New ecodesign directive: risk of a ban on wood-burning stoves

4.2.2025

Question for written answer  E-000487/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Ondřej Knotek (PfE), Jana Nagyová (PfE)

According to various sources, the Commission is currently working on the draft of a new ecodesign directive 2027. If fireplaces, wood-burning stoves and fireplace inserts have to be connected to the electricity grid, this will eliminate the advantage of independence from other energy sources. In addition, the limit values for soot particle emissions are to be reduced so drastically – from 1 500 milligrams to just 500 milligrams – that stoves will become almost unaffordable for most people, as the costs for technically complex conversions or for new stoves will increase enormously. A large proportion of the population would thus be deprived of being able to have a cosy open fire in their own home.

Is the Commission able to grant EU citizens the freedom and independence to use fireplaces and wood-burning stoves in the future, as is possible today?

Submitted: 4.2.2025