Commission Regulation (EC) No 245/2009Show full title

Article 2 Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions set out in Directive 2005/32/EC shall apply. The following definitions shall also apply:

1.

‘general lighting’ means substantially uniform lighting of an area without provision for special local requirements;

2.

‘office lighting’ means a fixed lighting installation for office work intended to enable people to perform visual tasks efficiently and accurately;

3.

‘public street lighting’ means a fixed lighting installation intended to provide good visibility to users of outdoor public traffic areas during the hours of darkness to support traffic safety, traffic flow and public security;

4.

‘discharge lamp’ means a lamp in which the light is produced, directly or indirectly, by an electric discharge through a gas, a metal vapour or a mixture of several gases and vapours;

5.

‘ballast’ means a device which serves mainly to limit the current of the lamp(s) to the required value in case it is connected between the supply and one or more discharge lamps. A ballast may also include means for transforming the supply voltage, dimming the lamp, correcting the power factor and, either alone or in combination with a starting device, providing the necessary conditions for starting the lamp(s);

6.

‘luminaire’ means an apparatus which distributes, filters or transforms the light transmitted from one or more light sources and which includes all the parts necessary for supporting, fixing and protecting the light sources and, where necessary, circuit auxiliaries together with the means for connecting them to the supply, but not the light sources themselves;

7.

‘fluorescent lamps’ means discharge lamps of the low pressure mercury type in which most of the light is emitted by one or several layers of phosphors excited by the ultraviolet radiation from the discharge;

8.

‘fluorescent lamps without integrated ballast’ means single and double capped fluorescent lamps without integrated ballast;

9.

‘high intensity discharge lamps’ means electric discharge lamps in which the light producing arc is stabilised by wall temperature and the arc has a bulb wall loading in excess of 3 watts per square centimetre.

For the purposes of Annexes I and III to VII, the definitions set out in Annex II shall also apply.