EC proposal to overhaul the system of 41 lighting regulations to minimize design-specific criteria (and thus the constant flow of rule revisions and overlap among rules) by focusing on performance requirements.

Outcome of the first meeting of interested experts to explore ways to reduce the administrative and regulatory burdens associated with the current structure of lighting regulations, including difficulties in transposing UN lighting regulations into local legislation in the EU and Japan. The experts recommend reactivation of the “Horizontal Reference Document” initiative.

GTB white paper on priorities and objectives for the simplification of lighting regulations, especially regarding reduction of the current burdens associated with the necessity of collective amendments in the development of these regulations and the longer-term difficulties to be overcome in restructuring these regulations and their legal framework.

Draft scope and objectives for the proposed program to restructure and simplify UN lighting and light-signaling equipment regulations.

Concordance of technical definitions used across UN lighting regulations.

GTB discussion paper to focus attention on defining the problem(s) to be resolved through a the simplification of UN lighting regulations.