Following the EU's WEEE Directive and the RoHS Directive, the European Union issued another Green Directive on Energy Consumption on July 6, 2005. The Energy Product Ecodesign Framework Directive (Eup-Energy-UsingProducts) instruction). For the first time, the directive introduces the life cycle concept into the product design process. It aims to start from the source and put forward environmental protection requirements for energy-using products during the cycle of product design, manufacturing, use, maintenance, recycling and post-processing. Monitor product environmental impact and reduce damage to the environment. The EUP Directive covers a wide range of products, including in principle all energy-intensive products placed on the market. The energy consumed by the products includes electrical energy, solid fuels, liquid fuels and gaseous fuels. The EU requires all member states to develop specific requirements for related products and translate them into national regulations by August 11, 2007 to ensure that the EUP eco-design directives operate effectively. The implementation of this directive will be a revolution in design thinking for most designers in China. Because the directive runs through the entire life cycle of the product, it has a great influence, and the introduction of the directive does not stipulate the technical details, and it has great operational flexibility in execution. Therefore, the EUP directive will be more concealed for the enterprise. Technical barriers to trade. The directive requires companies to consider new factors such as function, performance, materials, structure, appearance, versatility, safety, packaging, cost, standards, certification, etc., as well as the entire product in its life cycle. The extent of the impact on energy, environment, and natural resources, as well as products that comply with the EUP Directive must be accompanied by the CE mark in order to obtain a pass for the product to be placed on the European market. It is reported that China's exports to the EU's electronic products, water heaters, electric engine systems, lighting in residential and tertiary industries, as well as heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems will be the first product categories that require compliance. Among them, as an important energy-consuming product - lamps, it is one of the most serious product categories affected by EUP. China's lamps and lanterns are cheap and good, occupying an important position in the international lighting market, of which Guangdong is the main base for China's lighting exports. In 2002, the total value of Guangdong's lighting exports was 1.88 billion US dollars. In 2005, it rose to 3.06 billion US dollars, with an average annual growth rate of 17.6%. In the first four months of 2006, the total value of exports was $970 million, an increase of 24.4% over the same period last year. Of these, lamps exported to the United States and the European Union accounted for more than 80% of total exports. Although China's lamps are rich in variety and low in price, there are also problems of popular style and low grade. There are few large-scale high-value-added, high-grade or new-type lamps and lanterns for industrial lighting and public lighting. The low scientific and technological content and low grade have weakened the export competitiveness of China's lighting products to a certain extent. In addition, the price advantage of China's luminaires has been difficult to sustain under the influence of the EU's “Double Green Directive”. The “Double Green Directive”, the WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive) was implemented on August 13, 2005, RoHS (on electronic The restriction on the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical equipment was also implemented on July 1, 2006. The implementation of the two directives has greatly increased the export cost of the lamps. The requirements of the EUP Directive are more stringent. It not only brings the specific raw material cost pressure and huge supply chain management cost as the RoHS directive, but also the EUP directive covers the entire product life cycle, and its supply chain management will be pulled again. Stretching, not only upstream, but also production, sales, recycling details, manufacturers will increase the cost of various. In addition, during the product design phase, the company's integration of environmental factors may lead to a rapid increase in additional costs, such as the cost of adaptation of the company's internal organization, the necessary environmental information and knowledge acquisition costs, and the implementation cost of the relevant design. Producing and maintaining integrated documents may also incur additional costs and fees for obtaining relevant certifications. Therefore, the implementation of the EUP directive will make the situation of China's lighting products export "worse." However, in recent years, various lighting manufacturers have been struggling to cope with various directives. The implementation of the RoHS directive and the WEEE directive have already made the company exhausted. At present, most companies focus their efforts on RoHS testing. However, it is unavoidable that the content of EUP will be more and more complicated. It is more difficult to deal with the technical level and awareness of existing home appliance manufacturers. “Simple RoHS has already made the manufacturers busy, let alone EUP” . In April 2006, Zhongshan Inspection and Quarantine Bureau conducted a survey on the EUP order in the ancient town of Zhongshan, China's lighting capital. It found that most companies have a certain understanding of the RoHS directive and the WEEE directive, but they have a certain understanding of the EUP. The order is still very strange, a few companies have only heard of this order, but do not understand its specific content. Although the directive will have a very direct impact on the export of lighting products, many manufacturers only consider whether the quality, appearance and style of the lighting meet the requirements of customers in the production design and development, and the “environmental factors” in the product life cycle. One was not included in the consideration.


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