Electrical products not ecological enough
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Almost one third of electric products available on the Polish market does not meet the EU ecological requirements, according to the Office of Competition and Customer Protection (UOKiK).
The quality control was conducted due to an EU environmental requirements project which Poland has been implementing.
As much as 27.7 percent of such products as washing machines, air conditioners and lamps did not have certain documents or their labeling is incorrect. The controllers from the Trade Inspection authority (IH) also checked if any incandescent lamps or halogen light bulbs were placed on the market.
IH inspected 1235 products, 61 percent of them were manufactured outside of the EU.
Majority of the producers eliminated any incompatibilities, UOKiK informed.
Ecoproject is a package of environmental regulations adapted by the European Commission aimed to reduce CO2 emissions by 12 pct through 2020.
