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Germans take dim view of light bulb inspections
Published: 20 Aug 12 14:24 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20120820-44469.html
German state governments say they would have to employ extra staff to police the European ban on filament light bulbs if they are to make the checks called for by the European Commission.
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"To be able to sell such bulbs legally, manufacturers must write visibly on the packaging that these bulbs are not meant for the household," his spokeswoman Marlene Holzner told Die Welt newspaper.
The EU's ban on old-fashioned energy-guzzling filament bulbs has been phased in one wattage at a time, over the past few years, but the complete ban comes into effect on September 1.
There is an exemption for reinforced bulbs meant for workshops or mines, and Holzner said retailers had to put these in separate, specially designated sections. "It would not be acceptable to put these lamps on the same shelves as LED and energy-saving bulbs for normal households," she said.
But this is exactly what is happening according to Sunday’s edition of the Tagesspiegel newspaper.
The commission has called on German authorities to carry out in-shop inspections to police the ban.
Germany's state market surveillance authorities, who would be responsible for these inspections, offered a mixed response to the EU's request.
Berlin and Brandenburg's authorities said they would need extra employees, while the North Rhine-Westphalia office said they had not planned any measures to police the light bulb ban so far.
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Criminal light bulds . Do the light buld police carry guns? Do the police arrive at the scene of such crimes "ready for action"? Do they come the scene of the crime with lights and sirens going or do they sneak up on these criminals with great stealth? Could this happen any where other than Germany? My thanks to the German people I was feeling a little depressed but now I am having a good laugh.
I will not list them here but anyone living here with their eyes open will know.
who's there?
the light bulb gestapo.
Or just like bike riding laws. If cyclists constantly break the law, the law is rewritten to accommodate it. In my Kreis, due to the number of cyclists that ignore the radwegnutzung pflicht, said pflicht has been abolished Kreis wide...........Should be fun when the fist cyclist is knocked off, a big mess of lawyers, insurance companies and judges that will go on and on and on and.............
in ireland the smoking ban is well preserved!
are germans worse?
the problem is the disposal of the cfl's
no one collect these chineese garbage!they do not keep working 10 years.it is lie!
http://freedomlightbulb.org/2012/08/germans-dim-view-of-light-bulb.html