Transcript Gerald Internal Coordination Meeting

Eco-Lighting
Project
EU Ecolabel and GPP for lamps
Kick off
meeting
16 January 2012
Brussels
Aura Light
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BLV
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GE Lighting
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NARVA
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OSRAM AG •
Philips Lighting • Havells Sylvania • Toshiba • VentureLighting
Welcome of participants &
adoption of agenda
Project team:
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Chiara Briatore – ELC
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Otmar Franz – Osram
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James Hooker - Havells-Sylvania
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Peter Hunt – Lighting Association, UK
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Renata Kaps – JRC, Seville
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Zoltan Pilter – GE
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Michel Quicheron – JRC, Ispra
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Jürgen Sturm – ELC
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Kees Van Meerten – Philips Lighting
Stakeholders:
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Stephen Bonner - Director, EMEA Government Relations, Texas Instruments
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Christianna Papazahariou – LG Electronics
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Dirk Van Hessche – PlasticsEurope
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Welcome of participants &
adoption of agenda
Time
Agenda
item
Topic
09:30 – 09:45
1.
Welcome of participants, tour de table & adoption of agenda
09:45 – 10:00
2.
Presentation of Consortium; new members
10:00 – 11:00
3.
Project Scope
Alignment of ECOLABEL and GPP related activities
11:00 – 11:15
Coffee break
11:15 – 12:15
4.
Task Definitions
12:15 – 12:45
5.
Task Allocation
12:45 – 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 – 15:00
6.
Project Outline; Deadlines; Milestones; Deliverables
15:00 – 16:00
7.
Preparation for the consultation; preparation of the questionnaire for gathering information on economic and market data as well as user behavior
16:00 – 17:00
8.
Launch of Website
Communication activities
17:00 – 17:15
9.
Any other business
17:15 – 17:30
10.
Date of the next meeting (first AHWG meeting) and close of the workshop
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Presentation of
Consortium
Project leader
Chiara Briatore - ELC
Chiara Briatore is the Policy Advisor for the European Lamp Companies Federation (ELC) since 2010. Chiara studied
Law at the University of Parma and European Studies at the European College of Parma Foundation. In Brussels
since 2006 she has been working both as Legal Advisor/Researcher at College of Europe in Bruges and Public Affairs
Advisor/Project Manager for European non-profit associations.
Project team partners
Jürgen Sturm - ELC
Jürgen Sturm is the Secretary General of the European Lamp Companies Federation (ELC) since 2009. Jürgen has
studied Law and Spanish Philology in Passau, Salamanca, Aberdeen and Cape Town. He has held senior positions in
European trade associations since 2001 in the field of transportation and energy policy. Jürgen is also the Secretary
General of the Global Lighting Forum (GLF).
Kees van Meerten - Philips Lighting
Kees van Meerten is Manager at Philips Lighting for Standardization & Regulation, Global Product Marketing. He
studied at the technical University Delft, The Netherlands. Kees is an active member in the Policy Task Force in the
“En-lighten” project of UNEP and World Bank.
Otmar Franz - Osram
Otmar Franz is Director Professional Lighting Legislation Strategy & Communication at Osram.
He holds a degree of applied science from Augsburg University; he also studied ‘Electrical Engineering’ (automation
and energy) and ‘Environmental Engineering and Immission Control’.
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Presentation of
Consortium
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James Hooker - Havells-Sylvania
James Hooker is Research & Development Manager for LED and special lamps at Havells-Sylvania where he manages
a team of engineers to drive new product development projects. James began in the lighting industry at age 13
when he discovered a method to repair failed Halogen lamps and has over twenty years of experience. He holds a
Masteràs in Materials Engineering from University of Wales, Swansea.
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Zoltan Pilter - GE
Zoltan Pilter is Product Regulatory Manager for GE Lighting, Hungary, and responsible for internal compliance with
all product regulations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He is also constantly involved in lobbying activities
towards European Institutions via the European Lighting Companies Federation on various product regulatory
matters such as WEEE and Ecodesign.
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Klaus Meyer-Pohl - Zumtobel
Klaus Meyer-Pohl is Standardisation & Regulations Manager at Zumtobel. Klaus is chair of the LED Working Group in
CELMA. Prior to his start at Zumtobel in 2009 Klaus was Standardisation Manager at Philips.
