The European Parliament has endorsed a revised EU Construction Products Regulation (CPR) that shifts action to the implementation phase instead of introducing mandatory requirements right away. The agreed law takes some timid steps forward, but without the comprehensive measures that are needed it is a far cry from the jump-start on decarbonisation that progressive voices have been calling for.
Negotiations on the EU Construction Products Regulation (CPR) have concluded, with green groups disappointed that sustainability requirements for construction products continue to lack vision and oversight. The EU’s failure to take meaningful action to regulate this hugely polluting sector means that for the time being the construction industry has dodged decarbonisation, derailing the EU’s path to carbon neutrality.
ECOS is looking for experts in the field of Green Public Procurement (GPP) to represent and defend environmental interests, with a focus on construction materials. Experts will provide ECOS with relevant expertise and support in policy processes through the drafting of policy and legal recommendations on the role of different European and national (green) procurement laws currently under development.
Today, the European Parliament’s ENVI Committee voted to speed up decarbonisation by introducing requirements that would cover the environmental impact of cement in the proposed Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR)[1].
ECOS, with industry players, associations, and other NGOs sent a letter to Member State representatives in the Council with recommendations for an environmentally ambitious Construction Products Regulation (CPR).
No other industry in the EU consumes more resources, energy and produces more waste by weight – and is a formidable polluter - than the construction industry. Ahead of the European Parliament's public hearing on 'Making the Internal Market for Construction Products fit for the 21st century', ECOS recommends six steps to amend the CPR.
Cement is omnipresent in modern life, serving as the key binder in concrete and mortar products. We find cement everywhere: in our roads, bridges, major buildings. However, while cheap to produce, it comes at a high cost for the environment.
We welcome the European Commission’s proposal to revise the Construction Products Regulation (CPR), in particular the effort to align with the environmentally sound principles put forward by the Eco-design Regulation for Sustainable Products (ESPR).
Ahead of the European Commission's proposal for the revision of the Construction Products Regulation (CPR), ECOS calls on policymakers to submit an ambitious revision fully in line with the horizontal principles of the forthcoming Sustainable Products Initiative (SPI), as a one in a decade opportunity to make sustainable construction products the norm.
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