European Union (Planning and Development) (Renewable Energy) Regulations 2025 Circular CEPP 2/2025

This circular provides clarification to planning authorities, the Commission and other key stakeholders of certain issues related to the introduction of S.I. 274 of 2025, which transposed certain articles of the Renewable Energy Directive III (The Directive)1 into the planning code. Following the issuance on 15 August of Circular CEPP 1/2025 a number of issues came to the Department’s attention which are discussed in the document below.