Recital 21

(21) When preparing ecodesign requirements, the Commission should take into account a number of elements, namely Union priorities, relevant Union and national law, relevant international agreements as well as self-regulation measures and relevant standards. The Commission should also take into account the priorities for the climate, the environment, energy efficiency, resource efficiency and security, including a non-toxic circular economy, and other related Union priorities and targets. It is important to pay attention to the objectives of the 8th Environment Action Programme set out in Decision (EU) 2022/591, including that, by 2050 at the latest, people live well, within the planetary boundaries in a well-being economy, the ‘do no harm’ principle and the waste hierarchy as defined in Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (25), as well as the Union’s commitments to protect and restore biodiversity as expressed also in the communication of the Commission of 20 May 2020 on an EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 — Bringing nature back into our lives and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework adopted by the Fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP-15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity of the United Nations.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-12 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.