EU LEGISLATIVE SIMPLIFICATION PROGRAMME – ENERGY CONSERVATION, NUCLEAR LAWS
November 1st, 2005
KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Commission has announced plans to simplify European Union (EU) rules on a range of energy topics, part of a major overhaul of EU legislation that has been unveiled by the current Commission. In a bid to make European laws more user-friendly, Brussels has said it will:*Rewrite and extend the field of a 1992 directive on labelling and product information regarding the energy consumption by household appliances;*Simplify and reduce red tape associated with the EU's 2001 energy efficiency labelling programme for office equipment;*Repeal and ...
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