FIEC Newsletter – 11 Ιουνίου 2019

Following the EU elections and in anticipation of the new Commission, FIEC’s annual conference for members focused on its messages and requests for the EU term 2019-2024 to the incoming MEPs, the Commission officials and the new Commissioners.

The construction industry impacts every single citizen in the EU: we spend more than 70% of our time in buildings and we rely on infrastructure to get from home to work.

We therefore need a legislative and political framework that facilitates the long-term development and sustainability of our industry.

In order to achieve this FIEC wants to see a Vice President in the new Commission with a specific mandate for ensuring efficient and co-ordinated collaboration of all departments involved in any policy development that affects our industry.

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FIEC President Kjetil Tonning will be a speaker at the EU Conference “Policy Meets Property: A Combined Perspective on Energy Efficiency in Buildings”.  The conference will take place on 19 June, during European Union Sustainable Energy Week 2019.

The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) adopted an own-initiative opinion on “Working with asbestos in energy renovation”.In this report the EESC welcomes the ambitious revision of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), which took place in 2018, but also recognises the considerable danger posed by asbestos, which is the number one source of occupational cancer in Europe today. To achieve the ambitious goals of renewing the European building stock to create healthy and energy efficient homes and work places, the EESC deems it necessary to create synergies with the removal of harmful substances during energy renovation so that this burden is not left to the next generation

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