On Wednesday 25 September, the European Commission adopted three recommendations for EU countries on the implementation of Directive 2012/27/EU on energy efficiency.
The first recommendation concerns Article 7 of the Directive, which requires European countries to achieve annual energy savings. According to the Commission, this obligation is sufficient to achieve more than half of the way to the 2030 target of 32.5% for the EU. The second concerns the information that heating and cooling users will need, and the third recommendation details how States should assess the potential for energy efficiency in this sector. Countries must send this assessment to the Commission before the end of 2020. The gap between the EU's ambition and the objectives set by the Member States in their national energy and climate plans is 6.2 percentage points for primary energy consumption, the Commission recalled at the EU Energy Council on 24 September (see EUROPE 12334/1).
To read the Commission's recommendations: https://bit.ly/2l14ScR (Original version in French by Lionel Changeur)