Together with 9 fellow associations, EPEE signed an open letter asking Commission Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans, Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson, Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevicius and Commissioner for the Internal MarketThierry Breton for an open dialogue on constructively addressing sustainable products policy, in the context of the recently published open public consultation on the Sustainable Products Initiative (SPI).
“Our associations recognise the imperative of complementing the decarbonisation objectives under the European Green Deal (EGD) with efforts to improve the environmental sustainability of products. The Commission has indicated that it has been politically decided that the scope of the Ecodesign Directive is to be widened to include non-ErP, in addition to the ErP currently within the scope of the Directive. Should the Ecodesign methodology be applied to non-ErP products, we believe that the legislation should be sensitive to the differences between ErP and non-ErP products.”