What changed between the adopted text of 14 Mar 2023 and the adopted text of 12 Mar 2024

Removed:For the purpose of this Directive, the following definitions apply:

Removed:1. ‘building’ means a roofed construction having walls, for which energy is used to condition the indoor environment;

Removed:2. ‘zero-emission building’ means a building with a very high energy performance, as determined in accordance with Annexes I and III, which contributes to the optimisation of the energy system through demand-side flexibility, where any very low residual amount of energy still required is fully covered by energy from:

Removed:(a) renewable sources generated or stored on-site;

Removed:(b) renewable sources generated nearby off-site and delivered through the grid in accordance with Directive (EU) 2018/2001 [amended RED];

Removed:(c) a renewable energy community within the meaning of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 [amended RED]; or

Removed:(d) renewable energy and waste heat from an efficient district heating and cooling system within the meaning of Directive (EU) .../.... [recast EED], in accordance with the requirements set out in Annex III;

Removed:3. ‘nearly zero-energy building’ means a building with a very high energy performance, as determined in accordance with Annex I, which cannot be lower than the 2023 cost-optimal level reported by Member States in accordance with Article 6(2) and where the nearly zero or very low amount of energy required is covered to a very significant extent by energy from renewable sources, including energy from renewable sources produced on-site or nearby;

Removed:3a. ‘worst-performing building’ means a building classified in energy performance classes E, F or G;

Removed:3b. ‘passive system’ means a design principle or a building element that maintains or improves energy performance or one or more indoor environment parameters with no assistance from an energy source;

Removed:4. ‘minimum energy performance standards’ means rules that require existing buildings to meet an energy performance requirement as part of a wide renovation plan for a building stock or at a trigger point on the market (sale or rent), in a period of time or by a specific date, in line with the energy efficiency first principle, thereby triggering renovation of existing buildings;

Removed:4a. ‘energy efficiency first’ means energy efficiency first as defined in Article 2, point (18), of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999;

Removed:5. ‘public bodies’ means public bodies as defined in Article 2, point (10), of Directive (EU) .../... [recast EED];

Removed:6. ‘technical building system’ means technical equipment for space heating, space cooling, ventilation, domestic hot water, built-in lighting, building automation and control, electrically operated solar shading, electrical installations, electric-vehicles charging stations, on-site renewable energy generation and storage, or a combination thereof, including those systems using energy from renewable sources, of a building or building unit;

Removed:6a. ‘demand-side flexibility’ means the capacity of active customers to react to external signals and adjust their energy generation and consumption, individually or through aggregation, in a dynamic time-dependent way, which may be provided by smart, decentralised energy resources, including demand management, energy storage, and distributed renewable generation, to support a more reliable, sustainable and efficient energy system;

Removed:6b. ‘cooling system’ means a combination of passive and active components required to provide a form of indoor air treatment by which the temperature is lowered;

Removed:6c. ‘electrical installation’ means a system composed of fixed components, including switchboards, electrical cables, earthing systems, sockets, switches and light fittings, which have the purpose of distributing electrical power within a building to all points of use or transmit electricity generated on-site;

Removed:6d. ‘system efficiency’ means the selection of energy-efficient solutions which enable a cost-effective decarbonisation pathway, additional flexibility and the efficient use of resources;

Removed:6e. 'ventilation system’ means a combination of components required to provide a renewal of indoor air by outdoor air;

Removed:7. ‘building automation and control system’ means a system comprising all products, software and engineering services that can support energy efficient, economical and safe operation of technical building systems through automatic controls and by facilitating the manual management of those technical building systems;

Removed:8. ‘energy performance of a building’ means the calculated or metered amount of energy needed to meet the energy demand associated with a typical use of the building, which includes, inter alia, energy used for heating, cooling, ventilation, hot water, ▌ lighting and technical building systems;

Removed:9. ‘primary energy’ means energy from renewable and non-renewable sources which has not undergone any conversion or transformation process;

Removed:9a. ‘final energy’ means energy from renewable or non-renewable sources that has undergone a conversion or transformation process for the purpose of ensuring that it is ready for consumption and supply to end-users;

Removed:9b. ‘metered’ means measured by a relevant device, such as an energy meter, a power meter, a power metering and monitoring device, or an electricity meter;

Removed:10. ‘non-renewable primary energy factor’ means non-renewable primary energy for a given energy carrier, including the delivered energy and the calculated energy overheads of delivery to the points of use, divided by the delivered energy;

Removed:11. ‘renewable primary energy factor’ means renewable primary energy from an on-site, nearby or distant energy source that is delivered via a given energy carrier, including the delivered energy and the calculated energy overheads of delivery to the points of use, divided by the delivered energy;

