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Omnibus I · EU ETS revision · Industrial Accelerator Act · CBAM extension · Net-Zero Industry Act · Critical Raw Materials Act · Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation
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COM(2025) 81, 2025/0045 (COD)
Omnibus I — CSRD / CSDDD / Taxonomy simplification
35 measures · 14 added · 21 removed
AUD-01No longer required to adopt delegated-act standards for 'reasonable assurance' of sustainability reporting by 1 October 2028European CommissionSimplificationRPT-01Include in the management report information necessary to understand the undertaking's sustainability impacts and how sustainability matters affect its development, performance and positionLarge undertakings that exceed 1000 employees on average during the financial year · BusinessesSimplificationRPT-02Include in the consolidated management report information necessary to understand the group's sustainability impacts and how sustainability matters affect its development, performance and positionParent undertakings of a large group that exceed 1000 employees on average, on a consolidated basis · BusinessesSimplificationRPT-03Do not seek from value-chain undertakings with 1000 or fewer employees any sustainability information beyond the voluntary reporting standard, except sustainability information commonly shared sector-wideLarge undertakings preparing individual or consolidated sustainability statements · BusinessesRequirementRPT-04Exempted from individual sustainability reporting, consolidated sustainability reporting and single-electronic-format/markup dutiesThe European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) and financial products under Art. 2, point (12)(b) and (f) of Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 · BusinessesSimplificationRPT-05Commission's empowerment to adopt sector-specific sustainability reporting standards by delegated act is removed (no sector-specific ESRS will be developed)European CommissionSimplificationRPT-06Not required to mark up (digitally tag) sustainability reporting until the Commission adopts a Delegated Regulation specifying the markup formatUndertakings subject to Art. 19a and Art. 29a sustainability reporting · BusinessesSimplificationRPT-07Collective responsibility of administrative, management and supervisory body members for the management report's digitalisation is limited to ensuring its publication in the single electronic formatMembers of an undertaking's administrative, management and supervisory bodies · BusinessesSimplificationRPT-08Prepare the sustainability assurance opinion in full respect of the obligation not to seek excess value-chain information from undertakings with 1000 or fewer employeesStatutory auditors and assurance providers verifying sustainability reporting · BusinessesRequirementRPT-09Third-country group sustainability reporting duty on EU subsidiaries/branches now applies only above raised turnover thresholdsEU subsidiaries and branches of third-country undertakings · BusinessesSimplificationTAX-01Eligible to use a more flexible opt-in Taxonomy disclosure regime instead of full Article 8 Taxonomy Regulation reportingLarge undertakings (over 1000 employees) with net turnover not exceeding EUR 450 000 000 · BusinessesSimplificationTAX-02Disclose the proportion of turnover and capital expenditure associated with Taxonomy-aligned (or partially-aligned) economic activities, if claiming alignment; operating-expenditure disclosure is optionalLarge undertakings under the opt-in Taxonomy regime that claim Taxonomy-aligned or partially-aligned activities · BusinessesRequirementSTD-01Adopt a delegated act providing sustainability reporting standards for voluntary use by out-of-scope (under 1000 employee) undertakingsEuropean CommissionRequirementDD-01Definition of 'stakeholders' who must be consulted is narrowed to workers/their representatives and individuals or communities directly affected by the company's, its subsidiaries', or its business partners' products, services and operationsCompanies subject to due diligence duties under Directive (EU) 2024/1760 · BusinessesSimplificationDD-02Do not introduce national due-diligence rules that diverge from Articles 6, 8, 10(1)-(5), 11(1)-(6) and 14 of the DirectiveMember States · GovernmentsRequirementDD-03Limit the in-depth impact assessment, as a general rule, to your own operations, your subsidiaries and your direct business partnersCompanies subject to due diligence duties under Directive (EU) 2024/1760 · BusinessesSimplificationDD-04Carry out an in-depth assessment of an indirect business partner where plausible information suggests an adverse impact there, or where an indirect structure is used to circumvent the direct-partner-only ruleCompanies subject to due diligence duties under Directive (EU) 2024/1760 · BusinessesRequirementDD-05Seek contractual assurances from direct business partners that they will cascade the company's code of conduct to their own business partnersCompanies subject to due diligence duties under Directive (EU) 2024/1760 · BusinessesRequirementDD-06Do not seek more information than the voluntary standard from direct business partners with fewer than 500 employees when mapping the chain of activities, unless additional information is necessary and cannot reasonably be obtained elsewhereCompanies subject to due diligence duties under Directive (EU) 2024/1760 · BusinessesRequirementDD-07Suspend (rather than terminate) the business relationship as a last resort where adverse impacts cannot be prevented or mitigated, after assessing that suspension is not manifestly more harmful, with reasonable notice to the business partnerCompanies subject to due diligence duties under Directive (EU) 2024/1760 · BusinessesSimplificationDD-08Consult relevant stakeholders only at the specified stages of the due diligence process (two previously-listed stages removed)Companies subject to due diligence duties under Directive (EU) 2024/1760 · BusinessesSimplificationDD-09Reassess whether due-diligence measures remain adequate and effective at least every 5 years, or ad hoc after a significant change or reasonable grounds for doubtCompanies subject to due diligence duties under Directive (EU) 2024/1760 · BusinessesSimplificationDD-10Make available the general due-diligence guidelines, in three phased setsEuropean CommissionRequirementDD-11Adopt a transition plan for climate change mitigation, including implementing actions planned and taken, aimed at aligning the business model and strategy with the 1.5 degC pathway and EU climate-neutrality targetsCompanies referred to in Art. 2(1)(a)-(c) and Art. 2(2)(a)-(c) of Directive (EU) 2024/1760 · BusinessesSimplificationPEN-01Issue guidance, jointly with Member States, to help supervisory authorities determine penalty levelsEuropean CommissionRequirementPEN-02Do not set a maximum limit on pecuniary penalties in national law that would prevent supervisory authorities imposing penalties in line with Art. 27(1)-(2)Member States · GovernmentsRequirementLIA-01EU-wide harmonised civil liability regime for due-diligence failures is removed from the DirectiveCompanies subject to due diligence duties under Directive (EU) 2024/1760 · BusinessesSimplificationLIA-02Ensure that persons harmed by a company's due-diligence failure have a right to full compensation, without overcompensationMember States · GovernmentsRequirementLIA-03Specific requirement to provide for representative actions on behalf of injured parties is deletedMember States · GovernmentsSimplificationLIA-04Requirement that liability rules be of overriding mandatory application, where the applicable law is not a Member State's own law, is deletedMember States · GovernmentsSimplificationLIA-05A company's civil liability for due-diligence damages is expressly without prejudice to the separate civil liability of its subsidiaries or of its direct and indirect business partnersCompanies subject to due diligence duties under Directive (EU) 2024/1760 · BusinessesRequirementRPT-10Sustainability-reporting coordination measures apply to credit institutions and insurance undertakings only once they exceed 1000 employees on average (previously also caught smaller large undertakings and listed SMEs in these categories)Credit institutions and insurance undertakings · BusinessesSimplificationPEN-00Requirement to base pecuniary penalties on a company's net worldwide turnover, and the former minimum turnover-based cap floor, is removedMember States · GovernmentsSimplificationGOV-01Obligation to report by 26 July 2026 on the need for due-diligence rules tailored to financial services is deletedEuropean CommissionSimplificationGOV-02Bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive, and communicate the text to the CommissionMember States · GovernmentsRequirement
