Brussels, 16/03/2009 (Agence Europe) - Member states' experts, meeting in the Eco-design Regulatory Committee on Wednesday 11 March, backed the new measures designed to reduce the electricity consumption of industrial engines. The regulation proposed by the European Commission would ban the marketing of engines with performance standards lower than the “IE2” standard by 2011, and would authorise only high performance “IE3” engines from 2015 for high powered engines and 2017 for other...