Final Report Lot 9: Public street lighting - Amper

2 MARKET AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
The aim of the economic and market analysis is to place the product group street lighting within
the total of EU industry and trade policy (chapter 2.1), to provide market and cost inputs for the
EU-wide environmental impact of the product group (chapter 2.2), to provide insight in the
latest market trends so as to indicate the place of possible eco-design measures in the context of
the market-structures and ongoing trends in product design (chapter 2.3), and finally, to provide
a practical data set of prices and rates to be used in the Life Cycle Cost calculation (LCC)
(chapter 2.4).
2.1 Generic economic data
2.1.1 Sources and Limitations of the Eurostat production and trade data
To investigate the volume of sales and trade of a product group, it makes sense to consult
Eurostat’s product-specific statistics. For trade and production figures, these are the so-called
Europroms 1 -Prodcom 2 statistics. As an example, these data enable to check whether the
product complies with the eligibility criterion of Art. 15, par. 2, sub a, of the EuP Directive. In
the MEEUP Methodology Report the general advantages, flaws and limitations of these
official EU statistics are discussed extensively 3 .
Reliable market data are essential for the development of effective lighting policies. However,
any such assessment can only be as comprehensive and systematic as the available data itself.
For street lighting; this data is scattered and only partially available. Unfortunately, much of the
data that would be necessary for a thorough analysis has not been collected or reported in the
past, or is protected for reasons of manufacturing trade secrets. Although we attempt to focus on
the specific attributes of the street lighting market, much of our analysis could only be
performed at the level of the EU total lighting market, as data were only available in an
aggregated form.
In this report, our comparisons of imports, exports, and EU production and apparent
consumption, give the reader a sense of the relative scales within the lighting market. For
numerous reasons 4 , these data comparisons should only be considered as approximations.
1 Europroms is the name given to published Prodcom data. It differs from Prodcom in that it combines production
data from Prodcom with import and export data from the Foreign Trade database.
2 Prodcom originates from the French “PRODuction COMmunautaire”
3 MEEUP Methodology Report (VHK, 2005), pages 120, 121
4 Eurostat data shop Handbook (part 6.4.2. Europroms-Prodcom data, version 29/08/2003)
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