Bulb regs coming
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ALL NEW vehicle bulbs will have to be rnarked, to show they comply with the reit" international standards.
Regulations bringing this effect were approved by Lords last month after Ur Secretary for the Environn Lord Bellwin said that half bulb imports were not appro to any recognised standard, many replacement bulbs f the Far East were of extren low quality.
This made a mockery of requirements for vehicles tc fitted with approved lamp (Jr he said.
The UK vehicle filament lz market totalled about 130 lion units a year, and about of these were imported.
The regulations would reqi nearly all new vehicle bulbs I went on sale six months a they had been signed to marked to show that they cc plied with the relevant si dards.
Lord Underhill wondei whether there was a possl danger of small suppliers hay stocks which might last bey( the six-month period, and told that there must always that possibility. But as far as was aware, said Lord Belly nobody had brought forw that point as a cause for concE