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The new EU Energy Label for luminaires, mandatory from March 1st, 2014, will only cover goods that are marketed firstly from that date on.
In Bologna and other cities of the Emilia-Romagna-region since May intelligent disposal containers collect used electrical and electronic waste.
The Portuguese authority for WEEE registration („anree“) has announced to punish companies,
For manufacturers and importers of LED (rigidly manufactured in light products) registration with EAR will get notably cheaper.
The „Stiftung EAR“ (EAR Foundation) is drawing a clear line:
Traders widely fulfill their duties of labelling EU‘s energy efficiency of electronic equipment like washing machines, refrigerators or televisions, EU analysts have revealed.
Since month and month the Committee of Environment of the EU, the EU commission and the member countries discussed
The long discussed modified WEEE-directive (2012/19/EU) has been published July 24th, 2012 and was due to validity from august 12th, 2012.
On June 5th 2012 the regional court of Aachen decided that – clearly aware of the view of the Hamburg judges ¬– LED must be registered within EAR. And therefore would have to be labeled with the obligatory crossed waste bin symbol (AZ: 41 O 8/12).
After a call from the Hamburg regional court dated April 13th, 2012, LED mustn’t be labeled with the obligatory crossed waste bin symbol. Reason: They wouldn’t underlie EAR.