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Nils Borg - ECEEE
Nils Borg is the Executive Director of Eceee, the European Council for an Energy Efficient Economy which is a nonprofit, membership-based European NGO aiming to stimulate energy efficiency through information exchange and
co-operation. Its secretariat is based in Stockholm. Mr. Borg also works as a consultant specializing in product
efficiency, lighting and public procurement.
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Presentation of
Consortium
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Tom Lock - Energy Savings Trust
Tom Lock is Certification Manager at Energy Saving Trust, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to finding the best
ways to change people’s behavior and introduce energy-saving measures into homes.
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Peter Hunt – Lighting Industry Association
Peter Hunt is the joint Chief Executive of the Lighting Industry Association in the UK representing over 400
members. Peter has a degree in Ergonomics and has been in the lighting industry for 35 years in the domestic
lighting manufacturing business. As a member of the UK trade association Peter was President in 1992 and currently
serves as a member of the CELMA Executive Board along with many other UK and EU committees.
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Paolo Bertoldi - Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, Ispra
Since May 2001, he is Principal Administrator at the European Commission Joint Research Centre (Ispra, Italy), in
charge of research activities on energy efficiency policy, the efficient use of electricity and innovative policy
instruments for energy efficiency. He has published over 80 papers on energy efficiency in scientific journals and
conference proceedings. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the peer reviewed journal Energy Efficiency.
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Michel Quicheron - Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, Ispra
Michel is Policy Analyst for Energy Efficiency at JRC. His responsibilities include: analysing potential of new
technologies for energy efficiency, such as SSL (LED lights); policy Support to DG Energy for the implementation of
the ESD (Energy Services Directive) and monitoring of national energy efficiency action plans (NEAAPs).
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Presentation of
Consortium
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Oliver Wolf and Renata Kaps - IPTS, Seville
The IPTS (Institute for Prospective Technological Studies) is one of the seven scientific institutes of the European
Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC). Since 1994, they promote and enable a better understanding of the links
between technology, economy and society. Their mission is to provide customer-driven support to the EU policymaking process by developing science-based responses to policy challenges that have both a socio-economic as well
as a scientific/ technological dimension. Their work is undertaken, mainly, at the request of other Directorates
General of the European Commission. In addition in recent years several assignments have been carried out for the
European Parliament. IPTS collaborates closely with the other Institutes of the Joint Research Centre and multiple
partners across Europe.
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Davide Minotti - European Commission, DG Environment (Observer)
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Presentation of
Consortium
 Ad hoc WG meetings will be open to all stakeholders (industry, NGOs,
Member States, etc)
 The project website will contain all relevant information, documents and
deliverables in order to allow the project team to follow the progress of the
study
 The website will also welcome the active participation from other stakeholders
providing a “registration link” for stakeholders interested in the study and/or
in engaging in the consultation by responding to questionnaires and/or
participation at stakeholder meetings
 Comments already received from stakeholders:
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Mr. Arno Dermutz - VKI - Austrian Consumer Association, Ecolabel
Suzanna Heutling - Federal Environment Agency, Ecodesign, Environmental
Labelling, Environmentally Friendly Procurement
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Why a Stakeholder
Consortium?
 The “Eco-Lighting” project team believes that ECOLABEL
and GPP should be brought closer to the attention of all
relevant parties already in the drafting process.
 The stakeholder consortium will take up the criteria revision in
a practical and neutral way and will be able to propose a
workable, overall agreed and supported criteria catalogue.
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Project Scope
Under Article 7 of the EU Ecolabel Regulation (66/2010) :
“Following consultation of the EU Ecolabeling Board
 the Commission,
 Member States competent bodies and
 other stakeholders
may initiate and lead the development or revision of EU Ecolabel criteria”
The Eco-Lighting project will develop an evidence base from which Ecolabel and GPP
criteria for light sources will be revised. The study will:
 identify the market characteristics and technology, and trends;
 estimate the relevant environmental impacts associated with the life cycle of the
products and the life cycle costs;
 quantify the environmental improvement potential and the associated costs; and
 develop Ecolabel and GPP criteria.
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Alignment of ECOLABEL
and GPP related activities
 On 20 December 2011, the Commission adopted its proposals to modernize the
procurement directives; the public procurement directive proposal, far from defining
what is “green” or “sustainable”, is focused on simplification/flexibilisation of rules and
market access for SMEs.
