Deadline: 23-Sep-2025
The European Commission (EC) is accepting applications for the Effective Implementation of Key Legislation in the field of Sustainable Energy Program.
Objectives
- Under the European Green Deal and the REPower EU Plan, the EU has put in place a whole set of new pieces of climate and energy legislation, including the revised Energy Efficiency Directive, Renewable Energy Directive and Energy Performance of Buildings Directive. The revisions make the policy framework for sustainable energy more stringent and ambitious. While the legislative framework offers a good amount of flexibility to Member States to shape the policy measures according to their needs and framework conditions, accurate design, monitoring, projecting and evaluation are essential elements of implementation.
- This topic aims to support the implementation of the main pieces of legislation in the field of sustainable energy, notably of the Energy Efficiency Directive (Scope A), the Renewable Energy Directive (Scope B) and the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (Scope C).
Scope
- Actions under this topic are expected to:
- Promote and enable exchange of insights and sharing of best practices within/ across Member States.
- Provide support, technical advice and tools for contextualisation and specification of requirements, in general and according to the national and regional context.
- Scope, assess and model the impact of implementation options to comply with EU legislative requirements, thereby contributing to the design of more effective policies.
- Support the monitoring and evaluation of policy implementation.
- Develop and apply methodologies to more accurately measure, calculate and account for contributions made under the specific policy measures and programmes.
- Actions under call 2025 are expected to support the implementation of specific provisions related to the streamlining of permit-granting process, renewables acceleration areas, information and training of installers and designers of selected renewable energy technologies.
- Scope B: Support for the implementation of the Renewable Energy Directive
- Lengthy administrative permit-granting procedures are one of the key barriers to investment in renewable energy projects and their related infrastructure. Directive (EU) 2018/2001 addressed this barrier by introducing rules on the organisation and maximum duration of the administrative part of the permit-granting procedure for renewable energy projects. To support the faster deployment of renewable energy projects, Directive (EU) 2023/2413 has introduced a requirement for Member States to carry out a coordinated mapping for the deployment of renewable energy and related infrastructure in their territory.
Funding Information
- The estimated available call budget is EUR 91 400 000.
- LIFE-2025-CET-POLICY EUR 4 000 000
Expected Impact
- Proposals should result in:
- Increased understanding and knowledge in public administrations in charge of implementing European energy legislation; improved collaboration of implementing bodies within and across Member States.
- More effective implementation of provisions, including better planning, design and evaluation of policy measures; more consistent implementation of legal provisions across energy legislation, energy policy and energy sectors.
- Use of appropriate tools and methods that facilitate availability and access to data; improved quality of data and better monitoring; use of more accurate calculation and Measurement & Verification (M&V) methodologies; improved quality of reporting; improved understanding and measurement of the impacts.
- Improved understanding of potentials and market barriers.
- The indicators for this topic include:
- Number of public authorities with increased capacity and better access to information and data.
- Number of public authorities and stakeholders using tools, resources, information and data established and provided by the activity.
- Number of policy measures, implementing acts and related documents improved by the activity.
- Number of monitoring and reporting tools and documents improved by the activity.
- Number of references in policy-relevant documents, such as impact assessments, guidance documents etc.
Eligibility Criteria
- In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies)
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
- non-EU countries:
- listed EEA countries and countries associated to the LIFE Programme
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
- the coordinator must be established in an eligible country.
- Proposals covering upskilling and reskilling activities such as the development/update of qualification and training schemes are not considered eligible within this topic.
- Proposals must be submitted by at least 3 applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities) from 3 different eligible countries.
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