(To be put into 1.3.3 -- )
Existing legislation relevant to streetlighting products and systems
August 30, 2007, a very good legislation has been accepted in Slovenia.
Similar legislation in practice has been proven to work within Italy.
The
law valid in Lombardy (since 2000, with amendments from 2004 and 2005) and
in seven other provinces of Italy (the provinces comprise
over 24 million inhabitants) has the following demands for
all new outdoor lighting installations and reconstructions of the
existing lighting systems, whenever the old luminaries are changed to
new ones:
1- each luminaire is to have zero specific luminous intensity
horizontally and upwards (emit no more than 0.49 cd/klm over 90°)
(there are exemptions, but not applicable for streetlighting)
2- level of luminance and illuminance shall be no more than the minimum
defined by European technical norms (UNI10439, DIN5044, EN 13201, etc..)
3- Efficient lamps (over 89 lm/W) are mandatory
4- New lighting installations shall be highly optimised
(e.g., for new streetlighting, ratio
distance of two poles / pole height
shall be over 3.7;
for non-streetlight installation,
the Utilisation Factor is to be optimised).
5- Lighting flux reducer systems are mandatory - there is to be a possibility
to reduce the full luminous flux by at least 30 per cent.
1 and 3 are product-related requirements, 3, 4 and 5 are system-related ones.
5 can be fulfilled at the product level, using a programmable ballast.
The law has an explicit requirement to manufacturers, importers and sellers
(non-compliant products are not allowed to enter the market in these provinces).
The text from Lombardy reads:
``8. Le case costruttrici, importatrici o fornitrici devono certificare, tra
le caratteristiche tecniche degli apparecchi commercializzati, la
rispondenza del singolo prodotto alla presente legge ed alle norme
tecniche di attuazione, corredandolo della dichiarazione di conformità
rilasciata da riconosciuti istituti nazionali e internazionali operanti
nel settore della sicurezza e qualità dei prodotti e delle aziende, nonché
delle raccomandazioni circa la corretta installazione ed uso''
It can be translated as:
``Manufacturers, importers and sellers have to certify, together with other
technical parameters of the offered products, the compliance of the
product with the present law and its implementing standards; this is to be
done by including a declaration of conformity issued by national or
international institutes working at the field of safety and product
quality, and instructions for correct installation and use.''
Further requirement concerns just producers (English translation only,
from legislation valid in Lombardy):
``the producers are obliged (always) to furnish, for each product
installed in Lombardy, photometric data on paper and on file eulumdat
CERTIFIED and SIGNED by the laboratory manager that made the measurements.''
(This is THE WAY to demonstrate the conformity of the luminaires to the
law.)
The current eight regions with almost the same legislation are
(common designations of laws included):
Lombardia LR17/00 and LR38/04, Marche LR10/02,
Emilia Romagna LR19/03, Abruzzo LR12/05,
Puglia LR15/05, Umbria LR20/05,
Friuli-Venezia Giulia LR15/2007, Liguria LR22/2007
(see their
overview,
a hypertext access to them is available from
http://cielobuio.org/Article905.html).
An illustrated manual for anybody concerned with the original legislation
of Lombardy (before the 2004 amendment, demanding e.g. immediate reconstruction
of all lighting affecting directly any protected natural areas)
is available at
http://cielobuio.org/lombardy.php -- the first part of the manual being
(there's a M$word version too)
http://www.cielobuio.org/cielobuio/lrl17/visualreg17en.htm
and the complete manual in a pdf version (7 MB)
http://amper.ped.muni.cz/light/VISUALreg17eng.pdf
(the English of the translation is far from perfect, but understandable
for people working in streetlighting).