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MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION (C(2026)4666 – 2026/2819(DEA))

On the Commission delegated regulation of 9 July 2026 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2024/3012 of the European Parliament and of the Council by establishing the certification methodologies for carbon farming activities

B-10-2026-0471

on behalf of the S&D Group · Rapporteur: Tiemo Wölken

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Parliament's motion for a resolution objects to the Commission delegated regulation of 9 July 2026 setting certification methodologies for carbon farming under Regulation (EU) 2024/3012. It finds the methodologies breach basic principles of that regulation, fall short of the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism and undermine voluntary carbon market best practice and science. It instructs its President to notify the Commission that the delegated regulation cannot enter into force and to forward the resolution to the Council and member states.

Key points

  1. Parliament objects to the delegated regulation and states that it cannot enter into force.
  2. It says the methodologies exclude all direct and indirect associated greenhouse gas emissions over the lifecycle, such as indirect land-use change and livestock emissions.
  3. It finds this conflicts with Article 4(2), point (a)(iii), of Regulation (EU) 2024/3012 and falls short of international standards on indirect land-use change.
  4. It criticises letting operators choose between models, measurements, proxies and default factors without requiring the most conservative approach.
  5. It objects to the derogation from the financial additionality incentive test for existing projects, saying funding would flow to projects that did not depend on the framework.
  6. It notes the methodologies do not provide a common practice test as a precondition for certification.
  7. It criticises unusually low risk rates, a 15 % cap for agricultural activities on mineral soils, and no risk assessment at all for peatlands.
  8. It says the peatland rewetting methodology prescribes no liability mechanism and assumes all achieved emission reductions are permanent.
  9. It finds only one practice in an activity need generate co-benefits, not the activity as a whole, departing from Article 7(2) of Regulation (EU) 2024/3012.
  10. It criticises allowing compliance with sustainability criteria and co-benefits to be assessed only qualitatively, based on literature, with no quantitative indicators.
  11. It says the methodologies include no safeguards against land speculation, contrary to Article 8(3) of Regulation (EU) 2024/3012.
  12. It concludes the methodologies do not respect basic principles of Regulation (EU) 2024/3012, fail Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism standards and undermine best practice and science.

Who is affected

  • Operators or groups of operators carrying out carbon farming activities, who would be certified under the methodologies.
  • The Commission, which is notified that the delegated regulation cannot enter into force.
  • The Council and member state governments and parliaments, which receive the resolution.
  • Rural communities, which the text says may face negative effects from competition for land.

Figures and deadlines

  • 15 % — cap on the risk rate for agricultural activities on mineral soils under the methodologies.

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