Taiwan to discuss the solution of LED light source case

For dealing with related authorities accepted the people petitioned the marquee, billboards, neon lights, and LED flashing light and LED electronic billboard brightness is too high, cause visual disturbances, affect the driver's line of sight and traffic safety problems, recently, the Taiwan Environmental Protection Department invited the Ministry of the interior construction department and the county (city) government held a light pollution control regulations review and description of the meeting.

The meeting recommended construction department in "billboard and set up advertising management approach" to review and amend relevant regulations on the use of lighting, and asked the county (city) government to promote local autonomy law review assessment by the revised advertisement flicker type light source to limit the use of regulations, the types and ways of advertisement lighting in the application review process, and for the new LED combined flashing patterns or in addition to their advertising billboard and establish the legitimacy and control practice of advertisement setting, exchange of views.

Taiwan environmental protection department said that the advertisement flashing light and high brightness improvement suggestions from the counties (city) government should consider the territory under the jurisdiction of lighting and commercial activities demand patterns, further review of local self-government regulations and regulations restricting the use of the revised, and close to light late at night time, should be able to receive the actual effect.

At present, Taipei City, Taichung City, Miaoli County in the local autonomy regulations have provisions to limit the use of flashing light, relevant content and Practice for other county (city) reference government, while Taipei municipal government also establish "Taipei city light pollution prevention management rules" draft, after the completion of other county (city) government, the Department is also optimistic.

As for the store set up a high brightness and dazzling combination of LED flashing pattern advertising, the Department suggested that local governments, if the families of the store illegal settings, according to traffic and construction management and other related laws and regulations. If the store family legal construction, but the impact on traffic safety in danger of flashing light source advertisement set, can set this case report counties (city) government will be reported to determine whether Daoan influence road traffic safety, and according to billboard and establish advertising management measures to deal with law.

The environmental protection department has called for the establishment of the advertising industry to set up the object of advertising, in addition to attracting the attention of passers-by or drivers, and the social responsibility that does not affect the lives and safety of others.