European Commission publishes First CPR Working Plan 2026–2029 (COM(2025) 772) outlining rollout of harmonised specifications that will operationalise environmental sustainability declarations (EPD/EN 15804-based)

The European Commission published the First CPR Working Plan for 2026–2029 (COM(2025) 772 final). The Working Plan is an implementation roadmap under the revised Construction Products Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2024/3110) describing how harmonised technical specifications will be developed/updated and made mandatory via implementing acts. For EPD/ISO 14025/EN 15804 stakeholders, this is a key compliance-planning signal because it frames how ‘environmental sustainability characteristics’ will be integrated into construction-product documentation and declarations through the CPR acquis process and related standardisation work, which is expected to rely on EN 15804-based methods for environmental performance declaration. Compliance teams should use this to anticipate timing and prioritisation of product-family standard updates that will drive when EPD-derived data becomes required within CPR declarations for specific construction product categories.