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

Removed:The cost-optimal level shall lie within the range of performance levels where the cost benefit analysis calculated over the estimated economic lifecycle is positive;

Removed:32. ‘recharging point’ means a recharging point as defined in Article 2(41) of [AFIR];

Removed:32a. 'pre-cabling' means all measures that are necessary to enable the installation of recharging points, including data transmission, cable routes, spaces for transformers and electricity meters, and upgrade of the electrical board;

Removed:33. ‘micro isolated system’ means any system with consumption less than 500 GWh in the year 2022, where there is no connection with other systems;

Removed:34. ‘smart charging’ means smart charging as defined in Article 2(14l) of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 [amended RED];

Removed:35. ‘bidirectional charging’ means bidirectional charging as defined in Article 2(14n) of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 [amended RED];

Removed:35a. ‘digitally connected recharging point’ means a recharging point that can send and receive information in real time, that can communicate bidirectionally with the electricity grid and the electric vehicle, and that can be remotely monitored and controlled, including to start and stop the recharging session and to measure electricity flows;

Removed:36. 'mortgage portfolio standards’ means mechanisms requiring mortgage lenders, including banks, investors, and other relevant financial institutions, such as final holders of mortgages housed in special purpose vehicles, securitisation companies and other intermediate bodies, to establish a path to increase the median energy performance of the portfolio of buildings covered by their mortgages towards 2030 and 2050, with a view to ensuring reliable, evidence-based and affordable solutions for their clients, in line with the Union’s decarbonisation ambition and national building renovation plans and relevant energy targets in the area of energy consumption in buildings, relying on the definition of sustainable economic activities in the EU Taxonomy and in line with energy performance certificates and the life-cycle GWP, in accordance with this Directive;

Removed:36a. ‘pay-as-you-save financial scheme’ means a loan scheme dedicated exclusively to energy performance improvements, where the annualised repayments on the loan do not exceed the monetary equivalent of the yearly energy savings, taking into account the indexation of the energy cost and loan re-financing;

Removed:36b. ‘energy building benchmark’ means an information platform to publicly disclose energy performance and yearly consumptions of single and multi-unit buildings over time, compared to similar buildings or to modelled simulations of a reference building built to a specific standard, such as minimum energy performance standards, and using the range of energy performance classes;

Removed:37. ‘digital building logbook’ means a common repository for all relevant building data, including data related to energy performance such as energy performance certificates, renovation passports and smart readiness indicators, as well as on the life-cycle GWP and indoor environmental quality, which facilitates informed decision making and information sharing within the construction sector, among building owners and occupants, financial institutions and public authorities;

Removed:38. ‘air-conditioning system’ means a combination of the components required to provide a form of indoor air treatment, by which temperature is controlled or can be lowered;

Removed:39. ‘heating system’ means a combination of the components required to provide a form of indoor air treatment, by which the temperature is increased;

Removed:40. ‘heat generator’ means the part of a heating system that generates useful heat for uses identified in Annex I, using one or more of the following processes:

Removed:(a) the combustion of fuels in, for example, a boiler;

Removed:(b) the Joule effect, taking place in the heating elements of an electric resistance heating system;

Removed:(c) capturing heat from ambient air, ventilation exhaust air, or a water or ground heat source using a heat pump;

Removed:40a. ‘heat pump’ means a machine, a device or an installation that transfers heat from a source such as the air, water or the ground, to sinks such as buildings or industrial applications, for the purpose of providing heating, cooling or domestic hot water;

Removed:41. ‘energy performance contracting’ means energy performance contracting as defined in Article 2, point (29), of Directive (EU) …/… [recast Energy Efficiency Directive]

Removed:42. ‘boiler’ means the combined boiler body-burner unit, designed to transmit to fluids the heat released from burning;

Removed:43 ‘effective rated output’ means the maximum calorific output, expressed in kW, specified and guaranteed by the manufacturer as being deliverable during continuous operation while complying with the useful efficiency indicated by the manufacturer;

Removed:44. ‘district heating’ or ‘district cooling’ means the distribution of thermal energy in the form of steam, hot water or chilled liquids, from a central source of production through a network to multiple buildings or sites, for the use of space or process heating or cooling;

