In a letter to the European Commission on Tuesday 18 January, the chairs of the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON), Irene Tinagli (S&D, Italy), and the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI), Pascal Canfin (Renew Europe, France), have expressed their concern about the procedure followed by the institution regarding the draft complementary delegated act on the European Union’s taxonomy.
This highly controversial draft delegated act provides for the inclusion of fossil gas and nuclear energy in the taxonomy as “transitional” activities and under certain conditions (see EUROPE 12860/1).
On 31 December 2021, it was sent solely to national delegations of EU countries and to those stakeholders who are members of the ‘Platform on Sustainable Finance’ , which only gave them 12 days to provide their comments. The consultation period was then extended to 21 January (see EUROPE 12865/9).
Speaking on behalf of “a majority of ECON and ENVI coordinators”, Ms Tinagli and Mr Canfin deplored the lack of consultation on the draft text and the lack of an impact assessment.
They have therefore called on the Commission to launch a public consultation, as was done for the first delegated act on taxonomy (see EUROPE 12703/2) and to allow “sufficient time for reactions from the relevant parties”.
They have also called for a meeting to be held in the near future between the European Commission and their parliamentary committees to discuss the issue.
See the letter: https://bit.ly/3tH14OI (Original version in French by Damien Genicot)