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Commission Directive 98/11/EC (repealed)Show full title
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implementing Council Directive 92/75/EEC with regard to energy labelling of household lamps (Text with EEA relevance) (repealed)
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Article 1
1.This Directive shall apply to household electric lamps supplied directly from the mains (filament and integral compact fluorescent lamps), and to household fluorescent lamps (including linear, and non-integral compact fluorescent lamps), even when marketed for non-household use.
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.
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;
(b)those with an input power of less than 4 watts;
(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.
3.For lamps referred to in paragraph 2, labels and fiches may be provided in accordance with this Directive, provided that harmonised measurement standards applicable to such lamps have been adopted and published in accordance with paragraph 4.
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 harmonised standards referred to in paragraph 4 shall be drawn up under a mandate from the Commission in accordance with Directive 83/189/EEC.
6.In this Directive, except where the context otherwise requires, expressions used shall have the same meaning as in Directive 92/75/EEC.
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