 In January 2012, European Commission just published “Delivering more Sustainable
Consumption and Production”, a public consultation concerning, between others, the
Green Public Procurement issue, which will be open until the 3rd of April 2012.
 Possible scenario:
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Option 1 - revision of existing GPP criteria for product groups, maintaining the
political target of 50% use of GPP,
or instead
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Option 2 – Legislative measures: The legislative measures could include the setting
a mandatory target for the uptake of GPP at EU level
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Alignment of ECOLABEL
and GPP related activities
 Any GPP criteria established two sets of criteria:
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A core criteria are those suitable for use by any contracting
authority across the Member States and address the key
environmental impacts. They are designed to be used with
minimum additional verification effort or cost increases
A comprehensive criteria are for those who wish to purchase
the best environmental products available on the market. These
may require additional verification effort or a slight increase in
cost compared to other products with the same functionality.
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Task definition
 Task 1 - Product group definition: the scope of product group will be defined
according to standards or legislation and including environmental criteria.
 Task 2 - Economic and market analysis: this section will aim updating some basic
market data, to highlight the share of lamps. In particular, it will give an overview of
product stock, annual sales, market shares and user behavior.
 Task 3 - Technical analysis (including BAT/BNAT): this section will aim defining the
available technologies and production methods, to assess if the existing criteria have
been overcome by technological improvements, and if some new requirements need to
be tightened. This task also needs to extend to scrutinize the relevance of the current
criteria and to analyze obstacles for applying the current criteria catalogue.
 Task 4 - Policy impact and sensitivity analysis: as the development of the EU
Ecolabel criteria aims at harmonizing the existing schemes, an analysis of the main
national and international schemes covering the product group under study will be
conducted in order to see which aspects they are covering. It aims analyzing the existing
EU and some specific national legislations as well as BAT documents influencing the
sector, to assess if new mandatory requirements have been introduced, and if the
criteria are, at least, as strict as the current legislation is.
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Task definition
 Task 5 - Draft criteria proposal and technical background report: following the
publication of the preliminary report, a proposal for a draft criteria and a technical report
in support of the proposal will be established. The preferred approach in this regard is to
take into account prominently consumers' demands related to different product groups
and to ensure that eligibility is limited to the best 10 - 20% of the products in the
market. In so far a certain dynamic in the criteria catalogue will be required, which will
result in a review interval that is based on the technical improvement of the product
group and regular evaluation of market intelligence. The aim of this activity is the
revision of the Commission Decision 2011/331/EU criteria for the light sources product
group. All the comments and proposals emerged on the Preliminary Report will be
included in the Background Document, which is used as technical support to the Draft
Criteria Proposal that will be illustrated during the 2nd AHWG.
 Task 6 - Final report and manuals: The Final Report, containing the information and
the conclusions and the Final Criteria Proposal, will be the main outcome of this task. The
Final Draft Criteria Proposal will be then presented to the EUEB. After the approval of the
criteria proposal by the EUEB the Eco-label User’s manual for the applicant will be
prepared.
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Task allocation
Tasks and Tasks leaders
 Task 1 - Product group definition - K van Meerten
 Task 2 - Economic and market analysis - C Briatore
 Task 3 - Technical analysis (including BAT/BNAT) - N Borg
 Task 4 - Policy impact and sensitivity analysis - P Bertoldi
 Task 5 - Draft criteria proposal and technical background report - Z Pilter
 Task 6 - Final report and manuals - J Sturm
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Task allocation:
Meeting feedback – Task 1
Product group definition
 Focus on retail and domestic market is discussed, as there is a lack of overlap in the
concept between ECOLABEL and GPP
 As for GPP the «tertiary applications» are to be included
 Possible answer is to start with domestic market and further down include professional
applications
 The scope inclusion of luminaires is guided by the agreed «lamp – luminaire – definition»
in Ecodesign, but scope definition is part of the project deliverables
 Scope needs to become a workable balance of the different criteria, no overwheliming
preference of energy effciency
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Task allocation:
Meeting feedback – Task 1
 It is concluded that:
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the scope is «technology agnostic» as well as «fitting agnostic» for ECOLABEL,
enabling the different technologies to be eligible for the ECOLABEL in terms of a
«best in class» approach. For GPP requirements this agnostic approach will not be
applicable
the minimum requirement of energy class «A» and beyond is to be maintained,
resuting in the factual exclusion of Halogen technology
the scope should include CFLi as such, based on thorough life cycle assessment, a
