Products
Eurogypsum Key Messages on Sustainable Production and Consumption
Eurogypsum calls on the Commission to
- Maintain it efforts to promote life cycle based environmental policies as a mean for more science-based and coherent thinking;
- Refocus its climate change policy and related issues (energy efficiency) within the long term perspective of coherent life-cycle based environmental policies and incentives;
- To continue promoting the LCA platform of the European Commission. This will
enable in the longer term to take a full life cycle approach, for more cost-efficient
and flexible measures;
- To promote eco-design for non-energy products wisely taking into account the
characteristics of the industry where the products are used (26 September 2007) .
Key Messages on SCP -en.pdf
Market-Based Instruments
Eurogypsum PP on Green Paper MBI -en.pdf
TC 350: Sustainability in Buildings
The first Objective of TC 350 is to develop common rules for the assessment of the environmental performance of new and existing buildings within the framework of integrated performance of buildings.
Construction Products
Eurogypsum advocates that the declaration of products should only cover the environmental performances in accordance with ISO standards that the TC 350 Business Plan supports. In this case, the life-cycle analysis should be carried out from cradle to grave (including recycling and dismantling but excluding the use phase of the building as this is already covered by the life-cycle of the building). The Environmental Products Declaration is then used in a business to business context (B2B), not in a business the consumers context(B2C) (29 March 2007).
Eurogypsum PP on TC350 -en.pdf
Energy Efficiency
In view of the fact that those gypsum plasterboards together with insulating products offers a good technological and energy efficient solution at good prices, Eurogypsum would like to highlight the fact that the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive has enormous potential, so long as it is purposefully implemented. It is already clear that, whilst some regions and some governments are determined to maximise the opportunities this Directive offers, other have declared their intention to deliver only the most perfunctory, minimalist compliance. It is vital that the Commission ensures that best practice in delivering this directive is replicated throughout the Union (March 2006).
Eurogypsum PP on Energy Efficiency -en.pdf
 
Revision of the Construction Products Directive
Eurogypsum advocates to simplify the current Directive in order to do better regulation for an ambitious strategy to reduce the administrative burden of existing regulation and particularly of the Conctrustion Products Directive. We are convinced that our proposal will sharply reduce the current administrative management of the CPD both at EU level, Member States level and Industry level.
Eurogypsum position paper on CPR -en.pdf
 
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