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On Tuesday 25 October, the mandatory integration of dedicated bicycle parking spaces into the design of every building took a major legislative step forward. By...Revision of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive takes major step forward with EU Member States supporting proposal to require bicycle parking in every new and r...

03 Nov, 2022
ECF analysis: Mandatory bicycle parking in the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive is great news for cyclists

On 15 December, the European Commission presented a revision proposal for the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), for which the European Cyclists’...All new and renovated residential and non-residential buildings must provide spaces for bicycle parking, according to a new revision proposal for the Energy Performa...

22 Dec, 2021

In June 2021, after more than three years of negotiations, the European Parliament and Council agreed upon a new funding regulation for the 2021-27 Multiannual...An updated regulation for EU Structural Funds has demanded increased levels of investment from cities and regions towards sustainable mobility, a major opportunity to att...

14 Oct, 2021

Allocating 10 % of the transport capital budget to cycling has been a long-standing demand of the European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF). But so far, to our knowle...

29 Jul, 2020
ECF ranks France on top with most sustainable parking policy in Europe

"France has the best off-street parking regulations in place when it comes to promoting sustainable mobility in Europe" found a report published by the European...

26 Mar, 2019

Most bicycle and car trips start and end in buildings: in apartment blocks, in offices or in commercial buildings. Yet off-street parking is the often overlooke...

15 Jun, 2018

Today MEPs sent mixed signals with regard to extending new requirements for electro-mobility infrastructure in buildings to (e-)cycling. On the positive side, t...

11 Oct, 2017

In December 2016, the European Commission proposed a revision of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive with the overall view of increasing the energy ef...

19 Jul, 2017

Doubling cycling in the EU in the next ten years calls for the development of a European cycling strategy. To obtain political support at the hig...

19 Sep, 2016

Cycling into the future - a new approach to infrastructure, a new approach to policy-making at European level! This event, jointly organized in partnership of t...

26 Jul, 2016