Changes from report parliamentary committee draft to plenary report

Added(d) effective indoor environmental quality monitoring system, to ensure occupants’ health and safety.

Added4d. In addition to requirements set out in paragraph 4c, residential buildings with a useful floor area larger than 1 000 sqm shall also be equipped with functionality allowing both of the following:

Added(a) benchmarking of the building’s energy efficiency, detecting of losses in efficiency of technical building systems, and informing the person responsible for the facilities or technical building management about opportunities for energy efficiency improvement;

Added(b) communication with connected technical building systems and other appliances inside the building, and being interoperable with technical building systems across different types of proprietary technologies, devices and manufacturers.

Added4e. Member States shall require that, where technically and economically feasible, non-residential buildings are equipped with automatic lighting controls. The automatic lighting controls shall be capable of all of the following:

Added(a) zoned occupancy control for indoor lighting with automatic detection;

Added(b) zoned automatic dimming of the lighting power based on daylight levels in daylight;

Added(c) enabling continuous monitoring, logging and fault detection;

Added(d) allowing end-user control;

Added(e) allowing communication with relevant connected technical building systems inside the building

AddedIndoor environmental quality

Added1. Member States shall set requirements for the implementation of adequate indoor environmental quality standards in buildings in order to maintain a healthy indoor climate.

Added2. By... [ 24 months after the date of entry into force], Member States shall set requirements according to measurable indicators based on to those of the LEVELs framework.

AddedIndoor environmental quality indicators shall be measured inside the building and shall at least include:

Added(a) the level of carbon dioxide;

Added(b) the temperature and thermal comfort;

Added(c) the relative humidity;

Added(d) the level of daylight illumination or adequate daylight levels;

Added(e) the ventilation rate in air changes per hour;

Added(f) acoustic indoor comfort, such as the control of the reverberation time and background noise level and speech intelligibility.

AddedParticulate matter of emissions of indoor sources and target pollutant limits from indoor sources, on volatile organic compounds, classified as carcinogenic, mutagenic, or toxic for reproduction according to Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008, including formaldehyde, shall be reported on the basis of the available data at product level, or direct measurement where available, of the relevant sources in relation to the indoor environment of the building.

Added3. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 29 to supplement this Directive by establishing a methodology framework for calculating the indoor environmental quality standards.

Added4. Member States shall ensure that new buildings and buildings undergoing major renovation comply with adequate indoor environmental quality standards.

AddedInfrastructure for sustainable mobility

Added1. With regard to new non-residential buildings and non-residential buildings undergoing major renovation where that renovation includes the car park or the electrical installations of the building, with more than five parking spaces, where the car park is located inside the building, is physically adjacent to, or has a clear link with, the building,Member States shall ensure the installation of:

Added(a) ▌at least one recharging point for every five parking spaces;

Added(b) ▌pre-cabling for every parking space to enable the installation, at a later stage of recharging points for electric vehicles, electrically power-assisted cycles and other L-category vehicles types; and

Added(c) ▌ bicycle parking spaces representing at least 15% of total user capacity of non-residential buildings, taking into account the space required also for bicycles with larger dimensions than standard bicycles.

AddedMember States shall ensure that the pre-cabling is dimensioned so as to enable the simultaneous and efficient use of the expected number of recharging points and support, where appropriate, the installation of a load or charging management system, to the extent that this is technically and economically feasible and justifiable.

AddedBy way of derogation from the first subparagraph, point (a), for new office buildings and office buildings undergoing major renovation, with more than five parking spaces, Member States shall ensure the installation of at least one recharging point for every two parking spaces.

Added2. With regard to all non-residential buildings with more than twenty and, if technically and economically feasible, ten parking spaces, Member States shall ensure the installation, by 1 January 2027, of at least one recharging point for every ten parking spaces, and ▌bicycle parking space, representing at least 15% of the total user capacity of the building and with space required also for bicycles with larger dimensions than standard bicycles. In the case of buildings owned or occupied by public authorities, Member States shall ensure pre-cabling for at least one in two parking spaces by 1 January 2033.

Added3. Member States may, subject to an assessment by local authorities, taking into account local characteristics, including demographical, geographical and climate conditions, adjust requirements for the number of bicycle parking spaces in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 2 for specific categories of non-residential buildings ▌.

Added4. With regard to new residential buildings and residential buildings undergoing major renovation, where that renovation includes the car park or the electrical installations of the building, with more than three parking spaces, where the car park is located inside the building or the car park is physically adjacent to, or has a clear link with the building Member States shall ensure the installation:

Added(a) in new residential buildings, of pre-cabling for every parking space and, in residential buildings undergoing major renovation, of pre-cabling or, where technically and economically unfeasible, ducting for every parking space to enable the installation, at a later stage, of recharging points for electric vehicles and electrically power-assisted cycles and other L-category vehicle types; Member States shall ensure that the pre-cabling is dimensioned to enable the simultaneous use of recharging points on all parking spaces;

Added(aa) of at least one recharging point;

Added(b) at least two bicycle parking spaces for every dwelling in new residential buildings;

Added(ba) at least two bicycle parking spaces for every dwelling in residential buildings undergoing major renovation, where technologically and economically feasible;

Added(bb) in new residential buildings with at least three dwellings and where there are no car parking spaces, at least two bicycle parking spaces for every dwelling, where technologically and economically feasible.

