On 8 November 2017, the European Commission, the Council and the European Parliament reached a provisional agreement to revise the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) for the period after 2020. The agreement is the result of 2 years of intense negations between the 3 institutions and several years of advocacy of Glass for Europe. Compared
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On October 30, Glass for Europe participated in the Final Workshop on Cumulative Cost Assessment of the EU Ceramics and Glass Industriesorganised by CEPS (Centre for European Policy Studies). The research, which was commissioned by the European Commission, quantifies the regulatory costs generated in the last 10 years by EU legislation in the flat glass industry
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On October 17 in Brussels, Glass for Europe celebrated 55 years of activities with a cocktail event. The anniversary offered the opportunity of the official launch of Glass for Europe’s enlargement to European representatives of building glass transformers and processors. On this occasion, Glass for Europe also unveiled its new visual identity. Almost 100 guests took part
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On October 2017, the European Commission launched an Inception Impact Assessment on Carbon Leakage List 2021 – 2030. The Inception Impact Assessment (or Roadmap) is part of the preparatory phase of decision making process and allows the European Commission to describe the scope, purpose and timing of new laws and policies and to collect inputs from
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On October 11, the ITRE Committee of the European Parliament voted with a large majority in favour of the Bendtsen’s report on the review of the Energy Performance of Building Directive. To Glass for Europe, the report, which amends the European Commission proposal released last year as part of Clean Energy Package, goes in the right direction.
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“I want to make our industry stronger and more competitive” stated President Jean-Claude Juncker on 13 September 2018, during its speech on the State of the Union. “The new Industrial Policy Strategy we are presenting today will help our industries stay or become the world leader in innovation, digitisation and decarbonisation“, he added to confirm the commitment
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On 20 June, the European Commission launched the public consultation “Evaluation and possible revision of the Construction Products Regulation (CPR)” to collect input on the future of this regulation. This phase of the legislative process is also know as “Inception Impact Assessment” and aims to inform stakeholders about the Commission’s work and allows to provide feedback and
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Significant energy saving potential of windows impeded by an inadequate EU policy framework Under the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), EU Member States are required to put in place minimum levels of energy performance for building envelope elements when they are retrofitted or replaced. While the recast EPBD has been in place for over
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