Brussels, 4 November 2025 – The undersigned support the European Commission's planned legislative initiative on an Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) in the context of the Clean Industrial Deal. The aim of the future IAA must be to drive industrial decarbonisation and support the European construction ecosystem in its sustainability journey. To achieve its objectives, it is essential that the IAA does not create additional administrative burdens but rather relies on effective existing tools to accurately respond to the realities of SMEs that make up most of the construction ecosystem.

To effectively shift toward sustainable construction, contractors and product manufacturers work closely and align their efforts in selecting the most efficient and sustainable products. To do so, the construction sector broadly supports the use of established regulatory tools, such as Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) and environmental performance information as an element of future Declarations of Performance and Conformity (DoPCs) under the 2024 Construction Products Regulation (CPR). They provide a vast array of sustainability information, which enables informed choices at the building level. The IAA should explicitly recognise these instruments, which are already well established and accessible to companies of all sizes, including SMEs. The future legislation must ensure coherence while avoiding unnecessary administrative burden.

In the same logic, procurement teams can already rely on detailed technical documentation, standards, and performance specifications, including environmental criteria defined by the CPR and EN15804. Life-cycle Global Warming Potential (LC GWP) thresholds for new buildings already make comprehensive life-cycle assessments mandatory, using science-based methodologies with clear reduction targets. This interplay is key to advancing low-carbon construction. Introducing additional “green” labels risks adding unnecessary complexity, undermining the very decarbonisation goal if criteria other than the carbon intensity are used to determine the emission performance class.

The undersigned express serious concerns about biased and inconsistent labelling initiatives that are currently endorsed by the European Commission. We recommend that any future labelling scheme shall be legally compatible with existing legislation. The application of methodologies that use information other than what is defined by the CPR to determine the actual emission performance on a scale (e.g. A-E) can never be applied in construction.

We therefore urge the European Commission to give due consideration to this specific aspect or to establish a sectoral exception for construction in the upcoming Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA).

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