Projects on Legislative and Policy Priorities in the field of Clean Energy Transition

Deadline: 23-Sep-2025

The European Commission is inviting applications for its Projects on Legislative and Policy Priorities in the field of Clean Energy Transition to improve understanding of the actual impacts of EU Ecodesign and Energy Labelling Regulations and facilitate the implementation of related test methods that reflect better product use in real life, in terms of energy consumption and, when appropriate, pollutant emissions.

In addition, actual energy consumption data would inform on the one hand future reviews of ecodesign and energy labelling rules, while providing added value for preparatory studies. On the other hand, it would also contribute to improving the ecodesign impact accounting model utilised for reporting the impacts of these rules.

Scope

• Proposals should set-up and implement in-situ measurement campaigns to capture the actual energy consumption, or energy efficiency where relevant, in EU households and to better understand the determinants of energy use for the selected products. Data collected should be statistically analysed and policy recommendations formulated on the related EU ecodesign and energy labelling rules, calculation methods and standards. Proposals should build on relevant studies, including on the recommendations from the JRC technical report.
• The following aspects should be taken into account for the measurement campaigns:
  • Product selection: while multi-product monitoring would be preferable, an appropriate balance should be sought between the number of samples, geographical focus and the range of products selected.
  • Sample and geographic focus: a representative sample and a good geographical spread among EU Member States should be ensured; depending on the products selected, different climatic zones, socio-economic, cultural, and other aspects should be considered.
  • Duration: 36 months (indicatively), based on relevant criteria, including the intrusive character of testing from the household’s perspective, the effect of seasonality on products considered, cost/benefit, the possibility to rotate monitoring among households etc.
  • Appropriate determinants: influencing energy use of the selected products should be investigated (e.g. thermostat settings of a refrigerator, functions aiming to optimise consumption) and other relevant data should be collected, such as the model identifier, energy class and corresponding product information (e.g. information sheet, technical documentation), as applicable.

Funding Information

• The Commission considers that proposals requesting an EU contribution of up to EUR 2 million would allow the specific objectives to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts.

Expected Outcomes

• Proposals submitted under this topic should present the concrete results which will be delivered by the activities, and demonstrate how these results will contribute to the topic-specific objectives and impacts. This should include a detailed analysis of the starting point and a set of well-substantiated assumptions, and establish clear causality links between the results and the expected impacts.
• Proposals should quantify their results and impacts using the indicators provided for the topic when they are relevant for the proposed activities. They should also propose indicators which are specific to the proposed activities. Proposals are not expected to address all the listed impacts and indicators.
• The indicators for this topic include:
  • Total amount of energy represented by the monitored product categories and the corresponding CO2-eq amount.
  • Improved information on actual typical energy consumption available for a range of selected EU household products (e.g. including product type, geographical spread, conditions of use, where relevant).
  • Identifying options for improvements (e.g. requirements, measurement and calculation methods) in ecodesign and energy labelling legislation and related harmonised standards.

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
  • the coordinator must be established in an eligible country.

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