Press Release: Andris Piebalgs welcomes the approval of the Energy End-use Efficiency and Energy Services Directive

The Energy End-use Efficiency and Energy Services Directive would require Member States to save at least an additional 1% of their final energy consumption each year for the following 9 years. The amendments adopted on 13 December 2005 by the European Parliament, and already agreed in principle with the Council, were to provide for common definitions and would require new certification schemes for energy service providers, better consumer information and improved metering and billing.

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European Commission: PreLex: COM(2003) 739, Proposal for a Directive ... on energy end-use efficiency and energy services http://ec.europa.eu/prelex/detail_dossier.cfm?CL=en&ReqId=0&DocType=COM&DocYear=2003&DocNum=739

European Commission: Memo: MEMO/05/476, The Energy End-use Efficiency and Energy Services Directive, 13.12.05 http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/05/476&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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