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Solstice supports the European Unions ambition to accelerate the transition to circularity. Increasing refrigerant circularity is essential to meet the EUs decarbonisation goals. We encourage the European Commission to be ambitious by: 1) Explicitly including Hydrofluoroolefins (HFOs) within the scope of the WEEE Directive: As part of the WEEE revision, the Commission should establish a minimum quantity of…

Honeywell welcomes the Commission’s proposal on the revision of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD). As a software-industrial company with a strong and long-standing, 60-year European footprint, we blend physical products with software to provide sustainable and innovative solutions to climate change.

Honeywell products contribute meaningfully to the safe and efficient functioning of many modern applications such as chillers, heat pumps and air conditioning systems for residential, industrial and commercial buildings as well as cars and trucks.

Regarding the backup copy obligation, for companies that plan to create and host their own DPPs, the Regulation should explicitly allow the backup obligation to be met using EU sovereign, enterprise grade cloud infrastructure operated by the manufacturer. Logically and administratively separated EU cloud environments can provide full continuity without forcing outsourcing to external backup hosting providers.

Regarding verification of the economic operator, requiring qualified signatures and seals for every legal entity creates disproportionate administrative and financial overhead for multinational manufacturers. Suggested to allow group level/corporate level verification and routine registry access via substantial level eIDAS after initial onboarding.

Regarding EU-resilient data storage and continuity, the regulation should clarify that DPP data and backup copies must remain continuously accessible to EU market-surveillance authorities, notified bodies and other authorized actors throughout the required passport lifetime.

Regarding trust and assurance of DPP service providers, the regulation should clarify minimum trust requirements for DPP IT/service providers to prevent the Battery Passport from becoming a static datasheet behind a QR code.

To achieve the decarbonization of the heating and cooling sectors, we urge DG Energy to consider the following elements in the review of the Heating and Cooling Strategy: 1) Recognize the contribution of low-global warming technology solutions such as HFOs in the heating and cooling sector: F-Gases, and in particular hydrofluoroolefins (HFOs), are advanced refrigerants that help make the decarbonization of these two…

Honeywell’s Comments to the European Commission on New Rules to Prevent Methane Leakage in the Energy Sector Thank you for the opportunity to provide feedback on the European Commission’s “Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on methane emissions reduction in the energy sector and amending Regulation (EU) 2019/942.” Executive Summary • We support the Commission’s ambition to…

Honeywell welcomes the opportunity to comment on the Commission’s Inception Impact Assessment (IIA) on a ‘Proposal for a legislative act to reduce methane emissions in the oil, gas and coal sectors.’ Honeywell fully supports the aims of the proposed assessment in relation to bringing in MRV, LDAR and the consideration of ending routine venting and flaring.