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DRAFT OPINION (COM(2025)0986 – C100336/2025 – 2025/0394(COD))

On the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directives 2008/98/EC, 2010/75/EU, (EU) 2015/2193 and (EU) 2024/1785 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards simplification of some requirements and reduction of administrative burden

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Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development · Rapporteur: Christine Singer

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The Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development gives its draft opinion on the Commission proposal to simplify requirements and cut administrative burden in EU waste and industrial emissions rules. It proposes amendments to Directive 2010/75/EU that restore fixed capacity thresholds for pig and poultry rearing, delete the livestock unit definition and the registration regime, and keep the permit-based system. It limits aggregation of nearby installations to genuinely integrated units with shared systems, and deletes the provision that could bring cattle rearing into scope. It postpones the Commission's implementing act on uniform operating rules to 1 September 2027, requires an impact assessment, and makes those rules fully harmonised. It deletes the transitional timelines based on livestock unit thresholds and allows monitoring by measurement or calculation methods.

Committee position. The committee proposes to amend the Commission proposal by restoring fixed capacity thresholds for pig and poultry rearing, deleting the livestock unit definition and registration regime, limiting aggregation, keeping cattle out of scope, postponing the implementing act to 1 September 2027, requiring an impact assessment, and making the uniform operating rules fully harmonised.

Key points

  1. The title of Directive 2010/75/EU is changed to refer to industrial emissions rather than industrial and livestock rearing emissions.
  2. The definition of 'livestock unit' in Article 3 is deleted because fixed capacity thresholds are restored in Annex Ia.
  3. Aggregation of installations as a single unit is allowed only where there is a direct and functional interconnection of housing units and shared key operational systems, with comparable cumulative impacts; mere common ownership or proximity is not enough.
  4. The permit-based system for pig and poultry rearing is kept, and references to registration are removed from Articles 70c and 70g.
  5. Permit applications no longer need to include stocking density in livestock units per hectare.
  6. Monitoring data may be obtained by measurement methods or by calculation methods such as emission factors, without the 'where not practicable' condition.
  7. The Commission must adopt the implementing act establishing uniform conditions for operating rules by 1 September 2027 instead of 1 September 2026.
  8. Before adopting that implementing act, the Commission must assess its economic, financial, social and environmental impacts and make the assessment public before consultation.
  9. Member States must apply the uniform operating rules as fully harmonised requirements and may not adopt stricter national measures unless required by binding Union law.
  10. Article 73(3)(a) is deleted to avoid bringing cattle rearing into the scope of the Directive.
  11. The transitional timelines in Article 82(14) based on livestock unit thresholds are deleted.
  12. Annex Ia is amended to set fixed capacity thresholds: more than 2 000 places for production pigs over 30 kg or more than 750 places for sows, and more than 40 000 places for poultry.

Who is affected

  • Pig and poultry rearing installations, which face fixed capacity thresholds and a permit-based system.
  • Member States, which must apply uniform operating rules as fully harmonised requirements without stricter national measures.
  • The Commission, which must adopt the implementing act by 1 September 2027 and carry out an impact assessment.
  • Cattle rearing, which is kept out of the Directive's scope by the deletion of Article 73(3)(a).

Figures and deadlines

  • '1 September 2027' — deadline for the Commission to adopt the implementing act on uniform operating rules.
  • 'more than 2 000 places for production pigs over 30 kg' — fixed capacity threshold in Annex Ia.
  • 'more than 750 places for sows' — fixed capacity threshold in Annex Ia.
  • 'more than 40 000 places' — fixed capacity threshold for poultry rearing in Annex Ia.