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Indoor Environmental Quality

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Indoor Environmental Quality

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The conditions inside buildings and structures – especially humidity, thermal conditions, and the presence of chemical, biological and physical contaminants in indoor air – have a significant effect on the health and comfort of occupants. Market failures such as information deficits, split incentives, and externalities, are preventing many buildings in the EU from meeting generally accepted benchmarks of Indoor Environmental Quality. Eurovent advocates for regulatory solutions that can overcome these market failures to ensure that everyone can live, learn, and work in healthy and comfortable indoor spaces.

12 March 2024
The European Parliament approved the EPBD at its plenary sitting in Strasbourg on 12 March, with 370 votes in favour, 199 against, and 46 abstentions. The last hurdle for the EPBD recast is approval by the Member States in April....
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14 December 2023
On 7 December, European Parliament and European Council negotiators reached a political agreement on the recast Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD).
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21 November 2023
After the trilogues of 6 June and 31 August, the latest negotiations on the recast Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) on 12 October resulted in partial agreement. The next round is expected to conclude the file.
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01 September 2023
Technical trilogues on the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) were held in July between Parliament, Council and Commission. The focus was on the scope of the Directive, one of the key questions being whether the EPBD should deal with important co-benefits su...
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15 February 2023
After significant delays, the ITRE committee has finally adopted its report on the EPBD recast on 9 February 2023.
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05 December 2022
The Parliament’s ENVI committee published its final opinion on the EPBD on 28 November 2022.
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29 November 2022
On 26 October 2022, the European Commission adopted a proposal for a recast Ambient Air Quality Directive. The Impact Assessment contains some hopeful notes for a future policy response from the EU on Indoor Air Quality as well.On 26 October 2022, the European Commission ad...
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24 November 2022
Last month, the Council of the EU reached an agreement on the proposal to revise the EPBD. The aims are to ensure that all new buildings are zero-emission by 2030 and that the existing buildings become zero-emission by 2050.
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