COM(2026) 616 final, 2026/0212 (COD)
EU ETS revision
51 measures · 38 added · 13 removed
SCP-01Member State must offer an operator whose installation falls below the 20MW combustion threshold (after reducing emissions via process changes) the option to remain voluntarily in the EU ETS for up to two further five-year allocation periods.Member States (competent authorities) / operators of installations falling below the 20MW threshold · GovernmentsRequirementSCP-02CO2 transport infrastructure becomes a regulated 'installation' under the EU ETS, bringing its operator fully into the permitting, monitoring, reporting, verification and surrender regime.Operators of CO2 transport infrastructure (e.g. pipelines) · BusinessesRequirementMRV-01Competent authorities of the Member State where CO2 is captured (or the first Member State of transit) must approve monitoring plans and verify emission reports for CO2 transport infrastructure, exchanging information with transit/reception Member States.Operators of CO2 transport infrastructure / Member State competent authorities · BusinessesRequirementPRM-01If a GHG emissions permit is granted for the first time, withdrawn, and re-granted within the same five-year free-allocation period, the installation is barred from re-entering the EU ETS until the following five-year period.Installations whose permit is withdrawn and re-granted mid five-year period · BusinessesRequirementFRE-01Operators applying for free allocation must establish, publish and submit an 'Invest in EU decarbonisation plan' committing to decarbonisation investments equal to the value of 100% of their free allocation for the relevant five-year period.Operators applying for free allocation · BusinessesRequirementFRE-02Free allocation is split into tranches: 80% is paid annually once the decarbonisation plan is verified and approved; the remaining 20% is withheld until the competent authority confirms, within two years after the five-year period, that the required investments were actually implemented and delivered significant emissions reductions.Operators applying for free allocation · BusinessesRequirementFRE-03If a free-allocation recipient relocates or transfers its production/economic activity outside the EU, the Member State must claw back (or deduct from future allocations) the free allowances already received for that period.Operators who relocate production outside the EU after receiving free allocation · BusinessesRequirementFRE-04Draw up an Invest in EU decarbonisation plan and pass the additional verification gating the final 20% tranche of free allocation.Operators with an installation-level project already awarded IDB/Investment Booster/Innovation Fund support · BusinessesSimplificationFRE-05Draw up an Invest in EU decarbonisation plan and satisfy the 80/20 tranching conditionality attached to free allocation.Top-10%-most-efficient, zero-/low-carbon, and voluntarily-remaining installations · BusinessesSimplificationFRE-06Operators may pool multiple installations under a joint decarbonisation investment agreement to satisfy the mandatory decarbonisation-investment volume jointly rather than installation-by-installation.Operators of installations applying for free allocation · BusinessesEntitlementFRE-07Installations that received more free allowances than they were entitled to under the free allocation rules must return the excess to the competent authority, which instructs the registry to transfer them back.Operators who received excess free allocation · BusinessesRequirementFRE-08The carbon-leakage sector/subsector determination governing eligibility for maximum free allocation now runs through 2040 instead of expiring in 2030, extending continued free-allocation eligibility for exposed sectors by a decade.Sectors and subsectors deemed exposed to carbon leakage risk · BusinessesOpportunityFRE-09District heating installations get a slower phase-out of free allocation, reaching zero only in 2040 instead of 2030 as applies to other 'other sectors'.District heating installations · BusinessesOpportunityETSB-ALC-05Sectors and subsectors not deemed exposed to carbon leakage are cut to 30% of the Article 10a free-allocation quantity, and that residue is phased out in equal annual steps after 2026 to reach zero in 2030.Operators in sectors and subsectors considered able to pass on allowance costs in product prices (all 'other sectors' except district heating) · BusinessesSupport cutCBAM-01Producers of CBAM-covered goods see their free allocation shrink on a fixed annual CBAM-factor schedule, falling to 0% from 2038, as CBAM replaces free allocation as the carbon-leakage instrument for those goods.Operators of installations producing goods covered by the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism · BusinessesSimplificationCBAM-02When new product categories are added to the CBAM goods list, their free allocation also starts phasing down on a set CBAM-factor schedule (97.9% then 95.8%, then the general schedule from 2028).Operators producing goods newly added to CBAM Annex I · BusinessesSimplificationFND-01The Union will fund and operate a facility purchasing up to 260 Mt of high-quality international carbon credits (2036-2040) that count toward ETS sectors' climate ambition, easing reliance on domestic abatement alone.Operators, aircraft operators and shipping companies covered by Annex I activities · BusinessesOpportunityFND-02The Commission will use proceeds from auctioning 250 million (plus up to 10 million top-up) earmarked allowances (2031-2040) to purchase certified domestic permanent carbon removal units from BioCCS and DACCS projects, paying on delivery of certified units and prioritising cost-effective, high-integrity projects.Operators of BioCCS and DACCS carbon removal projects · BusinessesOpportunityFND-03Grants and other support (e.g. blended finance) from the Innovation Fund, financed by auctioning 200 million allowances from reduced free allocation, are available via open competitive calls for projects scaling up low-/zero-carbon and carbon-negative products, processes and technologies across all Member States.Businesses/projects in sectors listed in Annex I and III, including CCU, CCS, DACCS, maritime/aviation decarbonisation and clean-technology manufacturing · BusinessesOpportunityFND-04The Industrial Decarbonisation Bank funds capital investment (including grid connection, storage and flexibility costs) and operating expenditure for emission reductions/removals at industrial installations, financed by 400 million allowances (2028-2030) plus a further 400 million (2031-2040), with a reserved share for lower-GDP Member States.Operators of stationary industrial installations (including waste incineration) carrying out or substituting Annex I industrial production processes · BusinessesOpportunityFND-05Pre-selected industrial decarbonisation projects receive allowances valued at a fixed carbon premium per tonne of CO2 avoided, paid out periodically for up to 10 years once operations start and emissions avoidance is independently verified.Pre-selected industrial decarbonisation project developers · BusinessesOpportunityFND-06Industrial decarbonisation projects can win Carbon Contracts for Difference or carbon premia through competitive bidding, compensating the gap between the strike price and the