What changed between the draft committee report and the plenary report

Added:- increased security of supply through higher energy performance and the deployment of solar technologies on buildings;

Added:- reduced negative externalities such as avoided cost of carbon emissions, avoided climate change impacts and damage (climate mitigation and adaptation);

Added:- impact on carbon pricing, including levels, volatility and sensitivity;

Added:- stimulation of the local, regional and national economies, including local job creation and with a specific focus on microenterprises and SMEs in the construction and renovation sectors.

Added:The environmental, energy, economy and health externalities shall be calculated starting from the report due in 2025.

Added:The Commission shall also provide:

Added:– guidelines to accompany the comparative methodology framework; those guidelines will serve to enable the Member States to undertake the steps listed below;

Added:– information on estimated long-term energy and green-house gas emission price developments as well as volatility and sensitivity.

Added:The energy and emission performance shall be carried out using the calculation methodology on the basis of this Directive. For the application of the comparative methodology framework by Member States, general conditions, expressed by parameters, shall be laid down at Member State level. The Commission shall issue recommendations to Member States regarding their cost optimality levels and their coherence with the climate trajectories

Added:The comparative methodology framework shall require Member States to:

Added:– define reference buildings that are characterised by and representative of their functionality and geographic location, including indoor and outdoor climate conditions. The reference buildings shall cover residential and non-residential buildings, both new and existing ones;

Added:– define energy efficiency measures to be assessed for the reference buildings. Those may be measures for individual buildings as a whole, for individual building elements, or for a combination of building elements;

Added:– assess the final and primary energy need and resulting emissions of the reference buildings with the defined energy efficiency measures applied;

Added:– calculate the costs (i.e. the net present value) of the energy efficiency measures (as referred to in the second indent) during the expected economic lifecycle applied to the reference buildings (as referred to in the first indent) by applying the comparative methodology framework principles;

Added:– calculate the global costs from a financial and macroeconomic perspective.

Added:By calculating the costs of the energy efficiency measures during the expected economic lifecycle, the cost-effectiveness of different levels of minimum energy performance requirements is assessed by the Member States. That will allow the determination of cost-optimal levels of energy performance requirements.

Added:Repealed Directive with list of the successive amendments thereto (referred to in Article 33)

Added:Time-limits for transposition into national law and dates of application

Added:(referred to in Article 33)

Added:Amendments to parts of the proposal which remain unchanged ('white parts') were necessary for pressing reasons relating to the internal logic of the text or because the amendments are inextricably linked to other admissible amendments.