On the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2014/32/EU as regards electric vehicle supply equipment, compressed gas dispensers, and electricity, gas and thermal energy meters
A-10-2025-0173
Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection · Rapporteur: Zala Tomašič
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Parliament's amended version of the proposed directive updates Directive 2014/32/EU to cover electric vehicle supply equipment, compressed gas dispensers, and thermal energy meters for cooling, and to adapt rules for smart metering and new gases.¶¶ It clarifies metrological control, display, and data requirements, and adjusts technical specifications for measuring systems, including class indices, minimum measured quantity, and calibration compensation.¶¶¶
Committee position. The Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection proposes to adopt the Commission proposal with amendments, as set out in the draft resolution.¶
Key points
- Extends the directive's scope to electric vehicle supply equipment, compressed gas dispensers, and thermal energy meters for cooling, and considers future revisions for water meters.¶
- States that the directive does not impose retrofitting obligations on existing charging stations, but establishes a harmonised framework for newly installed equipment.¶
- Requires that displayed results be unequivocally clear, protected against accidental deletion or modification, and that additional indications cannot be confused with metrologically controlled ones.¶
- Specifies that only metrologically controlled results are traceable to the measuring instrument, and that measurement results serve solely as the basis for calculating the price to be paid.¶¶
- Allows metrologically controlled data to be made available via a remote channel, and permits cloud-based systems for EVSE and compressed gas dispensers in direct sales.¶¶
- Requires measuring systems for EVSE used for direct sales to present the measurement result to all parties in the transaction.¶
- Changes the definition of gas meters to measure volume or mass only, and of active electrical energy meters to measure energy consumed and delivered in a circuit.¶¶
- Allows EVSE measuring systems to use separately type-approved meters that meet or exceed the accuracy and reliability requirements of the measuring system.¶
- Renames class indices for EVSE measuring systems from A, B, C to X, Y, Z, and raises the minimum measured quantity (MMQ) thresholds to 2 kWh and 5 kWh.¶¶¶
- Applies calibration compensation requirements exclusively to public EVCS installations where billing is based on energy delivered to the vehicle's battery, and protection requirements to any component influencing calibration that is field-replaceable.¶¶
- Requires that electrical energy measured be displayed at least in kilowatt-hours or megawatt-hours, and that for compressed gas dispensers the ratio between maximum and minimum flow rate be no less than 10.¶¶
Who is affected
- Manufacturers of electric vehicle supply equipment, compressed gas dispensers, and electricity, gas, and thermal energy meters.¶¶¶
- Operators of public electric vehicle charging stations where billing is based on energy delivered to the vehicle's battery.¶
- Consumers using EVSE for direct sales, who must be presented with the measurement result.¶¶
Figures and deadlines
Legal basis: Article 294(2) and Article 114 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union¶