A planned EU ban on incandescent lightbulbs got the go ahead from the European Parliament's Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee on 17 February, when MEPs rejected a proposal for a veto by a large majority. German MEPs Anja Weisgerber, who is from the centre right European People's Party, and the liberal Holger Krahmer had joined forces for the proposal that the Committee should reject the draft implementing measure under the ecodesign of energy-using products directive. The two argued in the draft resolution that "a ban on a product by implementing measures is disproportionate."
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