Background
The former ErP directives EC 244/2009, EC 245/2009, EU 1194/2012 and Energy Label directive EU 874/2012 had been taken effect for nearly 10 years. Recently, the European Commission has reviewed these regulations and analyzed the technical, environmental and economic aspects of lighting products as well as real-life user behaviour and issued new ErP directives EU 2019/2020 and energy label directive EU 2019/2015.
Taking Effect Time Table
The new ErP directive EU 2019/2020 and the energy efficiency labelling directive EU 2019/2015 will be implemented from 25 Dec, 2019 and enforced from 1 Sep, 2021, replacing the old ErP directives EC 244/2009, EC 245/2009, EU 1194/2012 and Energy label directive EU 874/2012.
Main Differences between New and Old Directives
• Added separate control gears, household appliances and other products with lights in Scope.
Separate control gears is also in the directives scope, so need to check your current driver spec and make sure it conform.
• The calculation of energy efficiency is changed from EEI to Ponmax, which added the factor of Ra and improves the requirement of energy efficiency.
• Added flicker test: SVM, Pst LM.
The flicker limited need to comply to:PstLM < 1.0 and SVM < 0.4
• Added the power consumption requirements of network standby.
The standby power need to be within 0.5W, such as DALI, Bluetooth, Zigbee, KNX all kinds of smart lighting control and lighting sensors.
• Added minimum energy efficiency for separate control gear at full-load.
• Switching cycle, starting time and warm-up time test are deleted.
• 3600h durability test, which 3000 hours lighted on, the test time is reduced, but the requirement of luminous maintenance is improved.
Differences between EU 2019/2015 directive and EU 874/2012 directives:
• The calculation of energy efficiency level is changed from EEI to TM (lm/W), which is more intuitive.
• The classification of energy efficiency level is changed to: Class A ~ Class G.
• Higher energy efficiency requirements, Class A++ (EU 874/2012) is only equivalent to Class E (EU 2019/2015).
For technical discussion or more details about the EU 2019/2015 and EU 2019/2020
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