Removed:44a. ‘integrated district’ means a district selected on the basis of an analysis of building stock, taking into account the area-specific potentials for energy efficiency measures by means of clear and measurable objectives and that develops renovation road map templates for similar building types, following an adequate analysis of local conditions, with the aim of a rapid, resource-efficient and mutually coordinated transformation of buildings, as well as other aspects, such as the social structure, the economic and environmental conditions and the energy supply infrastructure of buildings;

Removed:45. ‘useful floor area’ means the area of the floor of a building needed as parameter to quantify specific conditions of use that are expressed per unit of floor area and for the application of the simplifications and the zoning and (re-)allocation rules, taking into account national, European and international standards;

Removed:45a. ‘waste heat’ means unavoidable heat generated as by-product in industrial or power generation installations, or in the tertiary sector, which would be dissipated unused in air or water without access to a district heating or cooling system, where a cogeneration process has been used or will be used or where cogeneration is not feasible;

Removed:46. ‘reference floor area’ means the floor area used as reference size for the assessment of the energy performance of a building, calculated as the sum of the useful floor areas of the spaces within the building envelope specified for the energy performance assessment;

Removed:47. ‘assessment boundary’ means the boundary where the delivered and exported energy are measured or calculated;

Removed:48. ‘on-site’ means the premises and the land on which the building is located and the building itself;

Removed:49. ‘energy from renewable sources produced nearby’ means energy from renewable sources produced within a local or district level perimeter of the building assessed, which fulfils all the following conditions:

Removed:(a) it can only be distributed and used within that local and district level perimeter through a dedicated distribution network;

Removed:(b) it allows for the calculation of a specific primary energy factor valid only for the energy from renewable sources produced within that local or district level perimeter; and

Removed:(c) it can be used on-site of the building assessed through a dedicated connection to the energy production source, that dedicated connection requiring specific equipment for the safe supply and metering of energy for self-use of the building assessed;

Removed:50. ‘energy performance of buildings (EPB) services’ means the services, such as heating, cooling, ventilation, domestic hot water and lighting and others for which the energy use is taken into account in the energy performance of buildings;

Removed:51. ‘energy needs’ means the energy to be delivered to, or extracted from, a conditioned space to maintain the intended space conditions during a given period of time, taking into account transmission and ventilation losses and solar and internal gains in accordance with EN standards, disregarding any technical building system inefficiencies;

Removed:52. ‘energy use’ means energy input to a technical building system providing a EPB-service intended to satisfy an energy need;

Removed:53. ‘self-used’ means part of on-site or nearby produced renewable energy used simultaneously by on-site technical systems for EPB services;

Removed:54. ‘other on-site uses’ means energy used on-site for uses other than EPB services, and may include appliances, miscellaneous and ancillary loads, domestic batteries energy storage systems or electro-mobility charging points;

Removed:55. ‘calculation interval’ means the discrete time interval used for the calculation of the energy performance;

Removed:56. ‘delivered energy’ means energy, expressed per energy carrier, supplied to the technical building systems through the assessment boundary, to satisfy the uses taken into account or to produce the exported energy;

Removed:57. ‘exported energy’ means, expressed per energy carrier and per primary energy factor, the proportion of the renewable energy that is exported to the energy grid instead of being used on site for self-use or for other on-site uses;

Removed:57a. ‘secondary material’ means material recovered from previous use or from waste which substitutes primary materials as defined in the construction framework standard EN 15643;

Removed:57b. ‘bicycle parking space’ means a designated space for at least one bicycle, which provides secure and easy storage for a variety of bicycle types and which may be lit and protected from the weather;

Removed:57c. ‘physically adjacent’ means a car park which is intended for the use of residents, visitors, or workers of a building, which is located within the property area of the building or which is in the direct vicinity of the building;

Removed:57d. ‘circularity’ means the reduction of the need for extraction of virgin materials through the reduction of demand for new materials, through repair, reuse, repurposing, and recycling of used materials and through the extension of the lifetime of products and buildings;

