Meetings

Meetings

During the study, stakeholders are invited participate in three meetings covering respectively the initial consideration of evidence, the First Findings and the draft final report. More information on these meetings including the presentations of the evaluation team and stakeholders and detailed notes are available in the sections below.  

The third stakeholders meeting took place on 18th January 2012 with the participation of over 85 stakeholders representing Member States' authorities, industry, environmental and consumer groups and Ecodesign experts. It followed the publication of the Draft Final Report on December 16th.

The objective of the meeting was for the Evaluation team to present findings, conclusions and recommendations in relation to the evaluation of the Ecodesign Directive and to present its analysis and conclusions on the overall issue of appropriateness and feasibility and the priority list of products with regard to extension of the Directive. In the same time Stakeholders had the opportunity to comment on the conclusions and make suggestions to be considered for the final report and on the analysis presented and also validate or propose changes to conclusions.

Additional written feedback from stakeholders on any aspect of the evaluation to be submitted by 27 January 2012.

The meeting was organised along three sessions initiated by a presentation of the findings of the study and followed by short presentations by stakeholders referring to their own experience from the implementation of the Directive so far:  

• Introduction;
• Session 1 - Relevance and effectiveness of the Ecodesign Directive;
• Session 2 - Efficiency of Ecodesign Directive implementation;     
• Session 3 - Appropriateness and Feasibility of extending the Ecodesign Directive to cover non-energy related products and Means of transport;
• Concluding session.

Notes of the meeting are available here.

Final report to be submitted to the Commission by 20 February 2012. The final report will be made available once approved by the Commission services.

The second stakeholders meeting took place on 5th October with the participation of over 80 stakeholders representing Member States' authorities, industry, environmental and consumer groups and Ecodesign experts. It followed the publication of the First Findings and Recommendations Report on September 19th. The objective at this stage is to receive feedback from stakeholders in relation to the various issues examined in the report.

The meeting was organised along three sessions initiated by a presentation of the findings of the study and followed by short presentations by stakeholders referring to their own experience from the implementation of the Directive so far:  

• Introduction to the objectives of the evaluation study

• Session 1: Effectiveness of the Ecodesign Directive (impacts on environment, market and industry)

Presentation by Oxford Research and CSES of findings based on evidence collected against baseline – Reference to main conclusions and remaining gaps in terms of information

Darcy Nicolle; United Technologies Corporation; EPEE: Lessons learned of the Ecodesign Directive of the heating, cooling, air-conditioning and refrigeration industry. 

Carina Wiik; the Federation of Finnish Technology Industries: Implementation Experiences of the EcoDesign Directive.

• Session 2: Efficiency of Ecodesign Directive implementation procedures   

Presentation by CSES of findings

Paul Waide; on behalf of CLASP: Monitoring, Verification and Enforcement Capabilities and Practices for the Implementation of the Ecodesign and Energy Labelling Directives in EU/EEA Member States. 

Gorane Ibarra; Ihobe: ErP Implementation and improvements in Spain and Basque Country.  

• Session 3 : Extension of the Directive

Presentation by CSES of cases studies, emerging findings and work remaining  

Göran Gabling; Swedish Chemicals Agency: Information requirements on hazardous substances in products. / Evidence document

Alexander Michael Warhurst; Friends of the Earth Europe; Land Footprint, Water Footprint, Carbon Footprint – understanding of resource use of countries    and companies; Indicators to be used in EU product policy – creation of mechanisms working through supply chains 

A revised LIST OF QUESTIONS for stakeholders to provide additional feedback is available here . 

The Notes from the meeting are available here.  

The meeting was organised along  four sessions that focused on the key issues that will be examined during the evaluation. Each session was based on a presentation by CSES and its partners, Oxford Research, followed by presentations by stakeholders presenting their own experience from the implementation of the Directive so far :

• Introduction session

CSES - Overall methodology amd objectives of the study

• Session 1: Effectiveness of the Ecodesign Directive

Oxford Research : Initial findings based on evidence collected against baseline – Reference to main gaps in terms of information and expected contribution of stakeholders

Orgalime (Sigrid Lihner) : Comments on effectiveness and lessons learned

CECED (Matteo Rambaldi) : Exploiting the potential of the current Ecodesign Directive

• Session 2: Efficiency of Ecodesign Directive implementation procedures - Experience from implementation procedures to date

CSES : Initial findings from desk research and survey feedback - points/questions for discussion

ECOS (Edouard Toulouse) : Experience from implementation measures to date – Proposals for optimising Ecodesign Directive implementation

Teknikforetagen (Maria Sandqvist) : Transparency in the preparatory studies, specifications of product categories and MEEuP/MEErP methodology

• Session 3: Market surveillance and enforcement of the Ecodesign Directive at the Member State level

CSES : Initial findings from desk research and survey feedback - points/questions for discussion

CECED (Matteo Rambaldi) : Clear requirements and the enforcement of the Ecodesing Directive - experience form the EU Energy Label

• Session 4: Extension of the Directive

CSES : Methodology and initial work completed

JRC-IES (Marc-Andree Wolf) : Extendability of the Ecodesign Directive to non energy-related products

ACEA (Wulf-Peter Schmidt) : Experience in the field and possibilities of the extension of the Ecodesign Directive for automotive industry.

(Stephane Arditi) : Towards Ecodesign Directive scope extension: conditions and regulatory framework

The summary notes of the meeting are also available.

Please contact Natalia Cecot  if you have any problems with access to any of the  files.

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