prevailing carbon price for up to 10 years and de-risking investment.Industrial decarbonisation project developers winning competitive bidding · BusinessesOpportunityFND-07Lower-income Member States (GDP per capita below 75% of the EU average) continue receiving Modernisation Fund financing for 2031-2040, funded by auctioning 2% (plus a further 0.5% channelled to Industrial Decarbonisation Bank projects) of the Union-wide allowance quantity, for energy modernisation, efficiency, industrial decarbonisation and electrification investments, including small-scale projects.Beneficiary Member States (GDP per capita below 75% of EU average) and investment recipients therein · GovernmentsOpportunityMST-01Beneficiary Member States must uphold rule-of-law principles throughout Modernisation Fund implementation; breaches affecting sound financial management can trigger suspension of disbursement decisions or of already-adopted disbursements.Beneficiary Member States receiving Modernisation Fund support · GovernmentsRequirementMST-02Member States must earmark at least 50% of their ETS auction revenue (excluding indirect-cost compensation) for a defined list of decarbonisation priority purposes (clean energy/grids, industrial decarbonisation, maritime/aviation decarbonisation, modal shift, municipal waste hierarchy measures, circularity, lead markets for low-carbon products, R&D).Member States · GovernmentsRequirementFND-08ETS-sector businesses become eligible recipients of Member-State-channelled ETS auction revenue for decarbonisation investment support across a defined menu of purposes: topping up EU-level support mechanisms, clean energy/grid buildout around industrial clusters, industrial decarbonisation (electrification, CCUS, CO2 transport network), maritime and aviation decarbonisation, modal shift, municipal waste hierarchy measures, circularity, and lead markets for low-carbon products such as green steel.Businesses in ETS sectors (industrial, maritime, aviation) and waste management authorities · BusinessesOpportunityMST-03Member States must actually disburse ETS auction revenues earmarked for decarbonisation purposes within three years of generating them.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementMST-04Spain, Cyprus, Malta and Slovenia must dedicate their additional solidarity-share auction allowances specifically to the Article 10(3) decarbonisation priority purposes.Spain, Cyprus, Malta, Slovenia (Member States) · GovernmentsRequirementFND-09Electro-intensive industrial sectors exposed to carbon leakage risk can receive state-aid-compliant financial compensation from Member States for indirect ETS costs passed through in electricity prices, funded from up to 25% of that Member State's auction revenue.Sectors/subsectors exposed to genuine carbon leakage risk from indirect (electricity) ETS costs · BusinessesOpportunityFND-10New entrant installations can draw free allowances from a dedicated reserve pool, topped up with 200 million allowances released from the Market Stability Reserve and 50 million allowances freed by the CBAM-factor free-allocation reduction.New entrant installations applying for free allocation · BusinessesOpportunitySHIP-01Shipping companies can apply annually for free allowances (from a 110 million allowance reserve, 2028-2040) to cover 55-90% of the price differential between fossil marine fuel and sustainable maritime fuels, or 90% of the extra cost of zero-emission propulsion technology, with bonus percentage points for EU-sourced feedstock, EU-built propulsion technology, and island voyages.Shipping companies using sustainable maritime fuels or zero-emission propulsion technologies · BusinessesOpportunitySHIP-020.9 million allowances per year (until 2035) are set aside to fund maritime-sector decarbonisation projects in least developed countries and small island developing states.Least developed countries and small island developing states (maritime sector) · GovernmentsOpportunitySHIP-03Surrender allowances equal to full verified emissions from long inbound voyages, including the transhipped share.Shipping companies operating containerships of 10,000 TEU and above · BusinessesSimplificationSHIP-04Surrender allowances for containers transhipped via listed neighbouring non-EU ports, once the temporary exclusion lapses.Shipping companies performing container transhipment via listed neighbouring ports · BusinessesSimplificationAVI-01Aircraft operators can apply annually for free allowances covering 30-100% of the price differential between fossil kerosene and eligible sustainable aviation fuels (with a new electricity category from 1 January 2027), plus long-term contract reservations and a contrail-reduction bonus of up to 0.12% of verified emissions.Aircraft operators using sustainable aviation fuel or electricity · BusinessesOpportunityAVI-02A further 110 million allowances (on top of the existing Art. 3c(6) reserve) are set aside until 2040 to fund sustainable-aviation-fuel and electricity price-differential support for aircraft operators, becoming available for all EEA-departing flights from 1 January 2029.Aircraft operators · BusinessesOpportunityAVI-03Aircraft operators temporarily face surrender obligations on nearly all non-EEA international flights during 2027-2028 (with a small-emitter carve-out below 10,000 tonnes/year), before scope narrows from 2029-2032 to only long-haul flights over 5,000 km from Frankfurt.Aircraft operators flying to/from non-EEA states · BusinessesRequirementAVI-04Surrender allowances under Art. 12(3) for emissions from flights to or from listed LDC/SIDS states.Aircraft operators flying to/from listed LDC/SIDS states · BusinessesSimplificationETSB-AVI-06Comply with the surrender, monitoring, reporting and registry requirements of the EU ETS for emissions from flights between an aerodrome in an outermost region and another aerodrome in the same Member State.Aircraft operators on flights between an outermost region and the same Member State · BusinessesSimplificationCCS-01Surrender allowances for emissions that are captured and transported for permanent storage in a permitted facility.Operators capturing and permanently storing CO2 emissions · BusinessesSimplificationCCS-02Surrender allowances for CO2 captured and utilised so as to become permanently chemically bound in a product.Operators using carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) technology · BusinessesSimplificationCCS-03Operators, aircraft operators and shipping companies will be able to offset their fossil CO2 emissions using their own certified domestic permanent carbon removal units (from storage of biogenic emissions), reducing the number of allowances they must surrender.Operators, aircraft operators and shipping companies generating certified permanent carbon removal units · BusinessesEntitlementWST-01Waste incineration and co-incineration installations enter the EU ETS from 2031, with surrender obligations phased in gradually: 25% of verified emissions in 2031, rising to 50% (2032), 75% (2033), and 100% from 2034.Waste incineration and waste co-incineration installation operators · BusinessesRequirementWST-02Surrender allowances for emissions from waste incineration and co-incineration installations in outermost regions.Waste incineration and waste co-incineration installations in outermost regions · BusinessesSimplificationWST-03Surrender allowances for the emissions of a given reference year from waste incineration and co-incineration installations.Waste incineration and co-incineration installations in qualifying Member States · BusinessesSimplificationMST-05A Member State seeking the waste-incineration opt-out must notify the Commission by 31 July 2029 with evidence of eligibility and indicate the amount of allowances it will cancel from its own auction quota.Member States seeking the waste incineration opt-out · GovernmentsRequirementMRV-02Even where a waste incineration installation is granted the surrender opt-out, it must still fully comply with the standard EU ETS monitoring, reporting, verification and accreditation obligations.Waste incineration/co-incineration installations benefiting from the Art. 12b opt-out · BusinessesRequirementMSR-01The Market Stability Reserve's intake/release thresholds (833m/947m allowances in circulation for intake; 300m/400m for release) tighten by 4% each year from 2029, automatically reducing the volume of allowances Member States can auction as more allowances are diverted into or held in the reserve.Member States (auctioning allowances) / European Commission (administering the MSR) · GovernmentsRequirementTRANS-01Member States must adopt, publish and notify to the Commission their national transposition measures for this Directive by 31 December 2028 (with an earlier 31 December 2027 deadline for specific permitting-related provisions), applying the general measures from 1 January 2029.