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DRAFT REPORT (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

ENVI-PR-787998

Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety · Rapporteur: Susana Solís Pérez

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This draft report sets out Parliament's amendments to a proposed directive simplifying requirements in Directives 2008/98/EC, 2010/75/EU, (EU) 2015/2193 and (EU) 2024/1785. It eases extended producer responsibility reporting, environmental management system rules and permit conditions, and changes livestock rearing thresholds. It deletes the chemicals inventory, EMS audit and transformation plan requirements, postpones EMS preparation to 2030, and extends the transposition deadline for Directive (EU) 2024/1785 to 1 July 2027. It calls on the Commission to propose a centralised digital reporting mechanism for cross-border producers and a dedicated legislative proposal on emissions from livestock rearing. It adjusts emission limit value rules for hydrogen and oxy-fuel combustion, indirect water discharges and BAT-AEL ranges, and allows limited extensions for deep industrial transformation projects.

Committee position. The rapporteur welcomes the Commission's simplification effort and builds upon it, going further on environmental management systems, flexibility of permit conditions and administrative burden for operators already subject to equivalent third-party certified standards.

Key points

  1. Parliament adopts its first-reading position on the Commission proposal to simplify requirements and reduce administrative burden in four directives.
  2. A new recital states the Commission must present a dedicated legislative proposal on emissions from livestock rearing activities without further delay.
  3. The Commission should propose, in the forthcoming Circular Economy Act, a centralised digital mechanism letting producers report in all member states through a single submission, operational by 1 January 2029.
  4. The obligation for suppliers to submit data to the database on hazardous substances in products should not be continued; already reported data stays with the European Chemicals Agency.
  5. Several installations under the same operator or company may be covered by a single environmental management system, and compliance with EMAS or ISO 14001 is deemed to satisfy Article 14a requirements.
  6. The requirements for a chemicals inventory, a risk assessment and substitution analysis, for EMS auditing, and for an indicative transformation plan are deleted.
  7. The deadline for operators to prepare and implement an EMS is postponed from 2027 to 2030.
  8. The deadline for transposing Directive (EU) 2024/1785 is postponed by one year to 1 July 2027; provisions relieving existing obligations apply from that date.
  9. Extended producer responsibility reporting systems must be fully electronic and interoperable, with producers submitting data at most once every 12 months for each full preceding calendar year.
  10. Emission limit values should be set at technically, reasonable and economically achievable levels within the full BAT-AEL range, and general binding rules may be applied.
  11. Emission limit values for NOx are not applicable to combustion plants firing gas with more than 20% hydrogen by volume, subject to annual NOx load control.
  12. The eight-year period for deep industrial transformation may be extended in exceptional cases, and the qualifier 'extremely' is removed from the definition of substantial greenhouse gas reduction.

Who is affected

  • Producers placing products on the market in more than one member state, who face fragmented national reporting systems.
  • Industrial operators, who gain flexibility on environmental management systems, permit conditions and emission limit values.
  • Suppliers of products containing hazardous substances, who would no longer submit data to the database.
  • Pig and poultry farms, whose capacity thresholds and permitting rules are changed.
  • Member states and competent authorities, which must transpose the rules and set permit conditions.

Figures and deadlines

  • 1 January 2029: deadline for the centralised digital reporting mechanism to be operational.
  • once every 12 months: maximum frequency for extended producer responsibility reporting.
  • 2030: postponed deadline for operators to prepare and implement an EMS.
  • 1 July 2027: postponed deadline for transposing Directive (EU) 2024/1785.
  • more than 20% (by volume) of hydrogen: threshold above which NOx emission limit values do not apply to combustion plants firing gas.
  • 5% by volume: hydrogen content above which the competent authority adjusts NOx values if hydrogen increase is the sole or primary cause of non-compliance.
  • eight years: period for deep industrial transformation that may be extended in exceptional cases.
  • 2 000 places for production pigs over 30 kg, or more than 750 places for sows: thresholds in Annex Ia point 1.

Legal basis: Article 294(2) and Article 192(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.