Policy Updates

The PROSAFE Team recently distributed the first newsletter and first ‘all-hands meeting’ minutes of the project EEPLIANT4.

The EU environment ministers approved conclusions on ‘Europe’s Environment 2030 - Building a more circular and resilient Europe’.

The European Commission has published their final communication on the European Affordable Housing Plan.

The European Commission has unveiled a first set of pilot actions to accelerate Europe's transition to a circular economy, with a particular focus on the plastics sector.

The Commission launched a public consultation and call for evidence in view of the revision of the Regulation on the Governance of the Energy Union and Climate Action. The public consultation is open until 12 March 2026.

The first stakeholder meeting on the review of Regulation (EU) 2019/1781 was held on 28 November 2025. It aimed to evaluate the effects of the existing Regulation and to hold an exchange on policy options for amending the Regulation.

The scope of this environmental omnibus focuses on industrial emissions, circularity and environmental assessments. The omnibus proposes to repeal the obligation to report substances of very great concern to the ECHA SCIP database.

The final Delegated Regulation setting out the EU framework for calculating lifecycle GWP of new buildings has now been published. It specifies what HVAC equipment must be included in the calculations as well as acceptable sources of product-level data.

On 17 December, the European Commission published a package of legislative proposals and implementing acts related to CBAM, including the proposal to extend the scope to a large number of downstream products.

The ongoing European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) study on repairability does not cover HVACR products but gives some idea of what the future might hold.

At the Ecodesign Forum of 24 November, the European Commission presented methodologies for setting sustainability requirements under the ESPR. These will complement the Methodology for Ecodesign of Energy-related Products (MEErP).

The European Commission recently opened the 4-week feedback period on the draft Decision to exempt pallet wrappings or straps from the 100% reuse requirements established in Article 29(2) and (3) of Regulation (EU) 2025/40.