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New ecodesign and energy labelling compliance support facility for suppliers and retailers

LIFE Project Grants

Basic Information

Identifier
LIFE-2022-CET-COMPLIANCE
Programme
LIFE-2022-CET
Programme Period
2021 - 2027
Status
Closed (31094503)
Opening Date
May 17, 2022
Deadline
November 16, 2022
Deadline Model
single-stage
Budget
€6,000,000
Min Grant Amount
Max Grant Amount
Expected Number of Grants
Keywords
LIFE-2022-CET-COMPLIANCELIFE-2022-CET

Description

Expected Impact:

Proposals should result in increased understanding of and compliance with EU ecodesign and energy labelling legislation by economic operators.

Proposals should quantify their impacts using the indicators listed below, where relevant, as well as other project-specific performance indicators:

  • Number of economic operators engaged and informed by actions aiming at improving their understanding of new legislative acts (e.g. new or rescaled labels), at least 5 000 per million Euro of EU funding.
  • Primary energy savings triggered by the project (in GWh/year).
  • Renewable energy generation triggered by the project (in GWh/year).
  • Investments in sustainable energy renovation triggered by the project (cumulative, in million Euro).

These impacts should be demonstrated during the project and within 5 years after the project lifetime.

Objective:

Ecodesign and energy labelling for energy-related products enjoy widespread support by suppliers, retailers, consumers and citizens, but non-compliance with the requirements is a significant and growing concern (e.g. over 70% of products failing to meet the information requirements). Lack of awareness, knowledge or detailed understanding of the legislative provisions by economic operators is one of the likely main reasons, rather than bad will. The objective of this action is to increase visibility to operators of (existing) resources available to help them comply through increased outreach and proactive involvement by relevant stakeholders (as specified below).

Scope:

To address this, the proposed action(s) should establish a facility combining both reactive and proactive assistance to economic operators through targeted and timely information to increase their awareness, knowledge and understanding of the concerned Regulations. The precise nature of the action is very much left up to the project proposals to define, though attention should be also given to reaching small and medium size suppliers and retailers (e.g., those not engaged in trade associations and/or located in remote areas), for example on regulatory changes concerning new or rescaled energy labels. Actions should cover at least the following and have both a reactive and proactive nature:

  • Raise the capacity of manufacturers and, in particular, retailers on future rescaled, new labels or other important topics through targeted and timely communication and training campaigns, taking into account and, when possible, building upon the experience of previous, related H2020 projects.
  • Use or adapt existing technical guidance and promotional material or create new ones as appropriate. The facility should not invent or take responsibility for interpretations or other guidance, but rather help users find what exists (and refer to the competent national authorities, including market surveillance authorities or the Commission on questions where no answers or guidance exists).
  • Disseminate knowledge about available guidance/resources through the appropriate channels (websites, emails, webinars, participation in conferences, sectoral trade fairs, mailings, industry associations, specialised networks etc.), including on EPREL, with a view to raising retailers’ awareness on its existence and stimulating their potential role as multipliers.
  • Set-up a help-line service to address enquiries from economic operators (which are often too specific to be dealt with effectively by the Commission’s Europe Direct service). Questions for which no authoritative or clear answers exist yet may simply be acknowledged as such and “escalated” to the authorities.

To ensure adequacy of the information provided, beneficiaries will proactively liaise with the Commission or the competent national authorities, including national market surveillance authorities, where appropriate.

All relevant stakeholders (e.g. European and national level organisations) necessary for the successful implementation of the action should be involved, including at least:

  • European organisations representing relevant economic operators in different sectors (e.g. associations of suppliers, associations of retailers), with a minimum of 5 partners covering together through their membership at least 2/3 of the EU Member States.
  • European organisations representing relevant actors in the public or non-profit sector, with a minimum of 2 partners representing consumer, environmental NGO or Market Surveillance Authorities’ organisations, covering together through their membership at least 2/3 of the EU Member States.

Access to (networks of) experts with technical knowledge on the concerned products, regulations and standards as well as the wider legal framework will be necessary. The facility would need to be sufficiently resourced to provide swift follow-up to operators using the help-line service. Expertise in communication and outreach are also needed.

The proposed actions are invited to build on experiences and lessons learned in other relevant projects and programmes.

The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of up to EUR 2.5 million would allow the specific objectives to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts.

