Christian Ernhede

The EU Council is seeking longer approvals for pesticide active substances, alongside extended phase-out periods for banned substances, under an agreed negotiating stance on the proposed food and feed omnibus package.

MEPs from S&D and Renew have warned against slowing emission reductions after 2030 for sectors covered by the EU’s carbon market, as the European Commission maintains that the trajectory remains “proportionate” given broader competitiveness concerns.

The energy commissioner claimed in responses to lawmakers today that the EU executive is “not considering” reopening the bloc’s methane regulation, after confirming plans last week to postpone the implementation of the legislation.

The energy commissioner has maintained that the bloc’s Methane Regulation should remain unchanged, while detailing plans for a narrow proposal to postpone obligations on fossil fuel importers by one year.

Fossil fuel importers should have an extra 29 months to demonstrate that their monitoring of methane emissions is equivalent to EU standards, the European Commission has proposed.

Industry should have an extra 12 months to report on the methane intensity of fossil fuel production, the European Commission has proposed.

The European Parliament’s centre right group has said it will seek to extend a delay to monitoring and reporting rules under the EU Methane Regulation, after the European Commission tabled a proposal to postpone its implementation by one year.

Lawmakers in the European Parliament’s environment committee have reached a tentative political deal on amendments to a proposal to tweak EU environmental permitting rules, although centrist groups are split on key provisions.

The European Commission is mulling novel ways to boost EU hydrogen supplies, including from “emerging sources” such as geological reserves, as it draws up a new strategy to move past ambitious targets set under the REPowerEU plan.

The conservative rapporteur for the revision of the EU emissions trading system (ETS) is hoping that mainstream political groups will back a compromise deal, as far-right MEPs set their sights on a full rejection of the proposal.