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Press release | Europe’s standardisation system is unique in the world as its architecture lays the ground for balanced participation, with multi-stakeholder expertise built in via the presence of European stakeholder organisations representing the public interest. This ensures standards are developed with both private and public expertise, ensuring high-quality world-class standards deliver both competitiveness and public policy objectives. Today’s proposed Standardisation Regulation revision maintains this balance, which is the bedrock of globally influential, market-ready standards that advance the EU’s green transition, ECOS says.
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Press briefing | Widely applied Digital Product Passports (DPP) will transform EU product policy. But setting up a DPP framework in the forthcoming European Product Regulation is only the tip of the iceberg. Every product’s digital record must be linked to data – and the measurements will be standardised. Find out how the EU can build a stronger, more sustainable Single Market through DPP, product legislation, and the standardisation system that underpins it all.
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With 2.5 trillion euros on the table, public procurement can be a powerful tool for decarbonisation – and the European Commission is finally unleashing it. For the first time, EU procurement rules could consider more than only the upfront price tag, setting up Europe’s industries for a low-carbon future with benefits for taxpayers, the environment, citizens, and businesses. However, today’s draft Public Procurement Act leaves room for improvement, ECOS says, because it proposes to repeal existing sectoral legislation in key sectors, replacing it by a generic empowerment to procurers to include mandatory green public procurement rules.
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Press briefing, Brussels | The EU’s Public Procurement Act (PPA) will transform how 2.5 trillion euros of taxpayer money is spent across Europe – the bloc’s biggest opportunity to reward EU innovators, secure long-term investments in decarbonisation, and increase resilience.
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PRESS RELEASE | With today’s Electrification Action Plan [1], the European Commission has taken an important step towards a cleaner, competitive and secure Europe. But it could do more to deliver the full benefits of electrification, ECOS says, including making sure it is powered by renewables, prioritising energy efficiency, and better integrating heat pumps and electric vehicles with the electricity grid. It also overlooks the massive environmental impacts of data centres– a gaping hole that must be properly addressed at EU level.
Press release, Brussels | The EU’s new Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) deprioritises decarbonisation with insufficient and unclear public procurement measures for clean industrial products and low quotas for concrete and steel, environmental group ECOS says. Mainstreaming green public procurement is the EU’s most powerful climate solution, with the power to make or break Europe’s climate credibility. Stifling its potential will be a missed opportunity, ECOS explains.
The Rethink Plastic Alliance is deeply concerned by the Commission’s decision to allow the use of certain problematic, so-called ‘chemical recycling’ technologies to achieve the EU’s recycling targets. The first full recognition of ‘chemical recycling’ can set a dangerous precedent for future legislation.
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