Argentina will prohibit from January 1st 2020 the importation, exportation and production of the following mercury-added products in an effort to comply with the provisions of the Minamata Convention on Mercury:
• compact fluorescent lamps for general lighting purposes, with a power of 30 watts or lower and a mercury content greater than 5 mg per lamp burner;
• the following linear fluorescent lamps for general lighting purposes: tri-band phosphor with a power of less than 60 watts and a mercury content greater than 5 mg per lamp, and phosphor in halophosphate with a power of 40 watts or less and a mercury content greater than 10 mg per lamp;
• high-pressure mercury vapour lamps for general lighting applications;
• mercury in cold cathode fluorescent lamps and external electrode fluorescent lamps for electronic displays of short length (no greater than 500 mm) with a mercury content greater than 3.5 mg per lamp, of medium length (greater than 500 mm but no greater than 1,500 mm) with a mercury content greater than 5 mg per lamp, or of long length (greater than 1,500 mm) with a mercury content greater than 13 mg per lamp;

All details in the Ministry for Environment and Sustainable Development (Nr. 75/2019)