The Concerted Action on the EED (CA EED) supports EU Member States and Norway in the transposition and implementation of the EU Energy Efficiency Directive (EED). The CA EED is financed under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. It builds upon the work of earlier Concerted Actions (CA ESD/EED), which started in 2008.
The Concerted Action was launched in all EU Member States and Norway in order to provide a trusted forum where Member State representatives entrusted with the implementation of the EED can learn from each other, avoid pitfalls and build on the successful approaches of others when implementing the Energy Efficiency Directive into their national legislation. Within the Concerted Action, representatives from national authorities and bodies entrusted with implementing the Energy Efficiency Directive have collaboratively built a strong European network and gathered a wealth of information and lessons learned. The Concerted Action brings together this unique group of experts and policy makers from all Member States and Norway, and enables a singular opportunity for them to communicate in an informal way on a technical level with relevant experts.
• To enhance and structure the sharing of information and experiences from national implementation whilst promoting good practice concepts in activities to improve and strengthen Member States implementation of the EED.
• To encourage dialogue between Member States on common approaches for the effective implementation of particular parts of the EED and synergies with the Renewable Energy Directive and the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive.
• To complement the work of the EED Committee assisting the European Commission.
The work of the CA EED is structured around six Domains which reflect the EED.
Domain 1 focuses on the energy efficiency targets and the energy savings obligations, the schemes and measures to fulfil these and the methodologies to calculate the savings.
Domain 2 deals with the public sector: the target, public buildings and public procurement.
Domain 3 covers energy management systems and audits, energy services, energy performance contracting requirements and qualification, accreditation and certification schemes.
Domain 4 deals with energy efficiency first, data centres, metering and billing and efficiency in transmission, transformation and distribution.
Domain 5 focuses on heating and cooling.
Domain 6 deals with energy poverty, consumer information and financing.
The work carried out within the CA EED is designed to have a flexible structure in order to meet the needs of EED implementing organisations through several different activities.
The main CA EED activity is the organisation of a number of two-day Plenary Meetings. Each Plenary Meeting involves a number of parallel sessions focusing on one of the domains or on a topic which spans different domains. For each topic, a working group composed of up to 3 participants from different Member States is established. This Working Group is then responsible for collecting information, preparing discussions on the topic and summarising key findings after the Plenary Meeting.
Following the meeting a number of outputs are made available including proceedings, presentations and good practice factsheets.
In addition to Plenary Meetings, the CA EED facilitates webinars on specific EED topics, convenes in-depth workshops, provides a platform for bilateral exchange, organises study visits, and continually searches for new ways to support its participating partners.
There are two sister Concerted Actions which support the transposition and implementation of the Renewable Energy Sources Directive and Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, namely the CA RES and CA EPBD respectively.
The CA EED also cooperates with the Energy Community, the European Defence Agency and the Ukraine Task Force on Energy Efficiency.
