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2. The power to adopt delegated acts referred to in Article 31 shall be conferred on the Commission for a period of five years from [date of publication in OJ]. The Commission shall draw up a report in respect of the delegation of power not later than nine months before the end of the five-year period. The delegation of power shall be tacitly extended for periods of an identical duration, unless the European Parliament or the Council opposes such extension not later than three months before the end of each period.

3. The delegation of power referred to in Article 31 may be revoked at any time by the European Parliament or by the Council. A decision to revoke shall put an end to the delegation of the power specified in that decision. It shall take effect the day following the publication of the decision in the Official Journal of the European Union or at a later date specified therein. It shall not affect the validity of any delegated acts already in force.

4. Before adopting a delegated act, the Commission shall consult experts designated by each Member State in accordance with the principles laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement of 13 April 2016 on Better Law-Making.

5. As soon as it adopts a delegated act, the Commission shall notify it simultaneously to the European Parliament and to the Council.

6. A delegated act adopted pursuant to Article 31 shall enter into force only if no objection has been expressed either by the European Parliament or the Council within a period of two months of notification of that act to the European Parliament and the Council or if, before the expiry of that period, the European Parliament and the Council have both informed the Commission that they will not object. That period shall be extended by two months at the initiative of the European Parliament or of the Council.

Review and monitoring of implementation

1. In the context of the State of the Energy Union report, the Commission shall report on the functioning of the carbon market in accordance with Article 35(1) and point (c) of Article 35(2) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999, taking into consideration the effects of the implementation of this Directive.

2. By 31 October 2025 and every four years thereafter, the Commission shall evaluate the existing measures to achieve energy efficiency increase and decarbonisation in heating and cooling. The evaluation shall take into account:

(a) Energy efficiency and greenhouse gases emissions trends in heating and cooling, including in district heating and cooling;

(b) Interlinkages between measures taken;

(c) Changes in energy efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions in the heating and cooling;

(d) Existing and planned energy efficiency policies and measures and greenhouse gas reduction policies and measures at national and EU level, and

(e) Measures Member States provided in their comprehensive assessments pursuant to Article 23(1) of this Directive and notified in accordance with Article 17 (1) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999.

By the dates referred to in the first subparagraph, the Commission shall submit a report to the European Parliament and the Council on that evaluation and propose, if appropriate, measures to ensure the achievement of the Union's climate energy targets.

3. Member States shall submit to the Commission before 30 April each year statistics on national electricity and heat production from high and low efficiency cogeneration, in accordance with the methodology shown in Annex II, in relation to total heat and electricity production. They shall also submit annual statistics on cogeneration heat and electricity capacities and fuels for cogeneration, and on district heating and cooling production and capacities, in relation to total heat and electricity production and capacities. Member States shall submit statistics on primary energy savings achieved by application of cogeneration in accordance with the methodology shown in Annex III.

4. By 1 January 2021, the Commission shall carry out an assessment of the potential for energy efficiency in conversion, transformation, transmission, transportation and storage of energy, and shall submit a report to the European Parliament and to the Council. That report shall, if appropriate, be accompanied by legislative proposals.

5. Subject to any changes to the retail market provisions of Directive 2009/73/EC, by 31 December 2021, the Commission shall carry out an assessment, and submit a report to the European Parliament and to the Council, on the provisions related to metering, billing and consumer information for natural gas, with the aim of aligning them, where appropriate, with the relevant provisions for electricity in Directive (EU) 2019/944, in order to strengthen consumer protection and enable final customers to receive more frequent, clear and up-to-date information about their natural gas consumption and to regulate their energy use. As soon as possible after submission of that report, the Commission shall, where appropriate, adopt legislative proposals.

6. By 31 October 2022, the Commission shall assess whether the Union has achieved its 2020 headline target on energy efficiency.

7. By 28 February 2027, and every five years thereafter, the Commission shall evaluate this Directive and submit a report to the European Parliament and to the Council.

That evaluation shall include:

(a) an assessment of the general effectiveness of this Directive and the need to adjust further the Union's energy efficiency policy in accordance with the objectives of the 2015 Paris Agreement and in the light of economic and innovation developments;

(aa) a comprehensive assessment of the aggregated macroeconomic impact of this Directive, with an emphasis on the effects on the Union’s energy security, energy prices, minimising energy poverty, economic growth, competitiveness, job creation, mobility cost and household purchasing power;

(b) the Union's 2030 headline targets on energy efficiency set out in Article 4(1) with a view to revising those that targets upwards in the event of substantial cost reductions resulting from economic or technological developments, or where needed to meet the Union's decarbonisation targets for 2040 or 2050, or its international commitments for decarbonisation;

(c) if Member States shall continue to achieve new annual savings in accordance with point (c) of the first subparagraph of Article 8 for the ten-year periods after 2030;

(d) if Member States shall continue to ensure that at least 3% of the total floor area of heated and/or cooled buildings owned by public bodies is renovated each year in accordance with paragraph 1 of Article 6 with a view to revising the renovation rate in that Article;

(e) if Member States shall continue to achieve a share of energy savings among vulnerable customers, people affected by energy poverty, and, where applicable, people living in social housing, in accordance with paragraph 3 of Article 8 for the ten-year periods after 2030;

(f) if Member States shall continue to achieve a reduction of final energy consumption in accordance with Article 5(1).

That report shall be accompanied by a comprehensive assessment of whether there is a need to revise this Directive in the interest of regulatory simplification and, where appropriate, by proposals for further measures. The Commission shall continuously adapt to administrative procedural best practices and shall take all measures to simplify the implementation of this Directive, keeping administrative burdens to a minimum.

Transposition

1. Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Articles […] and Annexes […] [articles and annexes which have been amended in substance by comparison with the repealed Directive] by […].

They shall immediately communicate the text of those measures to the Commission.

When Member States adopt those measures, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or be accompanied by such a reference on the occasion of their official publication. They shall also include a statement that references in existing laws, regulations and administrative provisions to the Directive repealed by this Directive shall be construed as references to this Directive. Member States shall determine how such reference is to be made and how that statement is to be formulated.

2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.

Addressees

This Directive is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels,

For the European Parliament For the Council

The President The President

NATIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE UNION’S ENERGY EFFCIENCY TARGETS IN 2030 IN FINAL AND/OR PRIMARY ENERGY CONSUMPTION

1. The level of national contributions is calculated based on the ▌formula:

Where CEU is a correction factor set by the Commission after Member States have reported the target, Target is the level of national-specific ambition and FECB2030 PECB2030 is the 2020 Reference Scenario used as a baseline for 2030.

2. The following ▌formula represents the objective criteria reflecting the factors listed in points (d) (i) to (iv) of Article 4(2), each used for defining the level of national-specific ambition in % (Target) and having the same weight in the formula (0,25):

a) a flat rate contribution ("Fflat");

b) GDP-per-capita dependent contribution ("Fwealth");