What changed between the draft committee report and the plenary report

Added:3b. Member States shall introduce measures to ensure that the use of fossil fuelheating systems in buildings undergoing major renovation, deep renovation or renovation of the heating systemis not authorised from ...[ date of transposition of this Directive]. Hybrid heating systems, boilers certified to run on renewable fuels and other technical building systems not exclusively using fossil fuels that comply with the requirements set out in Article 11(1) shall not be considered to be fossil heating systems for the purposes of this paragraph.

Removed:Amendment necessary for pressing reasons relating to the internal logic of the text.

Added:Member States shall ensure that renovations involving the replacement of fossil fuel based technical building systems prioritise vulnerable households and people living in social housing.

Removed:Article 32 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1: Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Articles 1 to 3, 5 to 26, 29 and 32 and Annexes I to III and V to IX by 1 November 2023. They shall immediately communicate the text of those measures and a correlation table to the Commission.

Added:3c. By 1 January 2027, Member States shall take special administrative and financial measures to encourage the deep worst performing buildings with multiple dwellings. Article 9

Removed:Annex I – point 1 – paragraph 1: 1. The energy performance of a building shall be determined on the basis of calculated or metered energy use and shall reflect typical energy use for space heating, space cooling, domestic hot water, ventilation, built-in lighting and other technical building systems. Member States shall ensure that the typical energy use is representative of actual operating conditions for each relevant typology and reflects the typical user behaviour. Typical energy use and typical user behaviour shall be based on available national statistics, building codes and metered data.

Added:Minimum energy performance standards

Removed:The amendment is inextricably linked to other admissible amendments.

Added:1. Member States shall ensure that all buildings comply with minimum energy performance standards, starting with the worst performing buildings.

Removed:Annex I – point 1 – paragraph 4: The energy performance of a building shall be expressed by a numeric indicator of primary and final energy use per unit of reference floor area per year, in kWh/(m2.y) and an indicator of energy needs for heating, cooling, ventilation and hot water, including transmission and ventilation losses and deducting solar and internal gains according to ISO 52000 in kWh/m²/year for the purpose of both energy performance certification and compliance with minimum energy performance requirements. The methodology applied for the determination of the energy performance of a building shall be transparent and open to innovation.

Added:1a. Member States shall ensure that:

Removed:The amendment is inextricably linked to other admissible amendments.

Added:(a) buildings and building units owned by public bodies, including Union institutions, offices, bodies and agencies and those rented by such bodies after... [the date of entry into force of this Directive], achieve at the latest:

Removed:Annex I – point 1 – paragraph 6: Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that, where buildings are supplied by district heating or cooling systems, the benefits of such supply are recognised and accounted for in the calculation methodology, in particular the renewable energy share, through individually certified or recognised primary energy factors.

Added:(i) from 1 January 2027, at least energy performance class E and

Removed:The amendment is inextricably linked to other admissible amendments.

Added:(ii) from 1 January 2030, at least energy performance class D;

Removed:Annex I – point 2 – paragraph 3: The calculation of primary energy shall be based on dynamic primary energy factors, (distinguishing non-renewable, renewable and total) per energy carrier, which have to be recognised by the national authorities and taking into account the expected energy mix based on its National Energy and Climate Plan. Those primary energy factors may be based on national, regional or local information. Primary energy factors may be set on an annual, seasonal monthly, daily or hourly basis or on more specific information made available for individual district systems.

Added:(b) non-residential buildings and building units other than those referred to in point (a) achieve at the latest:

Removed:The amendment is inextricably linked to other admissible amendments.

Added:(i) from 1 January 2027, at least energy performance class E; and

Removed:Annex I – point 2 – paragraph 4: Primary energy factors or weighting factors shall be defined by Member States. The choices made and data sources shall be reported according to EN 17423 or any superseding document. Member States shall opt for a primary energy factor reflecting the electricity mix in the country. In the application of those factors to the calculation of energy performance, Member States shall ensure that the optimal energy performance of the building envelope is pursued.

Added:(ii) from 1 January 2030, at least energy performance class D;

Removed:The amendment is inextricably linked to other admissible amendments.

Added:(c) residential buildings and building units achieve at the latest:

Removed:Annex I – point 3: 3. For the purpose of expressing the energy performance of a building, Member States shall define additional numeric indicators of total, non-renewable and renewable primary energy use, and of operational greenhouse gas emissions produced in kgCO2eq/(m2.y).

Added:(i) from 1 January 2030, at least energy performance class E and

Removed:The amendment is inextricably linked to other admissible amendments.

Added:(ii) from 1 January 2033 at least energy performance class D;

Removed:Annex I – point 4 – point b: (b) heating installation and hot water supply, including their insulation characteristics and heat recovery;

Added:In their roadmap referred to in Article 3(1)(b), Member States shall establish linear trajectory for the progressive achievement of higher energy performance classes for buildings referred to in this paragraph ▌by 2040 and 2050, in line with the pathway for transforming the national building stock into zero-emission buildings and achieving the climate neutrality target.

Removed:The amendment is inextricably linked to other admissible amendments.

Added:1b. Member States may exempt publicly owned social housing from the obligation referred to in paragraph 1a, point (a),where such renovations are not cost neutral or would lead to rent increases for people living in social housing beyond the economic savings on the energy bill.