focus on Hg would be too limited, as a holistic evaluation needs to be the basis for
eligibility
as for the scope limitation to «domestic» or the extesion to «tertiary» applications
related to GPP further guidance from DG ENV is to be seeked
 Subgroup task 1: Kees van Meerten, Otmar Franz, Zoltan Pilter, Chiara
Briatore/Juergen Sturm
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Task allocation:
Meeting feedback – Task 2
Economic and market analysis
 Based on the scoping, data is to be collected on:
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general European market volume on LED, CFLi
exisiting studies to be used, as well as ELC statistics, use UK data on «consumer
behaviour»
 Action:
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companies and JRC to share available data with ELC Secretariat to compile and
anonimize input
as for input related to «user behaviour» additional input from BEUC will be necessary
 Subgroup task 2: Chiara Briatore, JRC, IPTS, Peter Hunt, Tom Lock
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Task allocation:
Meeting feedback – Task 3
Technical analysis
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To decide which parameters to be measured
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Level of detail, production methods cannot be discussed
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Add “technology roadmap” to anticipate the technological general development in
order to take into account the future development of criteria
Benchmark existing criteria against technological development
Technical analysis needs to take into account that target audience is not always
technical expert level, but MS administration
Life cycle assessment to be carried out under this agenda point
Task 3 and task 5 are to be combined from the beginning of the project In order to
avoid double work and to ensure the diligent translation of the technical preparation
into the criteria setting
Subgroup task 3: Nils Borg, Kees van Meerten, Otmar Franz, James Hooker,
Zoltan Pilter
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Task allocation:
Meeting feedback – Task 4
Policy impact and sensitivity analysis
 Develop overview of existing legislation
 JRC has carried out this work for GPP part already, get in touch with Consultants that
carried out the preparatory study for the current criteria catalogue
 Clarify the reading of Task 4 as for the strictness of legislation only related to mandatory
requirements, or related to existing ECOLABEL criteria
 Remark: the aim is to create workable criteria; it could mean also less stringent criteria
 Subgroup task 4: Paolo Bertoldi, Michel Quicheron, Chiara Briatore, Renata Kaps
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Task allocation:
Meeting feedback – Task 5
Draft criteria proposal and technical background report
 Translation into Legal language; to take into account already developing task 3
 Drafting of the criteria (Ecolabel and GPP ) could now split into two parallel task forces to
be decided after clarification from Commission on GPP scope
 Subgroup task 5: to be defined
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Task allocation:
Meeting feedback – Task 6
Final report and manuals
 It is a procedure description on how to use Ecolabel and GPP for users and authorities
(tasks 3 and 5 summary)
 Subgroup task 6: Juergen Sturm, DG Environment
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Project Outline
 The duration of the project will be approximately 15 months.
 Kick-off meeting: 16th January 2012
 One month after publication of the preliminary report, the 1st AD Hoc
Working Group meeting will be held in Brussels (around month 8 –
September 2012).
 A first version of draft criteria should be published around month 8 on
the website.
 One month after publication of the revised draft criteria proposal, the 2nd
working group meeting should be held in Brussels (around month 12 –
January 2013).
 The final draft criteria will be published on the website (around
month 14) and provided to the European Commission and EUEB for further
consideration and, if so decided, the relevant administrative process and as
out in the Ecolabel Regulation.
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Questionnaire
 As preparation for the consultation, a questionnaire for gathering
information on economic and market data as well as user behavior will be
sent to stakeholders – mid February 2012
 The questionnaire seeks information, views and comments on the following:
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Product definition
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Economic and market data
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Aspects of, and trends in, product design and user behavior.
 The draft preliminary report will be published on the Eco-Lighting website
around 6 months after project start. Stakeholders should have 1 month for
comments on the report.
 Comments collected through the online consultation as well as the final
research tasks should be published in the preliminary report on the website
around 7 months after project start.
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Eco-Lighting
Website
In order to engage all relevant stakeholders an independent
product website has been created:
 www.eco-lighting-project.eu
 The website will contain all relevant information and
deliverables in order to allow the project team to follow the
progress of the study.
 The website will also welcome the active participation
from other stakeholders providing a “registration link” for
stakeholders interested in the study and/or in engaging in
the consultation by responding to questionnaires and/or
participation at stakeholder meetings.
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Any other business
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