The Zero Waste Festival, organised by ECOS member Zero Waste France in Paris, attracted 5 0000 participants including NGOs, entrepreneurs, start-ups and decision makers, to partake in over 200 workshops and plenary sessions, from 30 June to 1st July. This festival is just a first step towards a zero waste society, discussing a wide range […]

ECOS has been involved in discussions on the draft F-Gas Standardisation Request of the European Commission to the European standardisation organisations, which was recently launched for consultation among stakeholders. The Request was initiated following the findings of the F-Gas Consultation Forum, which sought to identify barriers to low Global Warming Potential (GWP) alternatives to HFC […]

Following ECOS’ successful advocacy for inclusion of on-board metering of electric vehicles (EVs) to be included in the Standardisation Request M/541 ‘certain measuring instruments’, work began on the 25th May in CLC/TC 13 ‘Electrical energy measurement and control’ to produce a standardisation deliverable. In the first meeting, ECOS outlined why on-board metering will be a […]

As part of the editorial team, ECOS has contributed to the report ‘Interoperability of the H1/H2 interfaces of the Flexible Demand Architecture applied in the large scale roll-out of smart metering systems in EU Member States, due to be published later this year. Developed by the Smart Grid Task Force Expert Group ‘Standards and Interoperability’, the […]

At the ECOS Annual General Meeting, held in Brussels on the 20th of June, ECOS welcomed three new Full members: Zero Waste Europe is a pan-European NGO empowering communities to rethink their relationship with resources. ZWE aim to “re-design society so that all superfluous waste is eliminated and everything that is produced can be re-used, […]

Digi-Label, an EU-funded project which ECOS is part of, is designed to let retailers empower customers purchasing electronic goods, by enabling them to compare the performance of each product, and ultimately help them pick the most energy efficient  appliances on the market. Consumers will be able to access information about a gadget’s true energy efficiency […]

In July, ECOS, together with the other “Annex III” organisations – ANEC, ETUC, SBS – tabled a proposal on how the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) can improve inclusiveness in its practices. The proposals were agreed upon in a joint paper by all the societal stakeholder organisations and included: Recognising Annex III organisations as pan-European, […]

After a strong political debate in the ITRE Committee, and the vote in the full parliament plenary in early July, the ambitious first draft of the Rapporteur has been reigned in, but some key concerns of the members of Coolproducts were still supported by the parliament.  A majority vote in the Plenary gave MEP Tamburrano […]