Explanatory note

These Regulations prohibit a person from supplying, offering to supply, agreeing to supply, exposing for supply or possessing for supply any filament lamp of a type to which an ECE Regulation or Community Instrument mentioned in an item in column 2 of the Table to Regulation 2 applies unless it is marked with a marking designated as an approval mark by the Motor Vehicles (Designation of Approval Marks) Regulations 1979.

The following Table is added as a matter of convenience. Where the number of an item in the Table to Regulation 2(1) is specified in column 2 in an item in the Table below, the ECE Regulation or Community Instrument mentioned in the item in the Table to Regulation 2(1) categorises the filament lamps to which it relates by the letters and numbers specified in the item in column 3 of the Table below. The type of lamp (as described in the ECE Regulation or Community Instrument) in which a filament lamp so categorised is normally used is indicated in the relevant item in column 4 of the Table below, and the rated wattage of such a filament lamp as specified in the ECE Regulation or Community Instrument is as shown in that item in column 5 of that Table. Where, in column 6 of the Table below, a number is shown that number is the one usually given to the filament lamp as a matter of trade practice.