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REPORT (COM(2025)1006 – C100342/2025 – 2025/0399(COD))

On the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on guidelines for trans-European energy infrastructure, amending Regulations (EU) 2019/942, (EU) 2019/943 and (EU) 2024/1789 and repealing Regulation (EU) 2022/869

A-10-2026-0231

Committee on Industry, Research and Energy · Rapporteur: Tsvetelina Penkova

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Parliament's amended version of the Commission proposal for a regulation on guidelines for trans-European energy infrastructure. It sets rules for selecting projects of common interest and projects of mutual interest on a Union list, for faster permit-granting, for cross-border cost allocation and for Union financial assistance. It adds new infrastructure categories for protection and resilience of critical network elements, grid-enhancing technologies and digital solutions, and keeps 13 priority corridors and thematic areas. It requires a Union strategic scenario, infrastructure needs identification reports, a needs-matching process and an energy system-wide cost-benefit analysis to guide planning. It sets permit-granting time limits, a single national competent authority, public participation rules and exemptions from certain environmental assessments for electricity projects in National Development Plans. It requires transmission system operators to set aside 30 % of certain congestion rents for projects reducing interconnector congestion, and allows Union financial assistance for studies and works. It amends Regulations (EU) 2019/942, (EU) 2019/943 and (EU) 2024/1789 and repeals Regulation (EU) 2022/869.

Committee position. The Committee on Industry, Research and Energy adopts Parliament's position at first reading with amendments to the Commission proposal. The report strengthens evidence-based planning, affordability, storage and flexibility, transparency, resilience and oversight of congestion income use.

Key points

  1. The regulation lays down guidelines for priority corridors and areas of trans-European energy infrastructure, covering electricity, offshore grids, hydrogen, electrolysers, carbon dioxide and smart grids.
  2. It provides for identification of projects of common interest and projects of mutual interest on a Union list, established every two years, with the first list adopted by 30 November 2029.
  3. It adds infrastructure categories for equipment protecting critical network elements, for grid-enhancing technologies and digital solutions, and for cybersecurity and physical protection.
  4. Projects must meet general and specific criteria on sustainability, market integration, security of supply, competition and network security, assessed by regional Groups.
  5. The Commission develops a Union strategic scenario, and the ENTSO for Electricity and ENNOH draw up infrastructure needs identification reports; the Agency approves a binding methodology.
  6. Where needs are unmatched, the Commission launches a targeted process and, if needed, a call for proposals open to any third party capable of becoming a project promoter.
  7. Each Member State must designate one national competent authority as sole point of contact, and for cross-border projects the Member States jointly appoint a unique point of contact.
  8. The permit-granting process has an optional pre-application procedure of up to 18 months and a mandatory statutory procedure of up to 12 months, with a combined maximum of 36 months.
  9. Member States may exempt electricity projects in National Development Plans from environmental impact assessments and Natura 2000 assessments until climate neutrality is achieved.
  10. National regulatory authorities decide cross-border cost allocation, with at least 10 % of estimated benefits triggering participation; the Agency decides if they fail to agree within six months.
  11. TSOs must set aside 30 % of congestion rents not allocated to capacity availability or offshore compensation for projects reducing interconnector congestion.
  12. Projects of common interest are eligible for Union financial assistance for studies and, under conditions, for works; hydrogen projects may benefit from an EU-level de-risking mechanism.

Who is affected

  • Project promoters, transmission and distribution system operators, hydrogen network operators and investors developing projects on the Union list.
  • Member States, which must designate a single national competent authority and set up digital permitting platforms.
  • National regulatory authorities, which decide cross-border cost allocation and grant investment incentives.
  • Transmission system operators, which must set aside 30 % of certain congestion rents and cooperate on network planning.
  • Cyprus and Malta, which keep one interconnection each as a project of common interest until interconnected or 31 December 2029.

Figures and deadlines

  • 42.5 % renewable energy in the Union's energy mix by 2030, aiming for 45 %.
  • 11.7 % reduction of Union final energy consumption by 2030 compared to 2020 projections.
  • 90 % reduction in net greenhouse gas emissions by 2040 compared to 1990 levels.
  • 41 of 88 GW of cross-border electricity needs for 2030 remain unaddressed; 108 GW needed by 2040.
  • 32 % share of electricity in final energy consumption by 2030 as reference; indicative 46 % by 2040.
  • At least 350 GW of offshore renewable generation installed.
  • 30 % of congestion rents not allocated to certain priority objectives to be set aside.
  • EUR 730 billion of investments for distribution grids by 2040; 40 % of the Union's distribution grid is more than 40 years old.

Legal basis: Article 294(2) and Article 172 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.