AddedBy way of derogation from the first subparagraph, Member States may, subject to an assessment by local authorities and taking into account local characteristics, including demographical, geographical and climate conditions, adjust requirements for the number of bicycle parking spaces.

Added5. Member States may decide not to apply paragraphs 1, 2 and 4 to specific categories of buildings where the pre-cabling required would rely on micro isolated systems or the buildings are situated in the outermost regions within the meaning of Article 349 TFEU, if this would lead to substantial problems for the operation of the local energy system and would endanger the stability of the local grid.

Added5a. Following a reasoned request by a Member State, the Commission may decide to allow that Member State to adjust the requirements in paragraphs 1 and 2 for specific categories of buildings where:

Added(a) the building is owned and occupied by a microenterprise or a small or medium-sized enterprise, as defined in Article 2 of the Annex to Commission Recommendation 2003/31/EC; or

Added(b) the buildings only have temporary use in accordance with Article 9.

Added6. Member States shall ensure that the recharging points referred to in paragraphs 1, 2 and 4 of this Article are capable of smart charging and, where appropriate bidirectional charging, and that they are operated based on non-proprietary and non-discriminatory communication protocols and standards, in an interoperable manner, and in compliance with any legal standards and protocols in the delegated acts adopted pursuant to Article 19(6) and Article 19(7) of Regulation (EU) …/… [AFIR].

Added7. Member States shall ensure that operators of non-publicly accessible recharging points operate them in accordance with Article 5(4) of Regulation (EU).../….[AFIR], where applicable.

Added8. Member States shall provide for measures in order to encourage, simplify, harmonise and accelerate the procedure for the installation of recharging points in new and existing residential and non-residential buildings, especially of co-owners associations, and remove regulatory barriers, including permitting and approval procedures from public authorities or grid operators, without prejudice to the property and tenancy law of the Member States and to allow the ‘right to plug’ for everyone in the Union. Member States shall remove barriers to the installation of recharging points in residential buildings with parking spaces, in particular the need to obtain consent from the landlord or co-owners for a private recharging point for own use. A request by tenants or co-owners to install charging equipment in a parking space may be refused if there are serious and legitimate grounds for such a refusal.

AddedMember States shall ensure that the time between the application for a recharging point by a tenant or an owner in a building and its installation is reasonable and in any event does not exceed six months.

AddedBy 1 January 2025, the Commission shall publish guidelines specifying the standards and protocol to be recommended to national and local public authorities for fire safety in roofed car parks.

AddedMember States shall ensure the availability of technical assistance for building owners and tenants wishing to install recharging points and bicycle parking spaces.

AddedWith regard to existing residential buildings with more than three parking spaces, Member States shall introduce measures to ensure the installation of pre-cabling for parking spaces, in proportion to with the number of battery electric light-duty vehicles registered in their territory.

Added8a. For owners and tenants of buildings, who do not have the possibility to install a recharging point at their place of residence, Member States shall introduce measures to allow them to request the installation of a publicly available recharging point near their place of residence, in accordance with the objectives of Regulation (EU) …/… [AFIR]. Member States shall introduce measures to ensure that the number of publicly accessible recharging points installed corresponds to the number of requests received within the same areas.

Added9. Member States shall ensure the coherence of policies for buildings, active and green mobility, climate, energy, biodiversity and urban planning.

AddedTo ensure an effective combination on private e-mobility, active mobility and public transport, Member States shall support local authorities in developing and implementing sustainable urban mobility plans with a particular focus on the integration of housing policies with sustainable mobility and urban planning.

AddedSmart readiness of buildings

Added1. The Commission shall adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 29 concerning an optional common Union scheme for rating the smart readiness of buildings. The rating shall be based on an assessment of the capabilities of a building or building unit to adapt its operation to the needs of the occupant, in particular concerning indoor environmental quality and the grid and to improve its energy efficiency and overall performance.

AddedIn accordance with Annex IV, the optional common Union scheme for rating the smart readiness of buildings shall lay down:

Added(a) the definition of the smart readiness indicator; ▌

Added(b) a methodology by which it is to be calculated.

Added2. By 31 December 2024, the Commission shall ▌ adopt a delegated act in accordance with Article 29, amending this Directive by requiring the mandatory application, by the same date, of the common Union scheme for rating the smart readiness of buildings, in accordance with Annex IV, to non-residential buildings with an effective rated output for heating systems, air-conditioning systems, and systems for combined space heating, air-conditioning and ventilation of over 290 kW. From 1 January 2030, the common Union scheme shall apply to non-residential buildings with an effective rated output of 70 kW.

Added3. The Commission shall, after having consulted the relevant stakeholders, adopt an implementing act detailing the technical modalities for the effective implementation of the scheme referred to in paragraph 1, including a timeline for a non-committal test-phase at national level, and clarifying the complementary relation of the scheme to the energy performance certificates referred to in Article 16.