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MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION (C(2025)04674 – 2025/2809(DEA))

On the Commission delegated regulation of 8 July 2025 supplementing Directive (EU) 2024/1788 of the European Parliament and of the Council by specifying a methodology for assessing greenhouse gas emissions savings from low-carbon fuels

B-10-2025-0464

· Rapporteur: Paolo Borchia, Isabella Tovaglieri, Raffaele Stancanelli, Silvia Sardone, Roberto Vannacci, Anna Maria Cisint, Klara Dostalova, Ondřej Knotek, Tomáš Kubín, Jana Nagyová, Julie Rechagneux, Aleksandar Nikolic, Mélanie Disdier, Mireia Borrás Pabón, Jorge Buxadé Villalba, Jorge Martín Frías, Juan Carlos Girauta Vidal, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Hermann Tertsch, António Tânger Corrêa, Antonín Staněk, Nikola Bartůšek, Gerolf Annemans, Barbara Bonte, Tom Vandendriessche, Christophe Bay, MarieLuce BrasierClain, Marie Dauchy, Valérie Deloge, AnneSophie Frigout, Angéline Furet, JeanPaul Garraud, Catherine Griset, France Jamet, Virginie Joron, Fabrice Leggeri, Julien Leonardelli, Thierry Mariani, Mathilde Androuët, Philippe Olivier, Gilles Pennelle, Pascale Piera, Pierre Pimpie, André Rougé, PierreRomain Thionnet, Rody Tolassy, Matthieu Valet, Alexandre Varaut, Séverine Werbrouck

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Parliament objects to the Commission delegated regulation specifying a methodology for assessing greenhouse gas emissions savings from low-carbon fuels, arguing it is restrictive and unworkable. It calls on the Commission to submit a new delegated regulation by the third quarter of 2026 with a simpler methodology, recognizing all production pathways, and removing barriers to nuclear-based hydrogen. It also calls for flexibility in methane emissions accounting and an investor-protection mechanism.

Key points

  1. Objects to the Commission delegated regulation on low-carbon fuels methodology.
  2. Supports expanding low-carbon hydrogen production and distribution; calls for allowing low-carbon hydrogen to meet RFNBO targets for industry and transport.
  3. Considers the proposed delegated act would make low-carbon hydrogen production nearly impossible and undermine the hydrogen market.
  4. Draws attention to ECA Special Report 11/2024 recommending realistic assessments and considering regional and sectoral specificities.
  5. Regrets risks from complex regulatory framework and bureaucratic burdens on companies.
  6. Notes negative impact on manufacturers due to monthly reporting of grid emissions intensity, even when using low-carbon sources.
  7. Stresses technological neutrality; current framework appears to favour green hydrogen over low-carbon, disadvantaging Member States with nuclear power.
  8. Underlines that nuclear PPAs are assessed only after July 2028; calls for enhanced flexibility in methane emissions accounting.
  9. Calls for new delegated regulation by Q3 2026 ensuring clear methodology, recognizing all production pathways, withdrawing delay for nuclear PPAs, permitting reliance on nuclear PPAs, allowing project-specific methane data, and establishing grandfathering clause.

Who is affected

  • Low-carbon hydrogen producers and investors, who face regulatory uncertainty and administrative burdens.
  • Manufacturers, who would have to report monthly grid emissions intensity.
  • Member States with nuclear power in their energy mix, which may face discriminatory conditions.

Figures and deadlines

  • Third quarter of 2026: deadline for Commission to submit new delegated regulation.
  • July 2028: date after which nuclear PPAs are assessed.

Legal basis: Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union