98/11/EC of 27 January 1998 implementing Council Directive 92/75/EEC with regard to energy labelling of household lamps (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 1998-01-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: European standard, consumer information, energy consumption, labelling, lighting equipment

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COMMISSION  DIRECTIVE  98/11/EC

of  27  January  1998

implementing  Council  Directive  92/75/EEC  with  regard  to  energy  labelling  of  household
lamps

(Text  with  EEA  relevance)

THE  COMMISSION  OF  THE  EUROPEAN  COMMUNITIES,

Having  regard  to  the  Treaty  establishing  the  European
Community,

Having  regard  to  Council  Directive  92/75/EEC  of  22
September  1992  on  the  indication  by  labelling  and
standard  product  information  of  the  consumption  of
energy  and  other  resources  by  household  appliances (1),
and  in  particular  Articles  9  and  12  thereof,

Whereas  the  European  Committee  for  Standardisation
(CEN)  and  the  European  Committee  for  Electrotechnical
Standardisation  (Cenelec)  are  the  bodies  recognised  as
competent  to  adopt  harmonised  standards  in  accordance
with  the  general  guidelines  for  cooperation  between  the
Commission  and  those  two  bodies  signed  on  13
November  1984;  whereas,  within  the  meaning  of  this
Directive,  a  harmonised 
technical
specification 
standard  or  harmonisation
document)  adopted  by  Cenelec,  on  the  basis  of  a  remit
(mandate)  from  the  Commission  in  accordance  with
Council  Directive  83/189/EEC  of  28  March  1983  laying
down a procedure for the provision of information in the
field  of  technical  standards  and  regulations (2),  as  last
amended by Commission Decision 96/139/EC (3),  and  on
the  basis  of  those  general  guidelines;

(European 

standard 

is  a 

Whereas  under  Directive  92/75/EEC,  the  Commission  is
to  adopt  implementing  directives  in  respect  of  household
appliances  including  lighting  sources  (lamps);

Whereas  the  measures  set  out  in  this  Directive  are  in
accordance  with  the  opinion  of  the  committee  set  up
under  Article  10  of  Directive  92/75/EEC,

Whereas  electricity  use  by 
for  a
significant  part  of  total  Community  electricity  demand;
whereas  the  scope  for  reduced  energy  use  by  lamps  is
substantial;

lamps  accounts 

HAS  ADOPTED  THIS  DIRECTIVE:

Article  1

Whereas  the  Community,  confirming  its  interest  in  an
international standardisation system capable of producing
standards  that  are  actually  used  by  all  partners  in
international  trade  and  of  meeting  the  requirements  of
the  European  standards
Community  policy, 
organisations 
their  cooperation  with
international  standards  organisations;

invites 
to  continue 

1. This Directive shall apply to household electric lamps
supplied  directly  from  the  mains  (filament  and  integral
compact fluorescent lamps), and to household fluorescent
linear,  and  non-integral  compact
lamps 
fluorescent 
for
even  when  marketed 
non-household  use.

(including 

lamps), 

(1)  OJ  L  297,  13.10.1992,  p.  16.

(2)  OJ  L  109,  26.4.1983,  p.  8.
(3)  OJ  L  32,  10.2.1996,  p.  31.

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Where an appliance can be taken apart by end users, for
the  purposes  of  this  Directive  the  ‘lamp’  shall  be  the
part(s)  which  emit(s)  the  light.

(b) a  general  description  of  the  lamp,  sufficient  for  it  to

be  uniquely  identified;

2. The following lamps shall be excluded from the scope
of  this  Directive:

(a) those  with  a  luminous  flux  of  more  than  6 500

lumens;

(c)  information,  including  drawings  as  relevant,  on  the
main  design  features  of  the  model  and  in  particular
those  which 
energy
consumption;

appreciably 

affect 

its 

(d) reports  of  relevant  measurement  tests  carried  out  on
the

test  procedures  of 
the 
the  model  under 
harmonised  standards  referred  to  in  Article  1(4);

(b) those  with  an  input  power  of  less  than  4  watts;

(e)  operating  instructions,  if  any.

(c) reflector  lamps;

(d) those  marketed  or  commercialised  primarily  for  use

with  other  energy  sources,  such  as  batteries;

(e) those  not  marketed  or  commercialised  primarily  for
the  production  of  light  in  the  visible  range  (400  to
800  nm);

(f)  those  marketed  or  commercialised  as  part  of  a
product,  the  primary  purpose  of  which 
is  not
illuminative.  However,  where  the  lamp  is  offered  for
sale, hire or hire purchase or displayed separately, for
example  as  a  spare  part,  it  shall  be  included.

