RED II — Directive (EU) 2018/2001

Full legal title: Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources

What it is, what happened, who decided, what is being done, where to act. · updated 2026-10-23 · Ask about this act →

What it is

Subject matter This Directive establishes a common framework for the promotion of energy from renewable sources. It sets a binding Union target for the overall share of energy from renewable sources in the Union's gross final consumption of energy in 2030. It also lays down rules on financial support for electricity from renewable sources, on self-consumption of such electricity, on the use of energy from renewable sources in the heating and cooling sector and in the transport sector, on regional cooperation between Member States, and between Member States and third countries, on guarantees of origin, on administrative procedures and on information and training. […]

Article 1 of the act, verbatim Article 1
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Who decided what, and when

2018-12-11
The adopting institution
The act was adopted and published in the Official Journal.
EUR-Lex

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How the act has already been changed

Amendments that became law, and how long each took from the Commission's proposal to adoption. This is the answer to "can this be changed at all" — from the EU's own register.

What changedProposedBecame lawTook
as regards improving the Union’s electricity market design (Text with EEA relevance)
32024L1711		—2024-06-13—
as regards adding feedstock for the production of biofuels and biogas
32024L1405		—2024-03-14—
as regards a methodology for calculating the amount of renewable energy used for cooling and district cooling
32022R0759		—2021-12-14—
as regards the promotion of energy from renewable sources, and repealing Council Directive (EU) 2015/652
32023L2413		2021-07-142023-10-18826 days

What is being done now

2022-05-18pending
A proposal to amend this act has been tabled — amending Directive (EU) 2018/2001 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources, Directive 2010/31/EU on the energy performance of buildings and Directive 2012/27/EU on energy efficiency. Not yet law.
The proposal (EUR-Lex)
2023-03-14pending
A proposal to amend this act has been tabled — amending Regulations (EU) 2019/943 and (EU) 2019/942 as well as Directives (EU) 2018/2001 and (EU) 2019/944 to improve the Union’s electricity market design. Not yet law.
The proposal (EUR-Lex)
2025-12-10pending
A proposal to amend this act has been tabled — as regards acceleration of permit-granting procedures. Not yet law.
The proposal (EUR-Lex)

Where you can act

  1. Your MEPs
    They vote on changes to this act. The list is below; each EP profile carries a contact form and an e-mail address.
  2. European Commission public consultations
    Every initiative implementing or amending this act goes out for public consultation; anyone may file, entries are published, and the Commission must summarise them.
  3. European Parliament Petitions Committee (PETI)
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The national layer

How many of each country's own laws in our corpora rest on this act — a measure of size, not a transposition score.

153
Estonia
145
Lithuania
32
Italy
19
Slovenia
18
Sweden
5
Latvia

How each country transposed it →

Measures notified to the Commission as transposing this act

What Lithuania NOTIFIED to the European Commission (EUR-Lex sector 7) as measures transposing this act — not an assessment of implementation.