Proposals may be submitted by a single applicant or by applicants from a single eligible country.

Eligibility & Conditions

Conditions

Conditions



1. Admissibility conditions: described in section 5 of the call document 

Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System

2. Eligible countries: described in section 6 of of the call document

3. Other eligibility conditions: described in section 6 of the call document

4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: described in section 7 of the call document

  • Submission and evaluation processes: described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual

  • Award criteria, scoring and thresholds: described in section 9 of the call document

  • Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: described in section 4 of the call document

6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants: described in section 10 of the call document

Support & Resources

Please read carefully all provisions below before the preparation of your application: 

Funding & Tenders Portal FAQ – Submission of proposals.

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Online Manual – Step-by-step online guide through the Portal processes from proposal preparation and submission to reporting on your on-going project. Valid for all 2021-2027 programmes.

Latest Updates

Last Changed: March 20, 2023

CALL UPDATE: FLASH EVALUATION RESULTS

EVALUATION results

Published: 17.05.2022

Deadline: 16.11.2022

Available budget: 98 000 000 EUR

 

The results of the evaluation are as follows:

Call LIFE-2022-CET:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 225

Number of inadmissible proposals: 0

Number of ineligible proposals: 46

Number of above-threshold proposals: 85

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 121.754.792,21

 Call LIFE-2022-CET-BUILDPERFORM:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 4

Number of ineligible proposals: 1

Number of above-threshold proposals: 3

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 5.865.781,37

 Call LIFE-2022-CET-BUILDSKILLS:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 13

Number of ineligible proposals: 0

Number of above-threshold proposals: 5

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 3.768.838,40

 Call LIFE-2022-CET-BUSINESS:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 14

Number of ineligible proposals: 1

Number of above-threshold proposals: 9

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 13.040.546,97

 Call LIFE-2022-CET-COMPLIANCE:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 1

Number of ineligible proposals: 0

Number of above-threshold proposals: 1

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 2.410.725,00

 Call LIFE-2022-CET-DEEPRENO:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 9

Number of ineligible proposals: 5

Number of above-threshold proposals: 2

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 3.631.160,32

 

Call LIFE-2022-CET-DH:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 12

Number of ineligible proposals: 0

Number of above-threshold proposals: 4

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 6.009.574,77

 

Call LIFE-2022-CET-EE1ST:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 12

Number of ineligible proposals: 6

Number of above-threshold proposals: 3

 

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 4.487.583,22

Call LIFE-2022-CET-ENERCOM:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 32

Number of ineligible proposals: 0

Number of above-threshold proposals: 14

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 20.815.327,63

 Call LIFE-2022-CET-ENERPOV:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 10

Number of ineligible proposals: 3

Number of above-threshold proposals: 3

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 5.594.070,15

 Call LIFE-2022-CET-FINROUND:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 14

Number of ineligible proposals: 0

Number of above-threshold proposals: 6

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 4.246.460,29

 Call LIFE-2022-CET-HEATPUMPS:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 5

Number of ineligible proposals: 3

Number of above-threshold proposals: 2

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 4.136.514,62

 Call LIFE-2022-CET-HOMERENO:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 18

Number of ineligible proposals: 1

Number of above-threshold proposals: 9

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 13.815.194,78

 Call LIFE-2022-CET-INNOFIN:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 13

Number of ineligible proposals: 3

Number of above-threshold proposals: 2

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 2.917.074,57

 

Call LIFE-2022-CET-LOCAL:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 23

Number of ineligible proposals: 3

Number of above-threshold proposals: 10

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 14.776.638,33

 Call LIFE-2022-CET-MAINSTREAM:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 4

Number of ineligible proposals: 2

Number of above-threshold proposals: 0

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 0

 Call LIFE-2022-CET-PDA:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 24

Number of ineligible proposals: 12

Number of above-threshold proposals: 6

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 7.386.828,93

 Call LIFE-2022-CET-POLICY:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 1

Number of ineligible proposals: 0

Number of above-threshold proposals: 1

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 1.999.308,12

 Call LIFE-2022-CET-RENOPUB:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 16

Number of ineligible proposals: 6

Number of above-threshold proposals: 5

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 6.853.164,74

 We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals. 

For questions, please contact [email protected].

