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Ecodesign/Energy Labelling Working Plan 2020-2024 (GEN - 1103.00)

Intention is to have this available by September/October 2020

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The Commission has signed the contract with a consortium composed of Viegand Maagøe, VHK and Öko Recherche. Even though the contract runs for nine months until November, it is the intention to have it available preferably by September. In the coming days, a list of stakeholders that would be consulted will be established by the Commission and consortium.

Review Ventilation Units Regulations (GEN - 1102.00)

Roadmap/Inception Impact Assessment for public consultation until 29 April 2020

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The Commission has published these 4-page roadmaps so that the public at large and stakeholders can provide input. This input will be taken into account for development and fine tuning of the revised Ecodesign Ventilation Units and Energy Labelling Ventilation Units Regulations.

Voluntary Green Public Procurement (GPP) criteria for data centres and food & catering (GEN - 1101.00)

Commission staff documents published

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The staff document on data servers covers the routes to procure data centres and includes a set of environmental criteria covering the whole life cycle from design and use, to end-of-life. The document on food and catering is of a more general nature. This is accompanied by a guide to calculate the Life Cycle Cost of vending appliances, including refrigerated vending machines.

Development of HFC prices (GEN - 1100.00)

Update on F-Gas price evolution monitoring by Oeko-Recherche

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On behalf of the European Commission (DG CLIMA), Oeko-Recherche is working on a series of analysis evaluating the implementation of the F-Gas Regulation (EU) No 517/2014 since 2015. This includes, among others, monitoring of the refrigerant prices. The Q4/2019 report has been recently shared with Eurovent.

4th F-Gas Consultation Forum postponed (GEN - 1099.00)

Papers on availability of HFCs and alternatives for split air conditioning available for comments

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During the fourth F-Gas Consultation Forum, scheduled for 25 March 2020, the consultants appointed by the Commission were to make presentations and have a discussion with the stakeholders. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, stakeholders are now requested to comment on the available presentations by 20 April.