The European Commission (EC) is undertaking an aggressive overhaul and expansion of the Ecodesign Directive to allow for the future regulation of the environmental sustainability of a wider range of ...

As part of its strategy to mitigate climate change, in 2007 the EU set a target of a 20 percent increase of energy efficiency in products, as compared to 2007 levels, by 2020. In 2018, the EU ...

Progress continues in a number of areas within the European Commission’s (EC) Ecodesign Directive, including the Commission’s new “working plan” to identify the next group of products for efficiency ...

This has been an active year for the Ecodesign Directive for Energy related Products, the European Commission’s comprehensive energy efficiency program covering consumer and industrial goods.

The Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation aims to reverse detrimental trends, making sustainable products the norm in the EU market and diminishing overall environmental and climate impacts.

The current eco-design rules deal only with energy saving products, such as washing machines, freezers or hair-dryers. The new directive also covers products that can be designed to save energy such ...

The Council has adopted its position (‘general approach’) on the proposed regulation establishing a framework for setting ecodesign requirements for sustainable products. The new regulation will ...

While the old directive only covered energy-related products, the ESPR now allows ecodesign requirements to be set for nearly all products traded within the EU. The regulation defines ecodesign as ...

This press release has been updated on 22 December 2023 to add the text of the regulation. The Council and the Parliament have today reached a provisional political agreement on the proposed ...