Last Changed: March 16, 2023

CALL UPDATE: FLASH EVALUATION RESULTS

EVALUATION results

Published: 17.05.2022

Deadline: 16.11.2022

Available budget: 98 000 000 EUR

Topic code

Call topic

Budget

LIFE-2022-CET-BUILDPERFORM

Energy performance and Smart Readiness of buildings – making the instruments work

7 M EUR

LIFE-2022-CET-BUILDSKILLS

BUILD UP Skills - Strategies and training interventions enabling a decarbonised building stock

6 M EUR

LIFE-2022-CET-BUSINESS

Supporting the clean energy transition of the business sector

6 M EUR

LIFE-2022-CET-COMPLIANCE

New ecodesign and energy labelling compliance support facility and help centre for suppliers and retailers 

2,5 M EUR

LIFE-2022-CET-DEEPRENO

Towards a zero emission building stock: strengthening the enabling framework for deep renovation

6 M EUR

LIFE-2022-CET-DH

Integration of low-grade renewable energy or waste heat in high temperature district heating

6 M EUR

LIFE-2022-CET-EE1st

Making the "Energy Efficiency First" principle more operational

3,5 M EUR

LIFE-2022-CET-ENERCOM

Developing support mechanisms for energy communities: Local authorities collaborating with citizen-led-initiatives

6,5 M EUR

LIFE-2022-CET-ENERPOV

Addressing building related interventions in vulnerable districts

6 M EUR

LIFE-2022-CET-FINROUND

National Finance Roundtables to support sustainable energy investments

4 M EUR

LIFE-2022-CET-HEATPUMPS

Accelerating deployment and affordability of heat pumps through collective purchase actions and procurement

6 M EUR

LIFE-2022-CET-HOMERENO

Integrated Home Renovation Services

8 M EUR

LIFE-2022-CET-INNOFIN

Innovative financing schemes for sustainable energy investments

4 M EUR

LIFE-2022-CET-LOCAL

Technical support to clean energy transition plans and strategies in municipalities and regions

7 M EUR

LIFE-2022-CET-MAINSTREAM

Mainstreaming sustainable energy investments in the financial sector

3,5 M EUR

LIFE-2022-CET-PDA

Project Development Assistance for sustainable energy investments

8 M EUR

LIFE-2022-CET-POLICY

Towards an effective implementation of key legislation in the field of sustainable energy

2 M EUR

LIFE-2022-CET-RENOPUB

Setting up facilitation structures to accelerate the renovation wave in the public sector

6 M EUR

 

The results of the evaluation are as follows:

Call LIFE-2022-CET:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 225

Number of inadmissible proposals: 0

Number of ineligible proposals: 46

Number of above-threshold proposals: 85

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 121.754.792,21

 

Call LIFE-2022-CET-BUILDPERFORM:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 4

Number of ineligible proposals: 1

Number of above-threshold proposals: 3

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 5.865.781,37

 

Call LIFE-2022-CET-BUILDSKILLS:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 13

Number of ineligible proposals: 0

Number of above-threshold proposals: 5

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 3.768.838,40

 

Call LIFE-2022-CET-BUSINESS:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 14

Number of ineligible proposals: 1

Number of above-threshold proposals: 9

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 13.040.546,97

 

Call LIFE-2022-CET-COMPLIANCE:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 1

Number of ineligible proposals: 0

Number of above-threshold proposals: 1

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 2.410.725,00

 

Call LIFE-2022-CET-DEEPRENO:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 9

Number of ineligible proposals: 5

Number of above-threshold proposals: 2

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 3.631.160,32

 

Call LIFE-2022-CET-DH:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 12

Number of ineligible proposals: 0

Number of above-threshold proposals: 4

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 6.009.574,77

 

Call LIFE-2022-CET-EE1ST:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 12

Number of ineligible proposals: 6

Number of above-threshold proposals: 3

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 4.487.583,22

 

Call LIFE-2022-CET-ENERCOM:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 32

Number of ineligible proposals: 0

Number of above-threshold proposals: 14

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 20.815.327,63

 

Call LIFE-2022-CET-ENERPOV:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 10

Number of ineligible proposals: 3

Number of above-threshold proposals: 3

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 5.594.070,15

 

Call LIFE-2022-CET-FINROUND:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 14