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementETSSVC-01Third countries that introduce their own absolute-cap carbon pricing for aviation/maritime emissions (with EU technical/administrative support under 'ETS as a service') receive the full auction revenue generated from the EU-side allowances covering the corresponding share of those emissions.Third countries introducing linked-style emissions pricing for aviation/maritime with EU support · GovernmentsOpportunityETSB-MRV-02Aircraft operators must cancel their notified quantity of CORSIA-eligible units by fixed statutory deadlines for each CORSIA compliance periodAircraft operators subject to CORSIA offsetting · BusinessesRequirement
COM(2026) 100 final, 2026/0068 (COD)
Industrial Accelerator Act
65 measures · 64 added · 1 removed
PRM-01Establish a national single access point through which project promoters submit the single application for industrial manufacturing projects, using the European Business Wallet.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementPRM-02Establish a single permit-granting procedure based on a single application covering all permits required for industrial manufacturing projects, coordinated by a designated competent authority.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementPRM-03Acknowledge completeness of a permit application, or request missing information, within a fixed deadline; a further deadline applies to a second request for missing information.Member States' competent authorities · GovernmentsRequirementPRM-04Automatic classification as a 'strategic project' contributing to resilience and decarbonisation or resource efficiency, granting access to the priority/streamlined treatment of the future Environmental Assessment Regulation.Promoters of energy-intensive industry decarbonisation projects · BusinessesEntitlementPRM-05Publish, via the Single Digital Gateway national single points of contact, a new information category on permit-granting procedures for industrial manufacturing projects, replacing separate entries.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementPRM-07Remove the separate 'Critical raw materials projects' and 'Net-zero technology manufacturing projects' rows from the Single Digital Gateway Annex II catalogue, consolidating them into the unified business-permission entry.Member States · GovernmentsSimplificationPRM-06Automatic 'strategic project' status for all net-zero technology manufacturing projects, granting streamlined treatment under the future Environmental Assessment Regulation.Promoters of net-zero technology manufacturing projects · BusinessesEntitlementAA-01Designate at least one industrial manufacturing acceleration area to cluster industrial manufacturing projects in one or more strategic sectors listed in Annex I.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementAA-02Notify the Commission of the designation of an industrial manufacturing acceleration area.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementAA-03Conduct, and review, a comprehensive analysis of the energy needs of each acceleration area and the required energy infrastructure capacity.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementAA-04aPrepare and issue an aggregated baseline permit authorising industrial activities within each designated acceleration area, covering permits required for projects located there.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementAA-04bProject promoters within an acceleration area only need to obtain additional permits that fall outside the scope of the aggregated baseline permit, cutting the permitting burden.Industrial manufacturing project promoters located in acceleration areas · BusinessesEntitlementIAAB-AA-06Automatic 'strategic project' status for every industrial manufacturing project sited in an acceleration area, granting priority and accelerated treatment under the future Environmental Assessment Regulation.Promoters of industrial manufacturing projects located within an acceleration area · BusinessesEntitlementLM-01Have emissions and other data used to calculate a product's greenhouse gas intensity verified by accredited verifiers before it can be classified/labelled as low-carbon.Manufacturers seeking a greenhouse-gas-intensity classification for industrial products · BusinessesRequirementLM-02Exclude tenders from economic operators owned/controlled by entities in third countries that have no international agreement guaranteeing access, for the lead-market procurement procedures.Contracting authorities and contracting entities · GovernmentsRequirementLM-03aApply the Union-origin and low-carbon requirements laid down in Annex II Part I (steel, concrete/mortar, aluminium) and Annex III Part I (electric vehicles) in covered public procurement.Contracting authorities and contracting entities · GovernmentsRequirementLM-03bGuaranteed minimum demand share in EU public procurement: at least 25% of steel volume must be low-carbon, at least 5% of concrete/mortar (incl. clinker/cement) must be low-carbon and EU-origin, and at least 25% of aluminium must be low-carbon and EU-origin.Producers of low-carbon and/or Union-origin steel, concrete/mortar and aluminium · BusinessesOpportunityLM-03cGuaranteed demand in EU public procurement of electric vehicles for manufacturers meeting Union-origin thresholds (Union assembly, ≥70% EU ex-works vehicle content excl. battery, and EU-origin battery components).Manufacturers of Union-origin PEV, OVC-HEV and FCV vehicles and their battery suppliers · BusinessesOpportunityLM-04May waive the Union-origin/low-carbon procurement requirements where only one supplier exists, no suitable tenders were received, or compliance would be disproportionately costly.Contracting authorities and contracting entities · GovernmentsRequirementLM-05Require suppliers to submit a self-declaration or equivalent document demonstrating compliance with the Union-origin/low-carbon procurement requirements.Suppliers of steel, concrete/mortar, aluminium and EV products under EU public contracts · BusinessesRequirementLM-06aDesign public support schemes so that the Union-origin/low-carbon requirements of Annex II Part II and Annex III Part II apply to at least 45% of the national budget for Annex II Part II-type schemes and 100% of the budget for Annex III Part II-type schemes.Member States, regional/local authorities and bodies governed by public law · GovernmentsRequirementLM-06bCreated demand for low-carbon/EU-origin steel, concrete/mortar and aluminium via publicly-funded renovation, construction and infrastructure support schemes conditioned on using at least 25%/5%/25% qualifying material.Producers of low-carbon and/or Union-origin steel, concrete/mortar and aluminium · BusinessesOpportunityLM-06cHouseholds and companies remain eligible for public construction/renovation and motor-vehicle support schemes provided the project uses the qualifying share of low-carbon/Union-origin steel, concrete/mortar or aluminium.Households and companies applying for building renovation/construction or motor vehicle support schemes · HouseholdsOpportunityIAAB-LM-07bCorporate cars and vans meeting the Annex III Part II Union-origin criteria qualify as 'made in the European Union' for the purposes of financial support for