The Energy Information (Lamps) Regulations 1999

Interpretation U.K.

2.—(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires–

• “dealer" means a retailer or other person who offers for sale, displays or sells a regulated lamp to end-users;

• “the Directives" means Council Directive 92/75/EEC M1 on the indication by labelling and standard product information of the consumption of energy and other resources by household appliances and the Lamps Directive;

• “enforcement action" means the instituting of proceedings (whether criminal or otherwise) for failing to observe or comply with these Regulations;

• F1 ...

• “the harmonised standards" means the standards referred to in Article 1(4) of the Lamps Directive, which are technical specifications (European standards or harmonisation documents) adopted by the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation (“Cenelec"), on the basis of–

  (a)

  a mandate from the Commission in accordance with Council Directive 83/189/EEC of 28th March 1983 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations, as last amended by Commission Decision 96/139/EC M2 , and

  (b)

  the general guidelines for co-operation between the Commission, Cenelec and the European Committee for Standardisation signed on 13th November 1984 M3 ;

• “household electric lamps" means filament and integral compact fluorescent lamps supplied directly from the mains;

• “household fluorescent lamps" includes linear and non-integral compact fluorescent lamps;

• “information notice"–

  (a)

  in regulation 7(2) and paragraph 6 of Schedule 4 (power of enforcement authority to require technical documentation), means a notice containing information relating to the energy consumption and allied design and performance characteristics of a regulated lamp;

  (b)

  in any other provision of these Regulations, subject to paragraph (c), means a notice in the relevant language version containing information which meets the relevant requirements–

  (i)

  where the notice is in English, of Schedules 1 (the label) and 3 (energy efficiency classes);

  (ii)

  in any other case, of the Lamps Directive;

  (c)

  in relation to a supplier, means a notice containing information provided by him in accordance with paragraph (a) or (b);

• “label"–

  (a)

  in regulations 7(2) and 11 (misleading information) and paragraph 6 of Schedule 4 (power of enforcement authority to require technical documentation), means a label, mark, symbol or inscription relating to the energy consumption of a regulated lamp;

  (b)

  in any other provision of these Regulations, means a label in the relevant language version which meets the relevant requirements–

  (i)

  where it is in English, of Schedules 1 (the label) and 3 (energy efficiency classes);

  (ii)

  in any other case, of the Lamps Directive;

• “the Lamps Directive" means Commission Directive 98/11/EC M4 implementing Council Directive 92/75/EEC with regard to energy labelling of household lamps;

• [F2 “local weights and measures authority” means a local weights and measures authority within the meaning of section 69 of the Weights and Measures Act 1985;]

• “purchase" includes acquire on hire or on hire-purchase;

• “records" includes any books, documents, marks or symbols and any records in non-documentary form;

• “regulated lamp" means–

  (a)

  any household electric lamp, and

  (b)

  any household fluorescent lamp,

  except where marketed or commercialised as part of a product, the primary purpose of which is not illuminative but, subject to that, even when marketed for non-household use;

• “sale" includes hire and hire-purchase;

• “supplier" means the manufacturer of a regulated lamp or his authorised representative in the Community or the person who places the lamp on the Community market;

• “third person" means any person other than one against whom enforcement action may be, or is being, or has been taken under these Regulations.

(2) Other expressions used in these Regulations and in the Directives, or in one of them, have the same meaning in these Regulations as they have in the Directives or in that one, as the case may be.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 2 omitted (15.10.2009) by virtue of The Energy Information (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2559), regs. 1(b), 5(2)(a)

F2 Words in reg. 2 inserted (15.10.2009) by The Energy Information (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2559), regs. 1(b), 5(2)(b)

Marginal Citations

M1 OJ No. L 297, 13.10.92, p. 16.

M2 OJ No. L 109, 26.4.83, p. 8.

M3 OJ No. L 32, 10.2.96, p. 31.

M4 OJ No. L 71, 10.3.98, p. 1.