Small Business Standards has co-signed, together with Construction Products Europe , the European Construction Industry Federation (FIEC) and European Builders Confederation (EBC), a joint statement titled “The Construction Industry on the upcoming Industrial Accelerator Act.”
The four organisations welcome the European Commission’s ambition to accelerate industrial decarbonisation through the Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA), while emphasising that the new legislation must remain coherent with the 2024 Construction Products Regulation (CPR-2024) and existing standards such as EN 15804.
The statement warns against introducing additional or “green” labels for industrial materials, as these would duplicate existing systems and create unnecessary complexity for companies, especially SMEs. Instead, the signatories call for the IAA to explicitly recognise the CPR-2024 and EN 15804 as the single, harmonised framework for environmental information on construction products.
SBS and its partners also stress that the Act must remain practical and proportionate, ensuring that efforts to promote low-carbon materials do not result in further administrative or financial burdens on the construction ecosystem.
The joint statement has been addressed to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Executive Vice-Presidents Stéphane Séjourné and Teresa Ribera and all fellow Commissioners in charge of the Clean Industrial Deal.