corporate-fleet uptake under the clean corporate vehicles Regulation.EU vehicle manufacturers supplying corporate cars and vans · BusinessesOpportunityLM-08May still run support schemes that do not meet the Annex II/III Part II requirements where compliance would cause significant delay or disproportionate cost.Member States / competent authorities administering public support schemes · GovernmentsRequirementLM-10Provide an accompanying document certifying a vehicle's compliance with the Union-origin requirements when issuing its certificate of conformity.Vehicle manufacturers · BusinessesRequirementLM-12Apply minimum mandatory environmental sustainability requirements set out in an implementing act when procuring listed net-zero technologies.Contracting authorities and contracting entities · GovernmentsRequirementLM-13Not supply more than 50% of the value of the contracted net-zero technology product from any single individual third country for the duration of the contract.Winning tenderers supplying net-zero technology under public contracts · BusinessesRequirementLM-14Exclude tenders from economic operators owned/controlled by entities in third countries without a guaranteeing international agreement, for net-zero technology procurement covered by the new Annex II.Contracting authorities and contracting entities · GovernmentsRequirementLM-15aApply the Union-origin requirements laid down in the new Annex II when procuring listed net-zero technologies (battery storage, solar PV, heat pumps, wind, nuclear).Contracting authorities and contracting entities · GovernmentsRequirementLM-15bGuaranteed demand in EU net-zero technology public procurement for manufacturers whose battery energy storage systems (and, from year 3, battery cells/BMS/one more component) originate in the Union.EU manufacturers of battery energy storage systems and components · BusinessesOpportunityLM-16Require suppliers of in-scope net-zero technology products to submit a self-declaration or equivalent document demonstrating compliance with the origin requirements.Suppliers of net-zero technologies under EU public contracts · BusinessesRequirementLM-18aGive each net-zero technology pre-qualification/award criterion a minimum weight of 5% and a combined weight of 15-30% of the auction's award criteria.Member States designing net-zero technology auctions · GovernmentsRequirementLM-18bGuaranteed application of origin/resilience award criteria to at least 40% of the volume auctioned per year per Member State (or 8 GW/year), and to 100% of volume for the high-risk-supplier and origin sub-criteria, creating a protected share of auctioned capacity for compliant bidders.EU-based bidders in net-zero technology auctions meeting origin/resilience criteria · BusinessesOpportunityLM-19Design auctions involving control systems, SCADA, remote access systems or firewalls so that suppliers identified as 'high-risk' under the future Cyber Security Act instrument are excluded from supply, design, management or software-update processes.Member States designing net-zero technology auctions · GovernmentsRequirementLM-20aEnsure support schemes for net-zero technologies include the Union-origin requirements laid down in the new Annex II.Member States, regional/local authorities and bodies governed by public law · GovernmentsRequirementLM-20bCreated demand for EU-origin solar PV inverters and cells via household/company support schemes, since only Union-origin PV components make projects eligible for the scheme or additional financial compensation.EU manufacturers of solar PV inverters and cells · BusinessesOpportunityIAAB-NZT-06bCreated demand for EU-origin electrolysers: renewable-hydrogen auctions must require that the electrolyser, its stacks and one further main specific component originate in the Union.EU manufacturers of electrolysers, stacks and main specific components · BusinessesOpportunityLM-21aCap any additional financial compensation granted under a net-zero technology support scheme at 15% of the final product's cost for the consumer (transport/installation included), or 20% for energy-poverty schemes.Member States / bodies operating net-zero technology support schemes · GovernmentsRequirementLM-21bHouseholds (including those in energy poverty) purchasing eligible net-zero technologies (e.g. battery storage, solar PV, heat pumps) under a support scheme can receive additional financial compensation of up to 15% of the product's cost -- up to 20% for households in energy poverty -- provided the product meets the Union-origin requirements.Households receiving support for net-zero technology purchases, including those in energy poverty · HouseholdsOpportunityLM-22Design net-zero technology support schemes involving control systems/SCADA/remote access/firewalls so that beneficiaries are eligible only where high-risk suppliers (per the future Cyber Security Act instrument) are excluded from key processes.Member States designing net-zero technology support schemes · GovernmentsRequirementLM-23aEnsure Union-origin requirements from the new Annex II are met when supporting the construction or manufacturing of net-zero technology final products.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementLM-23bCreated demand for EU-origin hydrogen electrolysers: Member State manufacturing-capacity support schemes for electrolysers must require the electrolyser (and, from year 3, a second additional main component) to originate in the Union.EU manufacturers of hydrogen electrolysers and their main components · BusinessesOpportunityLM-26aEnsure that only vehicles complying with the Union-origin requirements are eligible under public schemes supporting the purchase, lease, rent or hire-purchase of new electric vehicles.Member States, regional/local authorities and bodies governed by public law administering vehicle purchase/lease support schemes · GovernmentsRequirementLM-26bHouseholds and companies purchasing, leasing, renting or hire-purchasing electric vehicles remain eligible for public purchase/lease support schemes and any linked financial support for corporate vehicles, provided the vehicle is Union-origin compliant.Households and companies purchasing or leasing electric vehicles under public support schemes · HouseholdsOpportunityLM-26cGuaranteed demand for EU vehicle and battery manufacturers meeting the 70% EU ex-works content threshold (excluding battery) or the EU battery-cell content criterion, since only such vehicles qualify for publicly-supported purchase/lease schemes.EU vehicle manufacturers and battery suppliers meeting Union-origin criteria · BusinessesOpportunitySC-01Small zero-emission vehicles meeting the Union-assembly and origin criteria qualify as 'made in the EU' for the purposes of the small zero-emission vehicle super-credit mechanism under the vehicle CO2 emission performance standards.Manufacturers of small zero-emission vehicles made in the Union · BusinessesOpportunitySC-02Steel meeting the low-carbon and Union-origin definitions qualifies as 'low-carbon steel made in the EU', usable by vehicle manufacturers to compensate remaining CO2 emissions under the vehicle CO2 standards regime -- creating a compliance-driven market for qualifying steel.Producers of low-carbon steel of Union origin · BusinessesOpportunityFDI-01Foreign direct investments above the value/market-concentration threshold in the emerging strategic sectors may not be implemented unless explicitly approved by the Investment Authority or Commission.Foreign investors in battery, electric vehicle, solar PV and critical-raw-material sectors above the threshold · Foreign investorsRequirementFDI-02Designate an Investment Authority to review foreign direct investments and implement the Chapter, with adequate resources and legal/administrative means.