The purpose of the definitions tracker is to assess the progress of the transposition of the provisions on definitions for RECs and CECs. These provisions were introduced by the Renewable Energy Directive (RED II) and the Internal Electricity Market Directive (IEMD). It should be noted that the deadline for the transposition of the IEMD and the RED II into national legislation has already passed.

This tracker provides an overall comparative assessment of the progress of the transposition with regards to the definitions in the different European Member States following a traffic light grading system. Each Member State has a specific colour to represent how far they have progressed towards transposing the EU definitions of energy communities.

Each Member State’s overall grade is informed by a qualitative assessment based on a set of indicators representing the elements that must be included to properly transpose provisions on definitions for RECs and CECs. When clicking on a specific country, you will find an overall descriptive assessment of the national legislation that transposed the EU definitions, as well as a table with a short but detailed assessment of each indicator. The sources that we used for the assessment of the transposition process in each country are the legislative texts which were made public, either on a final version or a draft.

Last updated: March 2024.

This definitions tracker will be frequently updated with the new developments in the national EU legislation. In order to do so, your help is highly appreciated. In case you have additional information on the progress of the transposition in your country or you have comments/corrections on the existing information, please contact directly: jonathan.bonadio@rescoop.eu. 

To develop the national assessment tables, we evaluated the existing legislation in each Member State regarding the transposition of energy community provisions.

Our analysis utilised the country fiches from the European Energy Communities Facility, which provide a detailed examination of national legislation for energy communities across all 27 EU Member States.

This definitions tracker does not necessarily reflect the position of the European Commission.