Number of ineligible proposals: 0

Number of above-threshold proposals: 6

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 4.246.460,29

 

Call LIFE-2022-CET-HEATPUMPS:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 5

Number of ineligible proposals: 3

Number of above-threshold proposals: 2

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 4.136.514,62

 

Call LIFE-2022-CET-HOMERENO:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 18

Number of ineligible proposals: 1

Number of above-threshold proposals: 9

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 13.815.194,78

 

Call LIFE-2022-CET-INNOFIN:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 13

Number of ineligible proposals: 3

Number of above-threshold proposals: 2

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 2.917.074,57

 

Call LIFE-2022-CET-LOCAL:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 23

Number of ineligible proposals: 3

Number of above-threshold proposals: 10

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 14.776.638,33

 

Call LIFE-2022-CET-MAINSTREAM:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 4

Number of ineligible proposals: 2

Number of above-threshold proposals: 0

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 0

 

Call LIFE-2022-CET-PDA:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 24

Number of ineligible proposals: 12

Number of above-threshold proposals: 6

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 7.386.828,93

 

Call LIFE-2022-CET-POLICY:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 1

Number of ineligible proposals: 0

Number of above-threshold proposals: 1

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 1.999.308,12

 

Call LIFE-2022-CET-RENOPUB:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 16

Number of ineligible proposals: 6

Number of above-threshold proposals: 5

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 6.853.164,74

 We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.

For questions, please contact [email protected].

Last Changed: November 21, 2022

On 16 November 2022, a total of 225 proposals were submitted in response to the following topics:

LIFE-2022-CET-BUILDPERFORM: 4 proposals

LIFE-2022-CET- BUILDSKILLS: 13 proposals

LIFE-2022-CET-BUSINESS: 14 proposals

LIFE-2022-CET-COMPLIANCE: 1 proposal

LIFE-2022-CET-DEEPRENO: 9 proposals

LIFE-2022-CET-DH: 12 proposals

LIFE-2022-CET-EE1st: 12 proposals

LIFE-2022-CET-ENERCOM: 32 proposals

LIFE-2022-CET-ENERPOV: 10 proposals

LIFE-2022-CET-FINROUND: 14 proposals

LIFE-2022-CET-HEATPUMPS: 5 proposals

LIFE-2022-CET-HOMERENO: 18 proposals

LIFE-2022-CET-INNOFIN: 13 proposals

LIFE-2022-CET-LOCAL: 23 proposals

LIFE-2022-CET-MAINSTREAM: 4 proposals

LIFE-2022-CET-PDA: 24 proposals

LIFE-2022-CET-POLICY: 1 proposal

LIFE-2022-CET-RENOPUB: 16 proposals

Last Changed: June 30, 2022

We want to draw your attention to the possibility to get support from your National Contact Point (European National Contact Points (europa.eu)). To facilitate such support, it would be beneficial to add your National Contact Point (NCP) under the “Participants” step of the application, by clicking on “Add contact”. Then,  Under “Project role”, use the option “Contact person” and add your NCP’s data.

Last Changed: May 17, 2022
The submission session is now available for: LIFE-2022-CET-DH(LIFE-PJG), LIFE-2022-CET-COMPLIANCE(LIFE-PJG), LIFE-2022-CET-INNOFIN(LIFE-PJG), LIFE-2022-CET-LOCAL(LIFE-PJG), LIFE-2022-CET-MAINSTREAM(LIFE-PJG), LIFE-2022-CET-ENERCOM(LIFE-PJG), LIFE-2022-CET-BUILDSKILLS(LIFE-PJG), LIFE-2022-CET-EE1st(LIFE-PJG), LIFE-2022-CET-RENOPUB(LIFE-PJG), LIFE-2022-CET-ENERPOV(LIFE-PJG), LIFE-2022-CET-PDA(LIFE-PJG), LIFE-2022-CET-BUILDPERFORM(LIFE-PJG), LIFE-2022-CET-BUSINESS(LIFE-PJG), LIFE-2022-CET-FINROUND(LIFE-PJG), LIFE-2022-CET-POLICY(LIFE-PJG), LIFE-2022-CET-HEATPUMPS(LIFE-PJG), LIFE-2022-CET-HOMERENO(LIFE-PJG), LIFE-2022-CET-DEEPRENO(LIFE-PJG)
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