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementFDI-03Only approve foreign direct investments that fulfil at least four of six value-added criteria (ownership cap, joint-venture structuring, IP licensing, R&D spending, Union-worker share, sourcing strategy).Foreign investors seeking Investment Authority approval · Foreign investorsRequirementFDI-04Comply with the mandatory Union-worker condition (at least 50% of the workforce being Union workers) regardless of which other conditions are met -- this condition alone cannot be substituted.Foreign investorsRequirementFDI-05Notify any planned direct investment within scope to the Investment Authority of the Member State where the target/asset is located, providing all information needed for the review.Foreign investorsRequirementFDI-06Decide on the admissibility of an FDI notification and, following any Commission opinion, issue a reasoned approval/rejection decision within fixed deadlines.Investment Authorities · GovernmentsRequirementFDI-07Regularly report to the Investment Authority on continued compliance with the approval conditions.Approved foreign investors · Foreign investorsRequirementFDI-08Face a penalty payment of at least 5% of average daily aggregate turnover (or, for a private-person investor, at least 5% of the investment value) for failing to comply with notification requirements.Foreign investorsRequirementFDI-09Monitor global manufacturing capacity for each emerging strategic sector and publish updated information on the most recent available year.European CommissionRequirementFDI-10Face a Commission penalty of up to 5% of average daily turnover (or, for a private-person investor, up to 5% of the investment value) for providing false or misleading information, or withholding required information, in an FDI notification under Commission review.Foreign investors whose investment is reviewed by the Commission · Foreign investorsRequirementFDI-11Empowered to adopt delegated acts extending the list of emerging strategic sectors subject to FDI screening to further economic-security-critical sectors (e.g. additional net-zero technologies, nuclear fuel cycle, electric propulsion), excluding digital/AI/quantum/semiconductors.European CommissionRequirementGOV-01Carry out a periodic evaluation of the Regulation and its contribution to the internal market's functioning, covering resilience, economic security, decarbonisation and the industrialisation objective.European CommissionRequirementGOV-02Assess the necessity of amending Chapters III (strategic value chains) and IV (FDI) and consider extending Union-origin requirements to further economic-security-critical sectors, notably shipbuilding and rail rolling stock.European CommissionRequirementGOV-03Lay down effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalty rules for infringements of the Regulation and notify the Commission of those rules without delay.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementGOV-04Carry out a comprehensive assessment of the application of the net-zero technology auction criteria and their effect on the accelerated deployment of renewable energy technologies.European CommissionRequirementGOV-05Submit to the Commission a report setting out data on the application of net-zero technology exemptions and related requirements.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementIAAB-CHEM-01Prospect of Union-level demand-side measures promoting production, sale and use of Union-origin substances/mixtures from sustainable carbon sourcesChemical industry manufacturers using sustainable carbon sources · BusinessesOpportunity
COM(2025) 989 final, 2025/0419 (COD)
CBAM extension — downstream goods and anti-circumvention
61 measures · 47 added · 14 removed
SCP-01CBAM applies to processed products made from Annex I goods under inward processing where they are re-exported to Norway or Iceland, bringing those consignments into the CBAM regime.Importers and authorised CBAM declarants of processed products re-exported to Norway or Iceland · BusinessesRequirementSCP-02Comply with the CBAM regime for goods originating in third countries that were previously released for free circulation in the customs territory of an EFTA State that has incorporated the CBAM.Customs declarants importing goods previously released for free circulation in a CBAM-integrated EFTA State · BusinessesSimplificationSCP-03Bear responsibility for having documentation proving prior release for free circulation in an EFTA State available at the moment the customs declaration is lodged.Customs declarants relying on the EFTA prior-free-circulation exemption · BusinessesRequirementSCP-04A new 'Combined metal products' category enters CBAM scope, pulling downstream steel- and aluminium-containing manufactured goods into the embedded-emissions declaration and certificate-surrender regime for the first time.Importers and authorised CBAM declarants of downstream steel- and aluminium-containing goods · BusinessesRequirementSCP-05Prefabricated buildings containing steel or aluminium are named in CBAM scope, carrying the embedded-emissions declaration and surrender duty into construction products.Importers of prefabricated buildings containing steel or aluminium · BusinessesRequirementSCP-06Comply with CBAM for a good whose inclusion in Annex I is causing severe harm to the Union internal market through serious and unforeseen price effects.Importers of goods withdrawn from Annex I under the safeguard · BusinessesSimplificationDECL-01Include in the CBAM declaration evidence that the imported goods were actually produced at the declared installation and at the declared time of production.Authorised CBAM declarants for goods flagged for supply-chain traceability risk · BusinessesRequirementDECL-02Where a goods/origin combination is designated high-risk for abusive practices and actual emissions are claimed, prove in the declaration that the abuse risk has not materialised.Authorised CBAM declarants claiming actual emissions for high-risk goods/origin combinations · BusinessesRequirementDECL-03Report total embedded emissions per tonne of goods (or per MWh for electricity), and have them verified where actual emissions are supplied by the operator through the CBAM registry.Authorised CBAM declarants · BusinessesRequirementDECL-04Identify in the authorisation application, by EORI or national identification number, every person on whose behalf the applicant acts.Applicants for authorised CBAM declarant status acting on behalf of others · BusinessesRequirementDECL-05Produce, on request during review of the CBAM declaration, evidence that the imported goods were produced at the installation named in the declaration.Authorised CBAM declarants determining embedded emissions on actual emissions · BusinessesRequirementDECL-06Keep the full underlying records required to calculate embedded emissions, rather than the information actually disclosed to the declarant under Art. 10(7).Authorised CBAM declarants · BusinessesSimplificationCALC-01Count the embedded emissions of Annex VIII input materials (precursors) when determining the embedded emissions of the goods.Operators and authorised CBAM declarants calculating embedded emissions · BusinessesRequirementCALC-02Apply the complex-goods calculation counting precursors from both Annex I and the new Annex VIII, excluding those from exempted third countries.Operators of installations producing complex CBAM goods · BusinessesRequirementCALC-03For iron and steel, aluminium and combined metal goods, derive the precursor mass from the content of input goods in the finished product rather than from a directly measured mass.Operators of installations producing iron and steel, aluminium and combined metal goods · BusinessesRequirementCALC-04Treat ferrous waste and scrap, other than post-consumer scrap, as a precursor whose embedded emissions count towards the goods.Operators and declarants using ferrous scrap as an input material · BusinessesRequirementCALC-05Treat aluminium waste and scrap, other than post-consumer scrap, as a precursor whose embedded emissions count towards the goods.Operators and declarants using aluminium scrap as an input material · BusinessesRequirementCALC-06Bear the mark-up added to default values when declaring downstream goods with complex supply chains.Importers and declarants of listed downstream goods using default values · BusinessesSimplificationANTI-01Refrain from practices whose purpose is to gain a benefit by unduly avoiding, wholly or partly, the CBAM financial liability.All actors in the CBAM supply chain · BusinessesRequirementANTI-02Refrain from artificially adjusting supply chains so that goods qualify for lower default values; doing so is circumvention.Importers, declarants and operators in CBAM supply chains · BusinessesRequirementANTI-03Monitor the CBAM's internal-market impact, warn importers, declarants, competent and customs authorities of high-risk goods/origin combinations, and legislate the conditions for using actual emissions for them.European Commission · GovernmentsRequirementANTI-04Adopt the high-risk delegated acts within three months of finding sufficient evidence of a high risk of abusive practices.European Commission · GovernmentsRequirementFIN-01Provide a bank guarantee payable at first demand, sized on the certificates that would have to be surrendered, where the competent authority finds financial capacity is not demonstrated.Applicants and authorised CBAM declarants failing to demonstrate financial capacity · BusinessesRequirementFIN-02Leave the guarantee in place until after 30 September of the second surrender year, and for longer where the competent authority justifies an extension.Authorised CBAM declarants that have provided an Art. 17(5a) guarantee · BusinessesRequirementFIN-03From 2028, satisfy the quarterly certificate-holding requirement using only certificates bought in the same year, so certificates carried over from earlier years no longer count.Authorised CBAM declarants · BusinessesRequirementFIN-04Pay the CBAM certificate price as fixed by the fallback rules for weeks with no auction or a single auction.Authorised CBAM declarants purchasing CBAM certificates · BusinessesRequirementFIN-05Repurchase the excess CBAM certificates through the common central platform on behalf of the Member State where the authorised CBAM declarant is established.European Commission · GovernmentsSimplificationFIN-06Have the documentation evidencing a carbon price paid in a third country certified by a person independent from the authorised CBAM declarant AS WELL AS from that country's authorities.Authorised CBAM declarants claiming a carbon price paid in a third country · BusinessesSimplificationFIN-07Find a certifying person meeting the independence test without the benefit of an express route through national accreditation.Authorised CBAM declarants claiming a carbon price paid in a third country · BusinessesSimplificationFIN-08Apply the Commission's conversion rules when turning a carbon price paid abroad into a reduction in CBAM certificates, including the evidence of actual payment and any deduction of Paris Agreement Article 6 carbon credits.Authorised CBAM declarants claiming a carbon price paid in a third country · BusinessesRequirementELEC-01Accept default values for imported electricity that reflect fossil generation only, regardless of the exporting country's actual generation mix.Importers and authorised CBAM declarants of electricity · BusinessesSimplificationELEC-02Take the alternative default value from the CO2 emission factor, rather than from the emission factor for electricity, when demonstrating that the exporting area's electricity is cleaner than the applicable default.Importers and authorised CBAM declarants of electricity from lower-carbon third countries · BusinessesSimplificationELEC-03Accept the standard default value for indirect emissions where the exporting country's actual electricity mix is cleaner than that default.Importers of goods with indirect emissions from lower-carbon third countries · BusinessesSimplificationELEC-04Hold a power purchase agreement directly with the third-country electricity producer, with no intermediary in the chain, in order to claim actual emissions.Importers and authorised CBAM declarants of electricity claiming actual emissions · BusinessesSimplificationELEC-05Demonstrate that the generating installation is directly connected to the Union transmission system, or that no physical network congestion existed at the time of export, in order to claim actual emissions for imported electricity.Importers and authorised CBAM declarants of electricity claiming actual emissions · BusinessesSimplificationELEC-06Firmly nominate the claimed electricity to allocated interconnection capacity across origin, destination and transit, matching production within the same hour, and forgo the claim where capacity is allocated implicitly.Importers and authorised CBAM declarants of electricity claiming actual emissions · BusinessesRequirementELEC-07Conclude, and then honour, a Memorandum of Understanding setting the timeline for the Art. 2(7) exemption and for putting an EU ETS-equivalent carbon price on electricity generation.Third countries seeking electricity market coupling with the Union, and the Commission · GovernmentsRequirementELEC-08Assess third-country listing for the electricity exemption against the Memorandum of Understanding timeline as well as the paragraph 7 conditions.European Commission · GovernmentsRequirementDATA-01An operator may pass verified emissions and carbon-price information not only to an authorised CBAM declarant but to another operator, so verified data can move along the supply chain.Operators of installations in third countries registered in the CBAM registry · BusinessesEntitlementDATA-02An operator may limit what it hands the declarant to a summary of the registered information, and the declarant is entitled to rely on that summary to discharge its Article 8 verification obligation.Operators of third-country installations and the authorised CBAM declarants they supply · BusinessesEntitlementDATA-03Remain responsible for surrendering the correct number of CBAM certificates even where the declaration was built on information disclosed by the operator.Authorised CBAM declarants relying on operator-disclosed information · BusinessesRequirementDATA-04Ensure that the conditions laid down for using actual emissions are met for the relevant combinations of goods and origins.Operators of installations registered in the CBAM registry · BusinessesRequirementDATA-05A third-country operator may have its installation registered in the CBAM registry not only to support actual-emissions verification but to establish the carbon price it has paid at home.Operators of installations located in third countries · BusinessesEntitlementCUST-01Communicate import data to the Commission automatically, now including bills of discharge, re-export declarations and equivalent customs documentation, and the importer's identity where there is no EORI number.Customs authorities of the Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCUST-02Accept that the CBAM account number entered in the customs declaration fixes which authorised CBAM declarant assumes the obligations for that consignment.Authorised CBAM declarants and importers · BusinessesRequirementCUST-03Verify, on a competent authority's request, the correctness or accuracy of communicated customs information.Customs authorities and the Commission · GovernmentsRequirementCUST-04Apply the material and chemical compositions that the Commission fixes by implementing act for Annex I goods.Importers and authorised CBAM declarants of Annex I goods · BusinessesRequirementVER-01Follow the verification procedures the Commission specifies by delegated act.Accredited verifiers of embedded emissions · BusinessesRequirementGOV-01Base the 2027 assessment due by 30 April 2027 on import data for the goods in both the existing and the newly extended Annex I.European Commission · GovernmentsRequirementGOV-02Report to Parliament and Council before 1 January 2028 and biennially thereafter on CBAM's operation, covering carbon leakage, internal-market and price effects, governance, circumvention practices, penalties and per-country emission intensity.European Commission · GovernmentsRequirementGOV-03State the material composition of each downstream good in the verification report.Accredited verifiers preparing CBAM verification