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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9864

19 March 2009
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/energy
Incandescent light bulbs are being phased out

Brussels, 18/03/2009 (Agence Europe) - With the adoption on Wednesday 18 March of two eco-design regulations aimed at gradually removing inefficient incandescent light bulbs from the market, the European Commission kicked off the plan to phase the latter out by 2012, replacing them with low energy consumption or fluo-compact halogenic bulbs, known as LBC. During two meetings of the Ecodesign Regulatory Committee in autumn 2008, member states experts had approved Commission proposals aimed at...

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