2. The  label  referred  to  in  Article  2(1)  of  Directive
92/75/EEC  shall  be  as  specified  in  Annex  I  to  this
Directive.  The  label  shall  be  placed  or  printed  on,  or
attached  to,  the  outside  of  the  individual  packaging  of
the  lamp.  Nothing  else  placed  or  printed  on,  or  attached
to,  the  individual  packaging  of  the  lamp  shall  obscure  it
or  reduce  its  visibility.  Annex  I  specifies  how  the  label
may  be  displayed  in  the  case  of  very  small  packaging.

3. The  fiche  referred  to  in  Article  2(1)  of  Directive
92/75/EEC  shall  be  as  specified  in  Annex  II  to  this
Directive.

3. For  lamps  referred  to  in  paragraph  2,  labels  and
fiches may be provided in accordance with this Directive,
standards
that  harmonised  measurement 
provided 
applicable  to  such 
lamps  have  been  adopted  and
published  in  accordance  with  paragraph  4.

4.
In  the  circumstances  referred  to  in  Article  5  of
Directive 92/75/EEC, and where the offer for sale, hire or
is  provided  by  means  of  a  printed
hire  purchase 
communication,  such  as  a  catalogue, 
that  printed
communication shall include all the information specified
in  Annex  III  to  this  Directive.

4. The  information  required  by  this  Directive  shall  be
produced  in  accordance  with  harmonised  standards,  the
reference  numbers  of  which  have  been  published  in  the
Official  Journal  of  the  European  Communities  and  for
which  Member  States  have  published  the  reference
numbers  of  the  national  standards  transposing  those
harmonised  standards.

5. The  energy  efficiency  class  of  a  lamp,  as  specified  on
the label and the fiche, shall be determined in accordance
with  Annex  IV.

Article  3

5. The harmonised  standards  referred to in  paragraph  4
shall  be  drawn  up  under  a  mandate 
the
Commission  in  accordance  with  Directive  83/189/EEC.

from 

Member States shall take all necessary measures to ensure
that all suppliers and dealers established in their territory
fulfil  their  obligations  under  this  Directive.

6.
In  this  Directive,  except  where  the  context  otherwise
requires, expressions used shall have the same meaning as
in  Directive  92/75/EEC.

Article  4

Article  2

1. Member  States  shall  adopt  and  publish  the  laws,
regulations  and  administrative  provisions  necessary  to
comply  with  this  Directive  by  15  June  1999.  They  shall
forthwith  inform  the  Commission  thereof.  They  shall
apply  those  provisions  from  1  July  1999.

1. The  technical  documentation  referred  to  in  Article
2(3)  of  Directive  92/75/EEC  shall  include:

(a)  the  name,  trade  mark  and  address  of  the  supplier;

However,  Member  States  shall  allow  until  31  December
2000:

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—  the  placing  on  the  market,  the  commercialisation

Article  5

and/or  the  display  of  products,  and

—  the  distribution  of  product  brochures  referred  to  in
Article  3(2)  of  Directive  92/75/EEC  and  printed
communications  referred  to  in  Article  2(4)  of  this
Directive,

which  do  not  conform  with  this  Directive.

When  Member  States  adopt  the  provisions  referred  to  in
the  first  subparagraph,  they  shall  contain  a  reference  to
this  Directive,  or  shall  be  accompanied  by  such  reference
at the time of their official publication. The procedure for
such  reference  shall  be  adopted  by  Member  States.

2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission
the  text  of  the  provisions  of  national  law  which  they
adopt  in  the  field  governed  by  this  Directive.

This  Directive  shall  enter  into  force  on  the  20th  day
following  its  publication  in  the  Official  Journal  of  the
European  Communities.

Article  6

This  Directive  is  addressed  to  the  Member  States.

Done  at  Brussels,  27  January  1998.

For  the  Commission

Christos  PAPOUTSIS

Member  of  the  Commission

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ANNEX  I

THE  LABEL

Label design

1.  The  label  shall  be  chosen  from  the  following  illustrations.  Where  the  label  is  not  printed  on  the
packaging  but  a  separate  label  is  placed  on,  or  attached  to  the  packaging,  the  colour  version  shall  be
used.  If  the  ‘black  on  white’  version  of  the  label  is  used,  the  printing  and  background  may  be  in  any
colours  that  preserve  the  legibility  of  the  label.

2.  The  following  notes  define  the  information  to  be  included:

Note
I. 

II. 

The  energy  efficiency  class  of  the  lamp,  determined  in  accordance  with  Annex  IV.  This  indicator
letter  shall  be  placed  at  the  same  level  as  the  relevant  arrow.
The luminous flux of the lamp in lumens, measured in accordance with the test procedures of the
harmonised  standards  referred  to  in  Article  1(4).

