Commission launches tender on Eco-design Directive study

The Commission has launched a tender for a study on the amended working plan under the Eco-design Directive. The study is intended to bring together and complement available information on which product groups should be included among the indicative priorities. The study also aims to give stakeholders the opportunity for early input.

The Commission also says that the study will take into consideration that the scope of the Eco-design Directive has been amended, and should therefore consider all energy-related products, including energy-using products not yet targeted for developing implemented measures under the Directive, as candidates to include in the second working plan. The contract will last 15 months. The deadline for proposals is on 15 June 2010.

The invitation to tender can be found here:
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newsroom/cf/document.cfm?action=display&doc_id=5740&userservice_id=1&request.id=0