5.4.2023
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
C 125/303 Wednesday 14 September 2022
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To set the rate of renovations, Member States need to have an overview of the buildings that do not reach the NZEB level.
Therefore, Member States should publish and keep updated an inventory of public buildings including social housing as part of an overall database of energy performance certificates.
That inventory should enable also private actors including energy service companies (ESCOs) to propose renovation solutions and they can be aggregated by the Union Building Stock Observatory.
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In 2020, more than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas.
That figure is expected to reach 68 % by 2050 (28).
In addition, half of the urban infrastructures by 2050 are still to be built (29).
Cities and metropolitan areas are centres of economic activity, knowledge generation, innovation and new technologies.
Cities influence the quality of life of the citizens who live or work in them.
Member States should support municipalities technically and financially.
A number of municipalities and other public bodies in the Member States have already put into place integrated approaches to energy saving and energy supply and sustainable mobility, for example via sustainable energy action plans or sustainable urban mobility plans, such as those developed under the Covenant of Mayors initiative, and integrated urban approaches which go beyond individual interventions in buildings or transport modes.
Further efforts are needed in the area of improving the energy efficiency of urban mobility, for both passenger and freight transport, as it uses around 40 % of all road transport energy. Regulation ...
[revised TEN-T Regulation — 2021/0420(COD)] should contribute significantly to addressing the energy efficiency of urban transport with a consistent, integrated and multimodal approach via the requirement to adopt sustainable urban mobility plans (SUMP) as defined in that Regulation.
Moreover, in order to reach the goals of this Directive, Member States should strongly encourage as many local authorities as possible to adopt SUMPs in order to contribute to the reduction of energy consumption and avoid unnecessary transport where possible, in line with the energy efficiency first principle.
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With regard to the purchase of certain products and services and the purchase and rent of buildings, contracting authorities and contracting entities which conclude public works, supply or service contracts should lead by example and make energy-efficient purchasing decisions and apply the energy efficiency first principle, including for those public contracts and concessions for which no specific requirements are provided for in Annex IV.
This should apply to the administrative departments whose competence extends over the whole territory of a Member State.
When in a given Member State and for a given competence no such relevant administrative department exists that covers the whole territory, the obligation should apply to those administrative departments whose competences cover collectively the whole territory.
The provisions of the Union’s public procurement directives should not however be affected.
Member States should remove barriers to joint procurement within a Member State or across borders if this can reduce the costs, enhance the benefits of the internal market by creating business opportunities for suppliers and energy service providers.
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All public entities investing public resources through procurement should lead by example when awarding contracts and concessions by choosing products, services works and buildings with the highest energy efficiency performance, also in relation to those procurements that are not subject to specific requirements under Directive 2009/30/EC.
In that context, all award procedures for public contracts and concessions with the value above the thresholds set out in Articles 6 and 7 of Directive 2014/23/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (30), Article 2(1) of Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (31), and Articles 3 and 4 of Directive 2014/25/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, need to take into account the energy efficiency performance of the products, buildings and services set by Union or national law, by considering as priority the energy efficiency first principle in their procurement procedures.
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https://www.unfpa.org/world-population-trends https://www.un.org/en/ecosoc/integration/pdf/fact_sheet.pdf Directive 2014/23/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on the award of concession contracts (OJ L 94, 28.3.2014, p. 1).
Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC (OJ L 94, 28.3.2014, p. 65).
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