From 1 September in Europe will begin operating a ban on the manufacture of incandescent lamps of 100 watts. They gradually replace the cost of lighting elements. However, citizens and vendors in panic add to their holdings of traditional bulbs

In the supermarket business

Germany in summer one can often see buyers who pull the cart in the usual pear-shaped bulbs scores, some even - hundreds. It seems that tomorrow they can expect the risk to sit in the dark. What is true is that, starting in September, to address the European Commission of the European market should disappear bulb of 100 watts. Then, from September 1, 2010-On - the ban on production would touch 75-cotton and so on until the end of 2012.

So it was decided at the initiative of Lithuanian European Commissioner responsible for energy, Andris Piebalgs. Motivation simple: a traditional light bulb converts only 5% of energy in the light, the rest - in unnecessary heat.

network construction supermarkets Obi captures remarkable boom in the first half of 2009, increasing sales of the lamps by 27%, compared with the first half of the past. The network Praktiker demand for 100-cotton model increased by 150%.

All of this has already been recalled to panic, said the head of the manufacturer cost-saving lamps Megaman Werner Wyzner. Some buyers of the observations of its representatives, have already bought so much that they would be enough for 20 years.

Wyzner convinced that European officials, in words, the concern about energy conservation, in fact, his help to ban the artificial demand for products uneconomical. Instead, the bureaucrats would cost to implement the trade margin 5 euro for one energy-lamp. Then the consumer would think twice. It should be noted that the price of one energy-saving lamps ranges from 5-6 to 15-20 euros. While the old lamps can be bought for 1 euro.

However

and shops, too, is not wasted time, and the stockpiled goods. Indeed, the EU directive from September 1 to stop the production and import of old models, but does not prohibit them.

As observed

Der Spiegel, the European Union, through the Lithuanian Piebalgs had underestimated the force of consumer attitudes. Oszczędna lamps emit cooler pulsating lights, as well as a source of powerful electromagnetic fields and the harmful mercury, this is the verdict of ordinary buyers.