Environmentalists say lighting industry say given ‘free pass’ after being exempted in tightened loopholes on energy performance advertising The EU has voted to shut loopholes that allow home appliance manufacturers to make misleading claims approximately their products’ energy performance,but environmentalists are incandescent that lightbulbs absorb been excluded from the new rules.
Companies will no longer be able to test fridges, TVs and dishwashers using a 10% margin of error between their advertised and actual energy consumptions, and under an amendment to Europe’s ecodesign laws approved by national experts in Brussels on Tuesday.
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Source: theguardian.com