Stefan Scheuer1st April 2026
Experts on citizen-led renovation were interviewed about the concept’s usefulness and shared their own renovation experiences.
See the videos of Ciarán Cuffe, Marion Santini, Quentin Jossen, and Thomas Pellerin-Carlin.
Our consultancy has been supporting the European Commission’s DG ENER through the Support Service for Citizen-Led Renovation project. Stefan Scheuer Consulting has been involved for three years in a consortium with several partners, managing a policy board made up of high-level experts, policy representatives, and stakeholders.
You can read an article on the final board meeting here, and watch interviews of the board’s experts: here, here, here, and here.
Our consultancy has been involved in several projects and research pieces on the implementation of the energy efficiency acquis. To boost demand for energy efficiency products and services, the Citizen-led Renovation concept was established and developed in cooperation with REScoop.eu. Citizen-led Renovation is now a topic of EU funding (LIFE, PPPA). The pilot project was funded by the European Climate Foundation.
Since 2025, Stefan Scheuer has been the treasurer of the European Environmental Bureau (EEB).
Prior to that, from 2018, he was a member of the EEB board.
Consisting of some 30 national members, up to 10 European network representatives and up to three other individuals, the full Board meets three to four times a year to provide oversight and direction in between the meetings of the General Assembly.
29th September 2026
HEAL and CHEM Trust hosted a high-level conference on the much-needed REACH revision, bringing together EU and national policymakers, scientific experts, civil society organisations and representatives of industry and health groups.
200 participants gathered to discuss tools such as the Mixture Assessment Factor, the registration of polymers, and the extension of the fast-track restriction procedure for the most harmful chemicals.
They welcomed Environment Commissioner Jessica Roswall, who promised to achieve this revision. “The REACH revision is essential and we are working hard to get there, but it needs a strong foundation, and strong evidence base, and we are ready to do whatever it takes to deliver that”. Many speakers and participants agreed that REACH needed to be simplified and modernised.
Health journalist Sue Saville closed the event with the following summary: Europeans are currently not safe; sorting out the chemical crisis is an investment, not a cost; and a REACH revision is essential to protect people and ensure the European chemicals industry is not the cheapest globally, but the best.
This news item was based on a loner blog article initially published on CHEM Trust website and written by Sophie Dunkerley, which you can consult here.
Read CHEM Trust’s request for an ambitious revision in their briefing – REACH revision 2025: simpler, faster, bolder
Stefan Scheuer Consulting supported DENEFF, the voice of German businesses for energy efficiency, to ensure EU legislators walk the talk and make energy savings the bedrock for a fair, fast and attractive energy transition.
During this period, the Energy Efficiency and the Energy Performance of Buildings directives were under revision to align them with the EU’s climate targets and to respond to the energy crisis caused by Putin’s war.
The consultancy also worked on awareness raising among EU decision-makers of the importance and big potential of clean and efficient industrial process heat in Germany and the EU.
See an example of briefing and event we organised as part of our collaboration with DENEFF.
Fostering support for an ambitious and stable post-2030 energy efficiency framework.
Since 2019, Stefan Scheuer has been working on replacing the most harmful chemicals with safer alternatives in his role as Chief EU Policy Advocate. He is supported by Ioana and Fanny from the consultancy, who are responsible for duties related to policy, advocacy, news monitoring, newsletter production and event management in their respective roles as Policy Advocate and Policy Support.
The team is leading CHEM Trust’s EU advocacy. Great achievements include a ban on hormone-disrupting chemicals and PFAS in toys, and the creation of new harmonised classes for endocrine disruptors and other types of hazards related to persistence.
The team also represents CHEM Trust at events, towards the EU institutions or other stakeholders.
For more information, please check CHEM Trust’s website.
Since 2025, CHEM Trust Europe, Ecocity, and Legambiente have been campaigning for EU chemicals policies to phase out the most harmful chemicals from consumer products by 2030. Stefan Scheuer Consulting is managing the campaign and project.
The project is funded under the European Environment Initiative (EURENI) launched by the German Ministry for the Environment. For more information, please check the EURENI website.
10th April 2025
Parliament and Council agreed to extend the generic restriction for the most harmful chemicals in toys. The Toy Safety Law will now cover PFAS, a group of ten bisphenols, and known and suspected endocrine-disruptive chemicals classified asEDC category 1 and 2.
There is a 4.5-year transition period for all provisions of the law.
PFAS and the ten bisphenols will be banned without requiring classification.
The European Chemicals Agency identified 34 bisphenols as known or potential endocrine disruptors or reprotoxic in 2021. The ten that have now been added to the ban have not yet been classified.
The current toy safety rules already ban classified carcinogens, mutagens and reprotoxics.
5th February 2025
DENEFF, the business voice in Germany for energy efficiency, brought together stakeholders and policy makers in the NRW representation in Brussels to exchange on the potential for clean and efficient process heat technologies and on policies to accelerate their deployment.
A study found that German companies could halve their energy demand and reduce energy bills by 21 bn euros every year if all available and economic measures would be implemented.
Lead and coordinated an EU awareness campaign on toxic-free products by 2030 on behalf of the charity CHEM Trust, in partnership with the EEB (European Environmental Bureau).
The project was funded under the European Environment Initiative (EURENI) launched by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment.
