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Energy efficiency has been progressively brought to the forefront to the EU’s decarbonization efforts. The EU’s efforts to develop an energy efficiency framework have traditionally relied on energy end-use reduction, but nowadays it seeks to promote a more integrated approach to energy efficiency in its energy policy framework. A key to this end is, in particular, the ’energy efficiency first’ principle that was first introduced by the EU’s Energy Union framework. The principle is envisaged as the fundamental principle on which the EU’s energy system should be built.