UK publishes draft of new requirements for eco-design regulations for lighting products to come into force at the end of 2023!

On January 20, 2023, the UK released proposed amendments to the Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) for Lighting Products, and is currently consulting on the proposed amendments to the Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) for Lighting Products through a collection of comments on the new requirements of the Eco-Design Regulation for Lighting Products, which will come into force at the end of 2023 (the collection date closes on April 4, 2023). Currently, a large number of energy-related products are regulated by the UK's Eco-Design Regulations and Energy Efficiency Standards Regulations, and the establishment of minimum performance standards through the Eco-Design Regulations removes the worst-performing products from the market and ensures that consumers are not exposed to poorly performing products with high running costs, while energy efficiency labeling improves the information available to consumers about the products they can purchase when buying a new product, enabling them to buy the the most energy efficient products.

The new eco-design regulations for lighting products currently only apply in the UK, and under the Irish Agreement, the EU eco-design regulations for lighting products will continue to apply in Northern Ireland, where Northern Ireland goods that meet EU standards can be sold on the UK market without having to meet the other regulatory requirements that apply to their sale under the UK Internal Market Act 2020.

The new eco-design regulation changes for lighting products are as follows (there are no changes to the eco-design requirements for stand-alone control gear or the energy efficiency labeling requirements for light sources).

Change 1: Proposed increase in minimum energy performance standards (MEPS)

Light sources or included products placed on the UK market will need to meet the following light efficiency requirements in addition to the use of allowancesallowance and exemptionsexemption:

- Tier 1: From the end of 2023 (when the official standard is published), the minimum luminous efficacy requirement will be 120 lm/w (Phase I).

- Tier 2: Starting September 1, 2027, the minimum luminous efficacy requirement will be 140 lm/w (Phase II).

Change 2: Changes to non-LED technical support (removal of Ponmax requirement)

Under the policy proposal, the UK lighting products market will move to best performing LEDs on a technology neutral basis by deleting the Ponmax calculation requirement in Schedule 3 of the 2021 Regulations, which will be replaced by 120 lm/w in the Minimum Energy Performance Standards (MEPS) from 2023, increasing to 140 lm/w from September 1, 2027 onwards. The 2021 regulation defines the required MEPS for lighting products using a "Ponmax calculation" ("Ponmax" is the maximum allowable power of a light source), a complex calculation that reduces the required luminous efficacy of certain sub-categories of lighting technology. This complex calculation reduces the required luminous efficacy requirements for certain lighting technology subcategories, meaning that they can continue to be marketed at much lower efficacies than potential LED alternatives, and the regulation determines that the market has now shifted sufficiently to LEDs that it makes sense to remove technical support for non-LEDs in order to support the full transition to more efficient LED technology. The chart below shows the list of non-LED technologies that will be removed:

Change 3: LED products with certain characteristics can use tolerance allowances

Recognizing that certain LED lighting technologies (e.g., directional LEDs) and light sources with specific characteristics (e.g., low color temperature) face inherent technical barriers to improving efficiency compared to other LEDs, the policy proposal includes a series of "allowances" that would allow eligible light sources to meet slightly lower minimum luminous efficacy requirements, which would allow more products to remain on the market. This will allow more products to remain on the market. The products for which allowances will be available are listed below (these products will be able to fall below the MEPS requirements within a certain range):

The UK has drafted new energy efficiency requirements for lighting products to be implemented by the end of 2023, and will differ from the EU ERP requirements by removing the maximum allowable power Ponmax requirement and replacing it with a requirement that luminous efficacy needs to reach 120lm/w by 2023 and 140lm/w by 2027, and for some lighting products where the technology fails to meet the requirements, a corresponding allowable difference has been set. For some lighting products that fail to meet the technology, the corresponding allowable difference has also been set, ranging from 5lm/w to 30lm/w, friends exporting to the United Kingdom can first improve their products according to these draft requirements, in order to cope with the formal energy-efficiency requirements that will be implemented in the future.

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