That's just following normal CENELEC guidelines. The Irish system's already changed over to that colour scheme (quite a while ago for Neutral (blue) and L1 (Brown) )
Makes a lot of sense as most consumers are only aware of the flexible cord colours from wiring plugs etc.. if they're suddenly confronted with black and red cables they get confused.
[This message has been edited by djk (edited 05-05-2003).]
