The Minamata Convention will officially become effective in 2020. Fluorescent lamps and high-pressure mercury lamps will be phased out.
October 12 14:06:46, 2019
On October 10, 2013, China, as the first signatory countries, signed the Convention on Minamata of Mercury (hereinafter referred to as the Minamata Convention). The Minamata Convention clarifies that the corresponding mercury-added products should complete their production and import and export phase-out in 2020, and the Minamata Convention was adopted by the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress on April 28, 2016. On the 10th of the month, China signed the Convention on Minamata of Mercury (hereinafter referred to as the Minamata Convention) as the first signatory countries. The Minamata Convention clarifies that the corresponding mercury-added products should complete their production and import and export phase-out in 2020, and the Minamata Convention was adopted by the Standing Committee of the Twelfth National People's Congress on the 28th of April, 2016. The meeting was approved and will enter into force in 2020. Fluorescent lamp products and high-pressure mercury lamps are listed as restricted and eliminated by the Minamata Convention. The lighting products involved include compact fluorescent lamps for general lighting applications, straight tube fluorescent lamps for general lighting applications and for general lighting applications. The high-pressure mercury lamps, the specific prohibition on the production, import or export time requirements of the products are as follows: Since 2008, the China Lighting Association has closely cooperated with the relevant departments of the Ministry of Environmental Protection to participate in the negotiation of the Minamata Convention on Mercury. Through the working mechanism of the Global Lighting Association, the Association has also reached consensus with the same industry organizations in the countries of the production and use of major lighting electrical products such as the United States, the European Union, Japan, Australia, etc., and reached a consensus on the exemption restrictions on mercury-added lighting products in the Convention. And strive for more positive outcomes of the negotiations. In the past five years, the lighting industry's mercury content limit requirements for related products have also been publicized in the whole industry in the form of national standards or industry standards. At present, the restrictions on the relevant products in the Convention in China's national standards are stricter than the requirements of the Convention. With the maturity and wide application of LED lighting technology, the production and sales of mercury-filled fluorescent lamps will gradually shrink with the changes in the market. China Lighting Association called on relevant enterprises in the industry to actively respond to and promote China's implementation of its obligations under the Convention, and to eliminate the elimination of fluorescent lamps and high-pressure mercury lamps.