Removed:Annex II – table – point a – column 2 – row 1: Overview of the total share, number and location of unoccupied buildings, and vacant properties in common-property buildings

Added:1c. The Commission may decide, upon a reasoned request by a Member State included in the national building renovation plan or a subsequent amendment thereto, to allow that a Member State adjust minimum energy performance standards for residential buildings and building units referred to in paragraph 1a, point (c) for specific parts or particular sub-segments of their building stock, for reasons of economic and technical feasibility and the availability of skilled workforce. Member States that intend to adjust their minimum energy performance standards shall notify the Comission of their projected measures and linear energy performance improvements, and report on the progress in achieving equivalent performance improvements in residential buildings as part of the reporting on the integrated national energy and climate progress reports referred to in Article 3(8). Member States shall not disproportionately exempt rental dwellings compared to other building segments when applying any adjustments of the minimum energy performance standards.

Removed:Annex II – table – point a – column 2 – row 2: Number of buildings categorised as officially protected as part of a designated environment or because of their special architectural or historical merit as compared to 2020

Added:1d. The adjustment of minimum energy performance standards referred to in paragraphs 1a and 1b shall apply to a maximum of 22% of the total residential buildings referred to in paragraph 1a, point (c) and shall not apply after 1 January 2037.

Removed:Annex II – table – point a – column 2 – row 3: — to nearly zero-energy and to zero-emission building levels

Added:2. In addition to the minimum energy performance standards established pursuant to paragraph 1, each Member State shall establish minimum energy performance standards for the renovation of all other existing buildings.

Removed:Annex II – table – point a – column 2 – row 5: Annual operational greenhouse gas emissions (kgCO2eq/(m2.y): / Annual operational greenhouse gas emission reduction (kgCO2eq/(m2.y): / Life-cycle GWP (kgCO2eq/m2): / — per building type / Life-cycle GWP reduction (kgCO2eq/m2): / — per building type

Added:▌The minimum energy performance standards shall be designed with a view to the national roadmap and the ▌2040 and 2050 targets contained in the Member State’s building renovation plan and to the transformation of the national building stock into zero-emission buildings by 2050.

Removed:Annex II – table – point a – column 2 – row 6: Number of: / — Energy service companies / — construction companies / — architects and engineers / — skilled workers / - Training programmes and facilities focused on energetic renovation / — one-stop-shops per 50 000 inhabitants / — SMEs in the construction/renovation sector / - Renewable energy communities and citizen energy communities providing educational, awareness, and technical support to households

Added:3. In accordance with Article 15, Member States shall support compliance with minimum energy performance standards by all the following measures:

Removed:Annex II – table – point a – column 3 – row 6: (deleted) / (deleted) / (deleted) / (deleted) / (deleted) / (deleted) / (deleted)

Added:(a) providing appropriate financial measures, including grants, in particular those targeting vulnerable households, middle-income households and people ▌ living in social housing, in linewith Article 22 of Directive (EU).../…. [recast EED];

Removed:Annex II – table – point a – column 2 – row 7: Energy poverty (disaggregated by gender):

Added:(b) providing technical assistance, including information services, administrative support and integrated renovation services through one-stop-shops with a particular focus on vulnerable households and people living in social housing, in accordance with Article 22 of Directive (EU).../…. [recast EED];

Removed:Annex II – table – point a – column 2 – row 9: - description of regions and number of zero emission buildings per climate zone

Added:(c) designing integrated public and private financing schemes, which provide incentives for deep and staged deep renovations, pursuant to Article 15;

Removed:Annex II – table – point a – column 2 – row 9 a (new): Number of new bicycle parking spaces, including for cargo bikes, and e-bike charging stations

Added:(d) removing non-economic barriers, including split incentives; ▌

Removed:Annex II – table – point a – column 2 – row 10: [Cost-optimal minimum requirements for new and existing buildings]

Added:(e) monitoring social impacts, in particular on ▌the most vulnerable households;

Removed:Annex II – table – point b – column 2 – row 11: — deep renovations / Targets for expected share (%) of renovated buildings: / — per building type / — per renovation depth

Added:(ea) setting the framework to ensure that there is a sufficient and qualified workforce to enable the timely implementation of the minimum energy performance standards in accordance with the national building renovation plans, including by means of a strategy to facilitate the professional education of young people and requalification of workers and creation of more attractive employment opportunities.

Removed:Annex II – table – point b – column 3 – row 11: deleted / (deleted) / (deleted)

Added:4. Where a building is renovated in order to comply with a minimum energy performance standard, Member States shall ensure compliance with the minimum energy performance requirements for building elements pursuant to Article 5 and, in the case of major renovation, with the minimum energy performance requirements for existing buildings pursuant to Article

Removed:Annex II – table – point b – column 2 – row 12: - share of energy from renewable sources in the building sector (MW generated) / - numerical targets for the deployment of solar energy and heat pumps in buildings / Milestones and trajectories for buildings to achieve the performance classes pursuant to Article 9(1) and higher energy performance classes in line with reaching the climate neutrality goal / Targets for increase of share of energy in line with the indicative target for the share of energy from renewable sources in the building sector set in Article 15a(1) of ... [amended RED] / Targets for the decarbonisation of heating and cooling, including through district heating and cooling networks using renewable energy and waste heat in line with the requirements set in Articles 23 and 24 of [amended EED] and requirements set in Articles 15, 15a, 20, 23 and 24 of ... [amended RED] / Targets for constructing bicycle parking spaces, developed in line with the relevant provisions of this Directive.

Added:4a. Member States shall promote energy storage for renewable energy to enable renewable energy self-consumption and reduce volatility as well as promote and provide incentives for the cost-effective and early replacement of heaters, and any needed resulting optimisation of the related technical building systems.

Removed:Annex II – table – point b – column 3 – row 12: deleted