III.  The  input  power  (wattage)  of  the  lamp,  measured  in  accordance  with  the  test  procedures  of  the

harmonised  standards  referred  to  in  Article  1(4).

IV.  The  average  rated  life  of  the  lamp  in  hours,  measured  in  accordance  with  the  test  procedures  of
the harmonised standards referred to in Article 1(4). Where no other information on the life of the
lamp  is  included  on  the  packaging,  this  may  be  omitted.

3.  Where the information specified in II, III and, where applicable, IV of point 2 is included elsewhere on
the packaging of the lamp, it may be omitted from the label, as may the box that contains it. The label
shall  then  be  chosen  from  the  following  illustrations:

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Printing

4.  The  following  defines  certain  aspects  of  the  label:

4 2.5

13 pt Helvetica Bold

25 pt Helvetica Bold

11 pt Helvetica Bold

The label shall be contained in a blank border of at least 5 mm, as shown. Where there is no side of the
packaging  that  is  large  enough  to  contain  the  label  and  this  blank  border,  or  where  this  would  cover
more than 50 % of the surface area of the largest side, the label and border may be reduced but by no
more  than  is  required  to  meet  both  these  conditions.  However  in  no  case  may  the  label  be  reduced  to
less than 40 % (by length) of its standard size. Where the packaging is too small to take such a reduced
label,  the  label  must  be  attached  to  the  lamp  or  the  packaging.  However,  where  a  full-size  label  is
displayed together with the lamp (for example attached to the shelf on which the lamp is displayed) then
the  label  may  be  omitted.

Colours  used

Colour  version:

CMYB  —  cyan,  magenta,  yellow,  black.

Ex.  07X0:  0 %  cyan,  70 %  magenta,  100 %  yellow,  0 %  black.

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Arrows

A:  X0X0
B:  70X0
C:  30X0
D:  00X0
E:  03X0
F:  07X0
G:  0XX0

Outline  colour  X070

All  text  is  in  black.  The  background  is  white.

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ANNEX  II

The  fiche

The  fiche  shall  contain  the  information  specified  for  the  label (1).

(1)  Where  product  brochures  are  not  supplied,  the  label  provided  with  the  product  can  also  be  considered  to  be  the

fiche.

ANNEX  III

MAIL  ORDER  AND  OTHER  DISTANCE  SELLING

Mail  order  catalogues  and  other  printed  communications  referred  to  in  Article  2(4)  shall  contain  either  a
copy  of  the  label,  or  the  following  information,  given  in  the  order  specified:

1.  Energy  efficiency  class 

(Annex  I,  Note  I)

Expressed as ‘Energy efficiency class . . . on a scale of A (more efficient) to G (less efficient)’. Where this
information  is  provided  in  a  table  this  may  be  expressed  by  other  means  provided  it  is  clear  that  the
scale  is  from  A  (more  efficient)  to  G  (less  efficient).

2.  Luminous  flux  of  the  lamp 

(Annex  I,  Note  II)

3.  Input  power 

(Annex  I,  Note  III)

4.  Average  rated  life  of  lamp 

(Annex  I,  Note  IV)

(Where  no  other  information  on  the  life  of  the  lamp  is  given  in  the  catalogue,  this  may  be  omitted).

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ANNEX  IV

The  energy  efficiency  class  of  a  lamp  shall  be  determined  as  follows:

Lamps  shall  be  classified  in  class  A  if:

—  Fluorescent  lamps  without  integral  ballast

(those  requiring  a  ballast  and/or  other  control  gear  to  connect  them  to  the  mains)

W  #  0,15 

˛WΦ +  0,0097  Φ

—  Other  lamps

˛WΦ +  0,0103  Φ
W  #  0,24 
where  Φ  is  the  lumen  output  of  the  lamp
where  W  is  the  power  input  into  the  lamp  in  watts.

If  a  lamp  is  not  classified  in  class  A,  a  reference  wattage  WR  shall  be  calculated  as  follows:

WR  = 0,88 

˛WΦ +  0,049  Φ,  when  Φ  .  34  lumens
when  Φ  #  34  lumens

0,2  Φ, 

where  Φ  is  the  lumen  output  of  the  lamp.

An  energy  efficiency  index  EI  is  then  set  as

EI =

W
WR

where  W  is  the  power  input  into  the  lamp  in  watts.

The  energy  efficiency  classes  are  then  set  in  accordance  with  the  following  table:

Energy  efficiency  class

B
C
D
E
F
G

Energy  efficiency  index  EI

EI  ,  60 %
60 %  #  EI  ,  80 %
80 %  #  EI  ,  95 %
95 %  #  EI  ,  110 %
110 %  #  EI  ,  130 %
EI  $  130 %