The EEW is based on the "Call for an Energy-Efficiency-Watch" of several Members of Parliament:
- The cross-party and cross-country initiative “Energy Intelligent Europe”, composed of the Members of the European Parliament:
- Anders Wijkman (PPE)
- Mechtild Rothe (PSE)
- Fiona Hall (ALDE)
- Claude Turmes (Greens)
- Umberto Guidoni (GUE)
- and several national Parliamentarians:
- Jorge Moreira da Silva (Portugal, PPE)
- Alan Whitehead (UK, Labour)
- Pavel Gantar (Slovenia, Liberal Democrats)
- Boris van der Ham (Netherlands, Lib. Dem.)
- Anne Grete Holmsgaard (Denmark, Greens)
- Ulrich Kelber (Germany, SPD)