Removed:57e. ‘sufficiency’ means the minimisation of demand for energy, materials, land, water, and other natural resources over the lifecycle of buildings and goods;

Removed:57f. ‘bill of materials’ means a record of the type, source and quantity of construction products and materials that are used to construct or renovate a building, which affect its thermal performance and technical system efficiency in accordance with Annex I, as well as its fire performance and indoor environmental quality;

Removed:57g. ‘indoor environmental quality’ means a set of parameters relating to a building, including indoor air quality, thermal comfort, lighting, and acoustic affecting the health and wellbeing of its occupants;

Removed:57h. ‘healthy indoor climate’ means the indoor environment of a building, which optimises the health, comfort and well-being of occupants in line with specific performance levels, including those related to daylight, indoor air quality and thermal comfort, such as mitigating overheating and enhancing acoustic quality.

Removed:Article 3

Removed:National building renovation plan

Removed:1. Each Member State shall establish a national building renovation plan to ensure the renovation of the national stock of residential and non-residential buildings, both public and private, into a highly energy efficient and decarbonised building stock by 2050, with the objective to transform existing buildings into zero-emission buildings.

Removed:Each building renovation plan shall comply with the energy efficiency first principle and shall encompass:

Removed:(a) an overview of the national building stock for different building types, including their share in the building stock, in particular of buildings categorised as officially protected as part of a designated environment or because of their special architectural or historical merit, construction periods and climatic zones of each Member State, based, as appropriate, on statistical sampling, energy and life-cycle GWP benchmarking and the national database for energy performance certificates pursuant to Article 19, an overview of market barriers and market failures, the share of vulnerable households and an overview of the capacities in the construction, energy efficiency and renewable energy sectors, as well as the availability of one-stop shops established pursuant to Article 15a of this Directive and to Article 21(2a) of Directive (EU) .../... [Recast EED];

Removed:(aa) an overview of implemented and planned policies, including those pursuant to the Pact for Skills set out in the communication of the Commission of 1 July 2020 entitled “European Skills Agenda for sustainable competitiveness, social fairness and resilience”, to increase the availability of qualified professionals in the construction, efficiency, and renewable energy sectors, investments in the development of the required skills, including upskilling or reskilling and targeted training and education programmes, for both public and private stake holders, on the basis of a quantitative and qualitative assessment using key performance indicators as set out in Annex II, to meet the targets, in accordance with this Directive and the resulting market needs for skilled professionals in the construction and renovation sector;

Removed:(b) a roadmap with nationally established targets and measurable progress indicators, and specific timelines for all existing buildings to achieve higher energy performance classes by 2030, 2040 and 2050, with a view to the 2050 climate neutrality goal, in order to ensure a highly energy efficient and decarbonised national building stock and the transformation of existing buildings into zero-emission buildings by 2050;

Removed:(c) an overview of implemented and planned policies and measures including their duration in consistency with the implementation of the roadmap pursuant to point (b) of this subparagraph, including those set out in the integrated national energy and climate plans notified to the Commission pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999, with a particular focus on vulnerable households and people living in social housing;

Removed:(d) a detailed roadmap up to 2050 of the investment needs for the implementation of the building renovation plan, public and private financing sources and measures, and the administrative resources for building renovation, including those set out in national energy and climate plans notified to the Commission pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999;

Removed:(da) a roadmap on the reduction of energy poverty and energy savings achieved among vulnerable households and people living in social housing comprising of nationally established targets and an overview of implemented and planned policies and funding measures supporting the elimination of energy poverty.

Removed:1a. The roadmap referred to in paragraph 1, second subparagraph, point (b), shall include:

Removed:(a) national targets and whole life-cycle emissions for different building typologies to be set following the global stock-taking exercise, for the years 2025, 2030, 2035, 2040, in accordance with the ratchet mechanism set out in the Paris Agreement and a 1,5-degree compliant 2050 whole life-cycle performance roadmap, as well as indicative national targets aiming to achieve the deep renovation of at least 35 million building units by 2030 to support reaching an annual energy renovation rate of 3 % or more for the period till 2050;