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On Friday 20 January 2022, Euractiv leaked the draft proposal of the European Commission on the ‘Green Claims’ initiative, which was already announced in the new Circular Economy Action Plan and saw several delays before publishing.

The Eurovent Product Group ‘Air Filters’ (PG-FIL) has released its new Recommendations 4/24 Energy consumption evaluation of air filters for general ventilation purposes and 4/25 Energy consumption evaluation of air filters for general ventilation in NRVUs in the context of Ecodesign.

In cooperation with Orgalim, the Eurovent Team provides you with an overview on all European legislative developments of relevance to the HVACR sector. The Bulletin provides a compendium allowing the industry to assess the status quo.

The December edition of the Smart Readiness Indicator (SRI) newsletter - including a new SRI factsheet on Heating Technical domain- has been released.

Based on the current planning, the indicative 2023 Ecodesign and Energy Labelling working programme (including the planned adoption dates of all ongoing Ecodesign measures and several new product groups) has been reported.

The European Council recently published an Information from the Presidency on the state of play of two current legislative proposals: Regulation on Fluorinated Greenhouse gases, and Regulation on substances that deplete the ozone layer.

We wish our members, partners and friends peaceful and happy holidays, and a successful New Year. May it bring joy, growth and flourishing business opportunities to all. For Eurovent and its units Eurovent Middle East, Eurovent Certita Certification and Eurovent Market Intelligence, 2022 was marked with many important developments, of which we’d like to share a few.

On the night of Saturday, 17 December 2022, MEPs and EU governments agreed to reform the Emissions Trading System (ETS) to further reduce industrial emissions and invest more in climate friendly technologies.

On Monday, 28 November 2022, the European Commission held the Ecodesign and Energy Labelling Consultation Forum meeting on the review of the regulations on professional refrigeration products (Regulations EU 2015/1095 and 2015/1094).

On behalf of the European Commission (DG CLIMA), Öko-Recherche is working on a series of analysis evaluating the implementation of the F-Gas Regulation (EU) No 517/2014 since 2015. The Q3/2022 report has been recently shared with Eurovent.