The European Parliament approved, on Thursday 9 November (449 votes in favour, 102 against and 41 abstentions), the Commission’s proposal to extend the scope of European Regulation (EU) 691/2011 on European environmental economic accounts, with the goal of better meeting the statistical needs of EU environmental policy (see EUROPE 12990/10).
This proposal for a regulation aims to add water, ecosystems, forests and environmental subsidies to the current environmental economic accounts in order to enrich Eurostat’s statistics.
Parliament stresses that the EU must align all its legislation and processes with its long-term environmental and climate objectives, as set out in the European Green Deal, and strengthens the proposal.
In particular, it calls for the Commission to publish, no later than one year after the entry into force of the regulation, a study analysing declarative data on climate change mitigation, and proposes the creation of a module dedicated to this subject to ensure that Member States provide all the declarative values necessary to achieve the objectives of the European Green Deal, the European Climate Law, the ‘Fit for 55’ package and the ‘Net-Zero Industry Act’. The study should be accompanied by an indicative timetable for the development of the modules, according to Parliament.
To see the text voted on: https://aeur.eu/f/9is (Original version in French by Aminata Niang)