ECOS welcomed the inclusion of On-Board Metering (OBM) in the standardisation request on ‘Certain Measuring Instruments’, adopted by Member States during the Committee on Standards meeting on 7 October. The request initially asked for standards concerning the legal metrological control of delivery of electricity for use in electrical means of transport. ECOS’ arguments for including […]

Technical Committees are rarely aware of the need to consider hazardous chemicals in product standards, often lacking the expertise needed in order to draft specific provisions. The CEN chemicals project aims to provide tailored support to standardisers by creating a CEN Guide for including such provisions in standards, ensuring that product standards in the market comply […]

Organised by CEN/TC 383 ‘Sustainably produced biomass for energy applications’, WG 3 ‘Biodiversity and environmental aspects’, on November 24 ECOS attended a study tour introducing SCA Forest Products in Sundsvall, Sweden. SCA is a leading global hygiene and forest products’ company and one of Europe’s largest private forest owner. The study tour also visited Bogrundet tree […]

Thanks to Ecodesign and Energy Labelling, adopted energy efficiency measures are expected to decrease Europe’s energy dependence by as much as 175 million tonnes of oil equivalent annually by 2020, 48 percent of Europe’s 2020 energy savings target. That is a staggering amount, enough to offset 219 large coal power stations (500 MW) producing the […]

ECOS became a member of ETSI, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, in spring 2015. ECOS Director Laura Degallaix presented ECOS’ organisation and work plan, as well as expectations from the collaboration, at the ETSI 66th General Assembly meeting in Nice-Sofia Antipolis, on 17-18 November 2015. ECOS is interested in contributing to ETSI’s activities in the […]

Brussels, 18 November 2015 Industry and civil society groups working on transport have criticised today’s State of the Energy Union speech by Commission Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič for failing to prioritise e-mobility as a major means of decarbonising transport. The majority of EU states lag significantly behind Norway – where one out of every five cars sold is […]

In a joint letter addressed to Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič, Commissioner Violeta Bulc, and Commissioner Miguel Arias Cañete, the Platform for Electro-Mobility, which ECOS is a member of, stresses that a decarbonised European transport sector can only be achieved through electro-mobility.   Whilst some progress is being made, Europe is failing to leverage the full potential of the single […]

ECOS believes that there is a strong role for the European Union to play in supporting innovation in the windows products’ market. To name but a few, a European Energy label for windows would bring the following advantages: It would trigger substantial energy savings, estimated 7 Mtoe per year by 2030; It would improve the […]

Developed through the Efficiency 2.1 project, ecoGator is a free app which helps consumers identify and buy the most energy-efficient products on the market. It also gives tips on how to save money at home carrying out day-to-day activities.  The app builds on the European energy label schemes through a scanning function, comparing products with those available on Topten at […]

Why and how Europe should introduce mandatory product registration and a public database for energy-related products? In this recommendation and discussion paper we have co-written with our partner TopTen, the benefits of a product database are presented. The paper argues that mandatory product registration with a related database will provide market data for policy decisions and […]