The European Commission has voted to postpone the ban on energy-inefficient halogen bulbs until September 2018 despite the ban originally being planned for September 2016.
The ban is part of a wider strategy to promote more energy-efficient technologies, such as LED.
The European Commission said it came to a conclusion that September 2016 "would be too early for LED technology to fully replace halogen lamps" and it made sense to wait for "lower LED prices and a better LED performance" in 2018.
