The plans will ensure the renovation of the national stock of residential and non-residential buildings, both public and private, into a highly energy-efficient and decarbonised building stock by 2050. The overarching objective is to transform existing buildings into zero-emission buildings.
The requirement for EU countries to establish and submit the new renovation plans is set out in article 3 of the revised Energy Performance of Buildings Directive.
These plans are part of the integrated National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPS) and their progress will be tracked, monitored and assessed through the integrated national NECP Reporting.
Process and timeline
By 31 December 2025, all EU countries have to establish a draft National Building Renovation Plan. Once EU countries submit their draft plans, the Commission will assess them and may issue recommendations within 6 months. EU countries will have to take due account of these recommendations, and then submit their final plan by 31 December 2026.
The plans must be preceded by a national public consultation in order to ensure that the plans respond to national needs and take stakeholders’ views into consideration.
The plans must include at least
- an overview of the national building stock for different building types
- a roadmap with nationally established targets for 2030, 2040 and 2050 (including a range of progress indicators)
- an overview of planned policies and measures and
- an outline of the investment needs and financing sources for its implementation.
Annex II of the revised Energy Performance of Buildings Directive establishes a common template for the drafting of these plans. The Commission is preparing an annotated template to support EU countries.
National long-term renovation strategies 2020
The latest round of national long-term renovation strategies was submitted in 2020 and provided important input to the Renovation Wave for Europe and the subsequent recast of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, both part of the European Green Deal.
The 2020 strategies (article 2A of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive) are available in national language and English in the list below.
2020 long-term building renovation strategy – in German – translated in English
2020 long-term building renovation strategy for Brussels – in French – translated in English
2020 long-term building renovation strategy for Flanders – in Dutch – translated in English
2020 long-term building renovation strategy for Wallonia – in French – translated in English
Annex – in French – in English
2020 long-term building renovation strategy – in Bulgarian – translated in English
Annexes in Bulgarian: 1, 2, 3 – translated in English: 1, 2, 3
2020 long-term building renovation strategy – in Croatian – translated in English
2020 long-term building renovation strategy – in Greek – translated in English
2020 long-term building renovation strategy – in Czech – translated in English
2020 long-term building renovation strategy – in Danish – translated in English
2020 long-term building renovation strategy – in Estonian – translated in English
2020 long-term building renovation strategy – in Finnish – translated in English
2020 long-term building renovation strategy – in French – translated in English
2020 long-term building renovation strategy – in German – translated in English
2020 long-term building renovation strategy – in Greek – translated in English
2020 long-term building renovation strategy – in Hungarian – translated in English
2020 long-term building renovation strategy – in English
2020 long-term building renovation strategy – in Italian – translated in English
2020 long-term building renovation strategy – in Latvian – translated in English
2020 long-term building renovation strategy – in Lithuanian – translated in English
2020 long-term building renovation strategy – in Luxembourgish – translated in English
2020 long-term building renovation strategy – in English
2020 long-term building renovation strategy – in Dutch – translated in English
2020 long-term building renovation strategy – in Polish – translated in English
2020 long-term building renovation strategy – in Portuguese – translated in English
2020 long-term building renovation strategy – in Romanian – translated in English
2020 long-term building renovation strategy – in Slovak – translated in English
Annex: in Slovak – translated in English
2020 long-term building renovation strategy – in Slovenian – translated in English
2020 long-term building renovation strategy – in Spanish – translated in English
2020 long-term building renovation strategy – in Swedish – translated in English
With a view to share best practices among EU countries, the Commission developed a Staff Working Document (SWD/2022/375) analysing the national long-term renovation strategies 2020 for all EU countries. The strategies and their assessment were a key input to the National Recovery and Resilience Plans, where energy-efficient buildings renovation has a prominent place.
National long-term renovation strategies 2014 and 2017
In 2014 and 2017, the strategies showed how EU countries planned to foster investment in the renovation of residential and commercial buildings.
The long-term renovation strategies (article 4 of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive) 2014 (and the update 2017) are available and listed per country in dedicated folders.
Related Links
- Revised Energy Performance of Building Directive (2024/EU/1275)
- Assessment of the first long-term renovation strategies under the Energy Performance of Building Directive (Art. 2a) (December 2022)
- Recommendation on building renovation ((EU) 2019/786)
- Assessment of second long-term renovation strategies under the Energy Efficiency Directive (2019)
- Comprehensive study of building energy renovation activities and the uptake of nearly zero-energy buildings in the EU (2019)
- Synthesis report on the assessment of Member States' building renovation strategies (2016)