Final Report Lot 9: Public street lighting - Amper

8.2 Impact analysis industry and consumers
This chapter includes a supplementary qualitative impact analysis on industry and consumers,
for the quantified impact (e.g. annual product sales volumes) please look at 8.1.2.
8.2.1 Potential application of the ecodesign requirements outside the defined product
category
All of these ecodesign requirements can also apply to other outdoor applications that are not
'public' 'street' lighting, especially on non public outdoor car parks and outdoor working places.
Many of those ecodesign requirements can even be applied in private outdoor lighting and
amenity outdoor lighting. Analysing those impacts is not part of this study, which deals only
with street lighting products which should therefore be identified as such through product
information provided by the manufacturers. The annual lamp sales estimated in this study for
street lighting is 18 million units and these sales should be compared to reported sales of 38
million units sodium vapour lamps (HPS, LPS) and 24 million units mercury vapour discharge
lamps (MH, HPM) in Europroms statistics (see chapter 2).
8.2.2 Warnings for avoiding negative impact on consumers outside the defined product
category
A total ban of standard HPM (HgHP-BF) lamps from the market could be absorbed by using
retrofit HPS lamps that have better efficacy or by using MH lamps that have better efficacy and
better colour rendering. These MH lamps can also replace HPM lamps that actually are still
used in indoor and outdoor workplaces, sports halls etc. Also a ban of the self ballasted HPM
lamps, the so called ‘mixed light’ lamps, used in indoor luminaires where no ballast can be
placed, could be absorbed by using compact fluorescent lamps with integrated ballast and
E27/E40 socket (available with lumen output up to 23000lm).
It is also possible that the HPM lamps are actually used for specific applications where an
amount of UV radiation is necessary. Albeit no such applications are found in literature, this
could have a negative impact on that consumers. Stakeholders should confirm this option.
8.2.3 Warnings and additional measures for avoiding potential negative impact on
industry and consumers from products in the defined product category
As most proposed measures are applications of existing technologies, a great negative impact
on industry cannot be expected because the production of HPM lamps will be replaced by the
other lamp types by the same manufacturer.
The enforcement of continuous dimmable ballasts with lamp power control for HID lamps in
street lighting is actually only possible with electronic ballasts. This measure might affect some
SMEs that produce magnetic control gear.
Some companies might experience/suffer severe competition if electronic control gear
technology takes over the old ferromagnetic control gear technology because other production
lines and technological competences are needed. The switch of ferromagnetic to electronic
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