Tuesday Jan 19, 2010
New year, new efficiency hopes
Happy 2010 to all our readers! This promises to be very eventful year for the Coolproducts campaign and the crucial piece of European Union legislation we are monitoring – the Eco-Design of Energy Using Products Directive. We have a new European Commission, a relatively new European Parliament and a number of important minimum requirements...
Monday Nov 23, 2009
Compromise decisions emerge on A-G label and buildings
A final agreement was reached last week on two key EU energy efficiency policies: the revision of the energy efficiency legislation for buildings and the revision of the EU A-G energy labelling scheme.
On the energy label, the dispute (which we wrote about here and then here) between the European Parliament and some Member States led by the...