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On Wednesday, 12 February, the European Commission unveiled its 2025 Work Programme, which focuses on strengthening EU competitiveness, advancing industrial decarbonisation, and ensuring regulatory efficiency. While the Commission has officially outlined its legislative and policy priorities for this year, the concrete steps of this new mandate are gradually unfolding. You will find an overview of...
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Lighting Association Ireland (LAI) recently held its AGM in the RDS Members Club with the usual excellent attendance. The meeting format takes place around a large table rather than in theatre style, and this makes for a more engaging and inter-active process. It was a very successful event with representatives from most of the 31-strong...
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Friday, 28 June marked the beginning of a new era in Ecodesign as the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) was published in the Official Journal of the EU. Following on from the European Commission’s legislative proposal in March 2022, EU co-legislators – the European Parliament and the Council of the EU – spent over...
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LightingEurope has issued two position papers related to the implementation of the revised Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD). The revised EPBD was published in the EU Official Journal on 8 May last and member States now have two years to transpose this legislation at the national level. The Working Group on the Value of Lighting...
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With lighting now recognised as having a major role to play in realising Ireland’s Net Zero objective, Building Services Engineering recently caught up with Gavin Edwards, newly-elected Chair of Lighting Association Ireland (LAI), to examine the contribution lighting can make by way of energy savings, sustainability, circularity and wellbeing. These, in fact, are the core...
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A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in...
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Gay Byrne, EIFI President and LAI delegate, with Lionel Brunet, President, LightingEurope; Ourania Georgoutsakou, Secretary General, LightingEurope and Gavin Edwards, Vice-Chair, LAI Two Lighting Association Ireland (LAI) delegates – Gay Byrne and Gavin Edwards – attended the recent LightingEurope General Assembly dinner and conference. The occasion also featured the LightingEurope 2021 and 2022 President’s Awards...
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Gabriel Byrne, Lighting Association Ireland (LAI) delegate to LightingEurope, was elected to its Executive Board during the recent general assembly in Brussels. On his election Ourania Georgoutsakou, LightingEurope Secretary General, said:  “Gabriel’s long experience in lighting, both as a company owner and as a leader of industry associations, will be of great value to the...
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