Abstract
European harmonisation of construction products provides a uniform expression of performance aspects relevant for essential characteristics coming from notified technical building regulations of the EU Member States. Since the current regulation has been in force for over seven years, this study evaluates further possibilities of its evolution, including a more efficient approach to implementing environmental sustainability aspects. The provided research is based on qualitative analysis of the past and current legislation, official documents, related guidance, judgements, scientific articles and the author’s practical experience coming from participation in the European committees, organisations and standardisation activities. Various legislative techniques and regulatory tools that could be potentially used to review the Construction Products Regulation are analysed and compared with regards to their impact on the inclusion of environmental sustainability principles. Therefore, the objective of this research is to provide substantive grounds that can be directly or indirectly used in the policymaking processes on the European and national level.
Highlights
Environmental Sustainability Aspects.According to the data presented by the European Commission (EC), the construction sector is relevant for an impressive number of 18 million jobs and about 9% of GDP in the European Union [1]
Sector relevant goods are mainly construction products—the goods manufactured to order to be incorporated in construction work, in a permanent manner, which performance has an influence on the level how the construction work contributes to the level of characteristics that are required by national laws
According to the study [10] published in 2007, even such a basic issue, which was the meaning of the CE marking of construction product, was not fully and correctly recognised on the market
Summary
Environmental Sustainability Aspects.According to the data presented by the European Commission (EC), the construction sector is relevant for an impressive number of 18 million jobs and about 9% of GDP in the European Union [1]. Sector relevant goods are mainly construction products—the goods manufactured to order to be incorporated in construction work, in a permanent manner, which performance has an influence on the level how the construction work contributes to the level of characteristics that are required by national laws (for example building technical regulations). This distinction between product’s performance and the technical conditions to be fulfilled by the construction works constitutes the borderline between the roles and responsibilities of economic operators, the Union and the EU Member States (MS), as a background for the still-living concept of the European harmonisation of construction products that was introduced some 30 years ago
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