The European Commission is going to assess the cumulative impacts of EU internal market and energy efficiency legislation on the construction sector in a so-called ‘fitness check’. This initiative, promised by Elzbieta Bienkowska during her confirmation hearing in October 2014, meets a long-standing request from industrial stakeholders, but does not satisfy them entirely.
Work inside the Commission has seemingly been lagging behind: the ‘fitness check’, initially scheduled to start in April, has not been launched yet. And its exact scope,…