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EC directive
General information about EC directives
EC directive
An EC directive is binding for each member state it is directed to,
but the member state may decide itself the form and procedure for
implementation.
According to the EC treaty, directives can be adopted by the
Europe an Parliament and the Council, solely by the Council or by
the Commission. Within the civil collaboration it is more common
to use an ordinance than a directive. When an EC directive has been
adopted it is to be implemented by each of the member states, that
is to say, transformed into national legislation.
EU, laws and regulations
EU is sometimes illustrated as a building consisting of three
columns. The columns make up the EU’s dierent areas of coopera-
tion and one of the reasons for the distinction is that the laws and
regulations adopted by the EU work in dierent ways depending on
which areas the regulations have their basis.
EU-structure
The first column, European
community or the commu-
nity column, embraces the
larger part of cooperation
within the EU. The laws
and regulations that the
member states adopt in this
column are known as EC law
and have their judicial basis in the EC treaty. It is primarily within EC
law that the EC court may expound and judge.
According to the EC court, EC law shall apply before national law.
This means that a national law that contravenes EC law shall not be
applied. Included in EC law are:
1. The EC treaty and Euratom treaty in their applicable tenors.
2. Legal acts adopted by the EU institutions, for example, ordinances
and directives.
3. Agreements between the EU and countries outside of the EU.
4. EC court’s legal practice. The EC court determines in its judge-
ments how EC law is to be expounded.
The EU can also adopt dierent types of legal acts within the second
column, which includes the EU’s cooperation concerning foreign
and security policies, and the third column, which contains police
and criminal cooperation.
Exactly as in the first column, some legal acts within these pillars
can be legally binding for the member states. The member states
are then obliged to follow and apply the legal acts. Other legal acts
are solely politically binding and the member states are expected to
observe them.
EU
European Union
1st column
(supranational)
2nd column
(international)
3rd column
(international)
European
Community
European Mon-
etary System
-
community of
law with uniform
legislation
Common Foreign
& Security
Policy
European
Political
Cooperation
and police
cooperation
removal of the
internal borders
within EU
Council of ministers
Common standards
Work to produce common European standards that specify the new
method-directive’s demands on health, safety and the environment
is carried out by the European standardisation bodies CEN, Cenelec
and ETSI.
CEN stands for Comité Européen de Normalisation, i.e. the Euro-
pean standardisation committee. CEN manages virtually all sectors
within the industry. CEN, with its headquarters in Brussels, Belgium,
has 27 member countries and six associated countries. Representa-
tives from the European commission and Efta also participate in the
work to draw up standards.
European standards:
EN 1837 Safety on machinery – Integral lighting of machines.
EN 1838 Emergency lighting.
EN 12193 Sports Lighting.
EN 12665 Basic terms and criteria for specifying lighting
requirements.
EN 12464-1 Lighting of work places – Part 1: Indoor work places.
EN 13861 Safety of machinery – Guidance for application of
ergonomics standards in design of machinery.
EN 13032-1 Measurement and presentation of photometric data
of lamps and luminaires – Part 1: Measurement and
file format.
EN 13032-2 Measurement and presentation of photometric data
of lamps and luminaires – Part 2: Presentation of
data for indoor and outdoor work places.
EN 13201-2 Road Lighting – Part 2: Performance requirements.
EN 13201-3 Road Lighting – Part 3: Calculation of performance.
EN 13201-4
Road Lighting – Part 4: Methods of measuring lighting.
EN 15193 Energy performance of Buildings – Energy require-
ments for lighting.
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