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FRA’s raison d’être is to do all it can to achieve a future in which all persons across the EU are treated with dignity and respect, and have full enjoyment of the fundamental rights and freedoms to which they are entitled. Our strategy for the 2023–2028 sets out three main priorities that we will pursue to help achieve this: supporting the upholding of fundamental rights standards in the development of new EU laws and policies; contributing to ensuring respect, protection and fulfilment of fundamental rights in the fields covered by existing EU laws and policies; and engaging in impactful cross-cutting actions to support the realisation of the EU’s fundamental rights goals and vision.

On 25 January 2017 Tourist accommodation shed in Commission Decision 2017/175, within the scheme of the EU Ecolabel Regulation (Regulation (EC) No 66/2010). This User Manual (UM) is a practical tool that summarises the steps to be followed by EU Ecolabel applicants in order to verify the compliance with the abovementioned Commission Decision. More concretely, this manuscript supports the interpretation of the EU Ecolabel criteria for Tourist accommodation and provides a good and up-to-date overview of the existent legislation and initiatives behind each EU Ecolabel criterion. This document also gives practical explanation on how to assess and verify the compliance check. The UM aims to optimise the time and ease the procedures of all the actors involved in the application stage by improving the technical understanding of sustainable product policy among intended audience (external stakeholders) and boost the number of certified tourist accommodation services products.

The proposed reform of the electricity market design maintains crucial elements of the existing system to ensure continued efficient operation. The impact that changing the rules on longer-term contracts will have on consumer prices and investment will depend on the concrete language of proposed legislation as well as its ultimate implementation. Overall, neither the expected mode of impact of individual reform elements, let alone their interaction, is clearly spelled out by the legislators. This document was provided by the Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies at the request of the committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE).