Ecodesign requirements for energy-using products: Commission implementing powers

The Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety unanimously adopted the report by Frederique RIES (ALDE, BE) amending, at first reading of the codecision procedure, the Commission proposal aiming to align Directive 2005/32/EC establishing a framework for the setting of ecodesign requirements for energy-using products, and other related directives to the new comitology procedure, regulatory procedure with scrutiny.

This new comitology procedure shall apply to certain aspects of the directive, however, MEPs considered it necessary to amend other aspects of the directive so as to provide that the Commission should be empowered to adopt implementing measures laying down ecodesign requirements for defined energy-using products, including the introduction of implementing measures during the transitional period, and to adopt guidelines accompanying these implementing measures in accordance with the regulatory procedure with scrutiny.