ActSourcenotified
I-671/1994
Įstatymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202201798		original (Valstybės žinios 96-1872) (suvestinė redakcija nuo 2021-07-01)2022-04-07
I-1240/1996
Įstatymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202201799		original (Valstybės žinios 32-788) (suvestinė redakcija nuo 2021-11-01)2022-04-07
Nr. I-1495/1996
Įstatymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202202706		original (Valstybės žinios 82-1965) (suvestinė redakcija nuo 2021-01-01)2022-04-21
VIII-787/1998
Įstatymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_286929		original (Valstybės žinios 61-1726) (suvestinė redakcija nuo 2021-07-01 iki 2021-10-31)2022-03-15
VIII-935/1998
Įstatymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202105756		original (Valstybės žinios 109-2993) (suvestinė redakcija nuo 2019-06-20)2021-08-04
217/1999
Įsakymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202108256		original (Valstybės žinios 63-2065) (suvestinė redakcija nuo 2021-10-09)2022-03-15
VIII-1725/2000
Įstatymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202201304		original (Valstybės žinios 52-1484) (suvestinė redakcija nuo 2021-12-04)2022-03-15
VIII-1881/2000
Įstatymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202108239		original (Valstybės žinios 66-1984) (suvestinė redakcija nuo 2021-11-13)2022-03-15
Nr. IX-884/2002
Įstatymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202202705		original (Valstybės žinios 56-2224) (suvestinė redakcija nuo 2021-01-01)2022-04-21
IX-1565/2003
Įstatymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202108240		original (Valstybės žinios 51-2254) (suvestinė redakcija nuo 2021-11-13)2022-03-15
1-244/2009
Įsakymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202105765		original (Valstybės žinios 149-6677) (suvestinė redakcija nuo 2019-10-01)2021-08-04
1-38/2010
Įsakymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202105767		original (Valstybės žinios 20-957) (suvestinė redakcija nuo 2021-07-27 iki 2021-08-31)2021-08-04
1314/2010
Nutarimas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202105764		original (Valstybės žinios 113-5757) (suvestinė redakcija nuo 2017-07-12)2021-08-04
D1-262/2011
Įsakymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202201801		original (Valstybės žinios 39-1889) (suvestinė redakcija nuo 2021-05-27)2022-04-07
XI-1375/2011
Įstatymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202105755		original (Valstybės žinios 62-2936) (suvestinė redakcija nuo 2021-07-01 iki 2021-12-31)2021-08-04
O3-229/2011
Įsakymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202304109		original (Valstybės žinios 101-4774) (suvestinė redakcija nuo 2020-07-25)2023-08-09
1217/2011
Nutarimas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202304112		original (Valstybės žinios 129-6114) (suvestinė redakcija nuo 2023-05-01)2023-08-08
1-116/2012
Įsakymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202304110		original (Valstybės žinios 69-3562) (suvestinė redakcija nuo 2022-10-25)2023-08-08
XI-2133/2012
Nutarimas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202105757		original (Valstybės žinios 80-4149) (suvestinė redakcija nuo 2018-06-30)2021-08-04
Nr. 1-127/2012
Įsakymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202202708		original (Valstybės žinios 82-4279) (suvestinė redakcija nuo 2021-03-18)2022-04-21
Nr. 1-216/2012
Įsakymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202202711		original (Valstybės žinios 132-6712) (suvestinė redakcija nuo 2016-04-16)2022-04-21
XII-459/2013
Įstatymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202304367		original (Valstybės žinios 76-3848) (suvestinė redakcija nuo 2021-07-01)2023-09-25
Nr. 1256/2013
Nutarimas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202202707		original (Valstybės žinios 136-6921)2022-04-21
O3-435/2015
Įsakymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202304113		e-TAR (register) ↗ (suvestinė redakcija nuo 2022-11-19)2023-08-09
1-298/2016
Įsakymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202304128, 72018L2001LTU_284398		e-TAR (register) ↗ (suvestinė redakcija nuo 2023-07-01) (Suvestinė redakcija nuo 2020-06-02)2023-08-11, 2020-06-15
D1-754/2016
Įsakymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202106022		e-TAR (register) ↗ (suvestinė redakcija nuo 2020-09-29)2021-09-10
1-170/2017
Įsakymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202201792		e-TAR (register) ↗ (suvestinė redakcija nuo 2022-01-01)2022-04-07
1-158/2019
Įsakymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_284397		e-TAR (register) ↗ (Suvestinė redakcija nuo 2020-06-02)2020-06-15
1-185/2019
Įsakymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202104564		e-TAR (register) ↗2021-06-29
829/2019
Nutarimas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202304111		e-TAR (register) ↗ (suvestinė redakcija nuo 2023-03-21)2023-08-08
XIII-2868/2020
Įstatymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_285974		e-TAR (register) ↗2020-07-15
XIII-2869/2020
Įstatymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_285975		e-TAR (register) ↗2020-07-15
1-140/2020
Įsakymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202104565		e-TAR (register) ↗2021-06-29
1-139/2020
Įsakymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202104570		e-TAR (register) ↗2021-06-29
XIII-3021/2020
Įstatymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202304363		e-TAR (register) ↗2023-08-07
O3E-1458/2020
Įsakymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202100549		e-TAR (register) ↗2021-02-04
1-423/2020
Įsakymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202100075		e-TAR (register) ↗2021-01-06
XIV-196/2021
Įstatymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202104568		e-TAR (register) ↗2021-06-29
XIV-197/2021
Įstatymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202108238		e-TAR (register) ↗2024-04-23
D1-317/2021
Įsakymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202104163		e-TAR (register) ↗2021-06-29
D1-415/2021
Įsakymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202105978		e-TAR (register) ↗2021-10-15
1-223/2021
Įsakymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202106643		e-TAR (register) ↗2021-10-15
789/2021
Nutarimas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202304365		e-TAR (register) ↗2024-04-23
XIV-627/2021
Įstatymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202108255		e-TAR (register) ↗2024-04-23
XIV-980/2022
Įstatymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202202225		e-TAR (register) ↗2022-04-04
Nr. XIV-1001/2022
Įstatymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202202702		e-TAR (register) ↗2022-04-21
Nr. XIV-1002/2022
Įstatymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202202703		e-TAR (register) ↗2022-04-21
XIV-1067/2022
Įstatymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202204282		e-TAR (register) ↗2022-07-12
XIV-1169/2022
Įstatymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202304359		e-TAR (register) ↗2023-08-07
XIV-1170/2022
Įstatymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202304361		e-TAR (register) ↗2024-04-23
XIV-1372/2022
Įstatymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202401905		e-TAR (register) ↗2024-04-24
XIV-1697/2022
Įstatymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202300002		e-TAR (register) ↗2023-08-08
XIV-1698/2022
Įstatymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202300003		e-TAR (register) ↗2023-02-08
O3E-252/2023
Įsakymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202304097		e-TAR (register) ↗2023-08-07
O3E-254/2023
Įsakymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202304096		e-TAR (register) ↗2023-08-07
XIV-1825/2023
Įstatymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202401904		e-TAR (register) ↗2024-04-24
XIV-1876/2023
Įstatymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202302354		e-TAR (register) ↗2023-08-09
1-265/2023
Įsakymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202304641		e-TAR (register) ↗2023-09-04
1-266/2023
Įsakymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202304642		e-TAR (register) ↗2023-09-04
1-313/2023
Įsakymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202305153		e-TAR (register) ↗2023-09-25
1V-151/2023
Įsakymas · EUR-Lex: 72018L2001LTU_202401912		e-TAR (register) ↗2024-04-25

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