ECOS welcomes the preliminary outcomes of a recent CEN-CENELEC Workshop on the participation of societal stakeholders’ organisations in standardisation, held in Brussels on 8 March. This Workshop was organised in response to a joint letter of ECOS, ETUC, and ANEC to the governance bodies of the European Standardisation Organisations (ESOs), CEN, CENELEC and ETSI, of […]

On January 28 2016, ahead of the 12th TTIP negotiations round, ECOS published a position paper to express concerns regarding the TTIP chapters relating to EU-US regulatory cooperation and Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT). In these chapters, the EU suggests facilitating the harmonisation of standards based on mutual interest and exchange, for instance through a process […]

In 2014-2015 ECOS, alongside a number of other civil society organisations, participated in a nano-dialogue run by BASF. This European dialogue was a natural progression on a national German dialogue run by BASF, as an extension of the German government’s national nano-dialogue. ECOS took part so as to be able to discuss in more depth […]

In December 2015, the Commission presented a proposal to revise the Ecodesign and Energy Label lighting regulations with the intention of merging several lighting regulations into one. With only one regulation to follow, industry and market surveillance authorities can easily adhere to it, and although we support the intention, there was a clear lack of […]

Europe got one step closer to seeing better energy performance from commercial servers and storage sold in Europe. Consultants working for the European Commission published a report recommending energy efficiency requirements and, in a second step, label schemes. This move will temper growing energy demand from the sector. As an ever-increasing high-tech society, the power consumption […]

On February 8th 2016, the draft standard prEN 50614 ‘Requirements for the preparation for re-use of waste electrical and electronic equipment’ was circulated to National Standardisation Bodies for a first round of commenting. prEN 50614 was developed by CLC/TC 111x ‘Environment’ as a response to the European Commission’s M/518 Mandate, requiring European Standardisation Organisations to […]

Earlier this month, ECOS and INFORSE-Europe recommended standardisers to reject FprEN 16510-1 on “Residential solid fuel burning appliances” it. This is a product category within the scope of the Ecodesign regulations (specifically Regulation (EU) 2015/1185). Despite our recommendations, the current version of the standard was approved on 21 March by the national standardisation organisations. ECOS hopes that […]

The eMobility Platform is a joint industry and NGO effort to accelerate the transition in Europe towards a sustainable multi-modal electro-mobility. ECOS participates in the eMobility Platform to provide recommendations for standardisation, on-board metering and electricity roaming for eMobility in the Platform’s recommendation paper, while sharing expertise on other relevant topics. On the 21st April […]

ECOS submitted input to the Public Consultation on a new Renewable Energy Directive for the period of 2020-2030, which was included in the European Commission’s 2013 REFIT programme. Currently, the Directive is not considered suitable to achieve at least a 27% share of renewables by 2030. While welcoming the achievements of the current Renewable Energy […]

ECOS has been invited to join a sub-group of the Sustainable Transport Forum (STF), which was established to provide advice to the European Commission for the implementation of the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Directive (AFI). The STF is made up of Member State representatives and experts, acting as a  platform for dialogue between them. The sub-group […]