Removed:12. ‘total primary energy factor’ means the weighted sum of renewable and non-renewable primary energy factors for a given energy carrier;

Removed:13. ‘energy from renewable sources’ or ‘renewable energy’ means energy from renewable non-fossil sources as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Directive (EU) 2018/2001;

Removed:14. ‘building envelope’ means the integrated elements of a building which separate its interior from the outdoor environment;

Removed:15. ‘building unit’ means a section, floor or apartment within a building which is designed or altered to be used separately;

Removed:16. ‘building element’ means a technical building system or an element of the building envelope;

Removed:17. ‘dwelling’ means a physical space consisting of a room or suite of rooms in a permanent building or a structurally separated part of a building which is designed for habitation by one private household to develop their basic life functions all year round;

Removed:18. ‘renovation passport’ means a document that provides a tailored roadmap for the deep renovation of a specific building in a maximum number of steps that will transform the building into a zero emission building by 2050 at the latest;

Removed:19. ‘deep renovation’ means a renovation in line with the energy efficiency first principle and efforts to reduce whole life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions generated during the renovation, which focuses on essential building items, such as wall insulation, roof insulation, low floor insulation, replacement of external joinery, ventilation and heating or heating systems and treatment of thermal bridges, to ensure the necessary comfort of the occupants in summer and winter or a renovation resulting in a reduction of at least 60 % primary energy demand for worst-performing buildings for which it is technically and economically not feasible to achieve a zero-emission building standard, and which transforms a building or building unit:

Removed:(a) before 1 January 2027, into a nearly zero-energy building;

Removed:(b) from 1 January 2027, into a zero-emission building;

Removed:20. ‘staged deep renovation’ means a deep renovation carried out in a maximum number of steps, following the steps set out in a renovation passport in accordance with Article 10, which may include the use of energy performance contracts;

Removed:21. ‘major renovation’ means the renovation of a building where either, depending on the choice of a Member State:

Removed:(a) the total cost of the renovation relating to the building envelope or the technical building systems is higher than 25 % of the value of the building, excluding the value of the land upon which the building is situated; or

Removed:(b) more than 25 % of the surface of the building envelope undergoes renovation;

Removed:▌

Removed:22. “operational greenhouse gas emissions” means greenhouse gas emissions associated with energy consumption of the technical building systems during use and operation of the building;

Removed:23. ‘whole life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions’ means the combined greenhouse gas emissions associated with the building at all stages of its life-cycle, considering the benefits from reuse and recycling at the end-of-life, from the ‘cradle’ (the extraction of the raw materials that are used in the construction of the building) over the material production and processing, and the building’s operation stage, to the ‘end-of-life’ (the deconstruction of the building and reuse, recycling, other recovery and disposal of its materials);

Removed:24. ‘life-cycle global warming potential’ or ‘life-cycle GWP’ means an indicator which quantifies the global warming potential contributions of a building along its full life-cycle;

Removed:25. ’split incentives’ means split incentives as defined in Article 2(52) of [recast EED];

Removed:26. ‘energy poverty’ means energy poverty as defined in Article 2(49) of [recast EED];

Removed:27. ‘vulnerable households’ means households in or at risk of energy poverty or households, including lower middle-income ones, that are particularly exposed to high energy costs and lack the means to renovate the building they occupy;

Removed:28. ‘European standard’ or ‘EN standard’ means a standard adopted by the European Committee for Standardisation, the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation or the European Telecommunications Standards Institute and made available for public use;

Removed:29. ‘energy performance certificate’ means a certificate recognised by a Member State or by a legal person designated by it, which indicates the energy and climate performance of a building or building unit, calculated according to a methodology adopted in accordance with Article 4;

Removed:30. ‘cogeneration’ means simultaneous generation in one process of thermal energy and electrical or mechanical energy;

Removed:31. ‘cost-optimal level’ means the energy performance level which leads to the lowest cost during the estimated economic lifecycle, established by applying the cost-optimal methodology where:

Removed:(a) the lowest cost is determined taking into account:

Removed:(i) the category and use of building concerned:

Removed:(ii) energy-related investment costs based on official forecasts;

Removed:(iii) maintenance and operating costs, including energy costs taking into account the cost of greenhouse gas allowances;

Removed:(iv) environmental and health externalities of energy use;

Removed:(v) earnings from energy produced on-site, where applicable;

Removed:(vi) waste management costs, where applicable; ▌

Removed:(via) social externalities of building renovations, construction, demolition including the modification of built areas;

Removed:(b) the estimated economic lifecycle is determined by each Member State and refers to the remaining estimated economic lifecycle of a building where energy performance requirements are set for the building as a whole, or to the estimated economic lifecycle of a building element where energy performance requirements are set for building elements.