reports · BusinessesRequirementGOV-04Set out in the verification report the quantities of each type of goods produced, the quantification of the installation's direct emissions, how those emissions are attributed across goods, and the energy and emissions flows not associated with those goods.Accredited verifiers preparing CBAM verification reports · BusinessesSimplificationGOV-05Publish the CBAM certificate price on the first working day of the following calendar week.European Commission · GovernmentsRequirementCBAMB-SCP-07Declare embedded emissions and surrender certificates for goods added to the existing 'Iron and steel' table -- agglomerated iron ore, stranded wire and cables, unplated welded grill and netting, springs, enamelled and other household articles, and other cast articles of iron or steel.Importers and authorised CBAM declarants of the newly listed iron and steel goods · BusinessesRequirementCBAMB-ELEC-09Use, as the emission factor for electricity, the weighted average CO2 intensity of all electricity produced in the geographic area, in place of a factor representing the emission intensity of the electricity consumed in producing the goods.Importers and authorised CBAM declarants of electricity and of goods carrying embedded indirect emissions · BusinessesRequirementCBAMB-ELEC-10Hold a power purchase agreement that involves the physical delivery of electricity, not merely a direct contractual purchase, in order to claim actual embedded emissions for imported electricity.Importers and authorised CBAM declarants of electricity claiming actual emissions · BusinessesRequirementCBAMB-SCP-08A third country or territory may be added to or removed from the Annex III exemption lists by delegated act, including as a consequence of CBAM incorporation into the EEA Agreement, and under urgency where imperative grounds require it.European Commission; importers of goods originating in third countries listed in Annex III · GovernmentsRequirementCBAMB-VER-02Use a verifier accredited by a Member State national accreditation body, there being no route to recognition of a third-country accreditation body.Authorised CBAM declarants and third-country operators procuring verification · GovernmentsSimplificationCBAMB-DECL-07Report, in the standard declaration format, the detail supporting each total -- per installation and per country of origin -- including the carbon price paid and the default carbon price for the purposes of Art. 9(4).Authorised CBAM declarants · BusinessesRequirementCBAMB-ANTI-05Designate, by implementing act, the goods or goods/origin combinations for which traceability evidence must accompany the declaration, and the type of evidence required.European Commission · GovernmentsRequirementCBAMB-CUST-05Communicate customs information at the scope, periodicity, timing and by the means the implementing acts prescribe, for the competent-authority flow under Art. 25(3) as well as the customs flow under Art. 25(2).Member State customs authorities and competent authorities · GovernmentsRequirement
Regulation (EU) 2024/1735, consolidated 17.08.2025
Net-Zero Industry Act
89 measures · 80 added · 9 removed
BEN-01Support net-zero manufacturing projects so that Union manufacturing capacity reaches at least 40% of the Union's annual deployment needs for net-zero technologies by 2030.The Commission and Member States · GovernmentsRequirementSPC-01Establish or designate one or more single points of contact responsible for facilitating and coordinating the permit-granting process for net-zero technology manufacturing projects.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementSPC-02Project promoters may file every document in the permit-granting process electronically, in any Member State.Promoters of net-zero technology manufacturing projects · BusinessesEntitlementSPC-03Re-run studies or re-obtain permits and authorisations already carried out or issued for the same project.Promoters of net-zero technology manufacturing projects · BusinessesSimplificationSPC-04Specify and hand to the single point of contact the requirements and the extent of the information that will be demanded of a project promoter, before the permit-granting process starts.Authorities involved in the permit-granting process · GovernmentsRequirementINF-01Publish online, centrally, the single points of contact, the permit-granting process, financing and investment services, funding possibilities and business support services.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementADM-01Provide administrative support to net-zero technology manufacturing projects, including help with compliance, with informing the public, and with the permit-granting process, with particular attention to SMEs.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementPRM-01Complete the permit-granting process for a net-zero technology manufacturing project within 12 months below 1 GW of yearly manufacturing capacity, or 18 months at 1 GW or more.Member State permit-granting authorities and single points of contact · GovernmentsRequirementPRM-02Acknowledge that a permit application is complete, or state exactly what is missing, within 45 days; a second request for information may be made within 30 days and may not open new subjects.Single points of contact · GovernmentsRequirementPRM-03Draw up a detailed schedule for the permit-granting process within two months of the application and publish it on a free-access website.Single points of contact · GovernmentsRequirementPRM-04A decarbonisation project spanning several facilities on one site may be split, by agreement with the single point of contact, into smaller projects so each fits the permitting time limits.Promoters of energy-intensive industry decarbonisation projects · BusinessesEntitlementPRM-05A promoter may obtain, before filing, a binding-in-practice scoping opinion on how detailed the environmental impact assessment report has to be, answered within 45 days.Promoters of net-zero technology manufacturing projects · BusinessesEntitlementENV-01Where two or more environmental assessment duties arise at once, run a coordinated or joint procedure that satisfies all of them.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementENV-02Issue the reasoned conclusion on the environmental impact assessment within 90 days of receiving all necessary information and completing consultations.Member State competent authorities · GovernmentsRequirementSP-01A manufacturing project meeting any one of the resilience, supply-chain or sustainability criteria is recognised as a net-zero strategic project, which carries the priority permitting track and the public-interest status of Art. 15.Promoters of net-zero technology manufacturing projects in the Union · BusinessesEntitlementSP-02File an application for strategic-project recognition containing evidence against the criteria, a business plan evaluating financial viability, and a draft timetable showing when the project contributes to the Union benchmark.Promoters applying for net-zero strategic project status · BusinessesRequirementSP-03Assess a strategic-project application within one month of completeness, request missing information once only, and give a reasoned decision to the promoter and the Platform.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementSP-04A rejected applicant may take the application to the Commission, which must assess it within 20 working days.Promoters whose strategic-project application was rejected · BusinessesEntitlementSP-05Projects already backed by the ETS Innovation Fund, an IPCEI, a European Hydrogen Valley or the Hydrogen Bank get strategic-project status on a written request, with no formal application.Promoters of Innovation Fund, IPCEI, Hydrogen Valley and Hydrogen Bank backed manufacturing projects · BusinessesEntitlementSP-06Strategic-project status, and every right attached to it, is lost where the project changes substantially, stops meeting the criteria, or was recognised on incorrect information.Promoters of net-zero strategic projects · BusinessesEntitlement withdrawnSP-07Strategic projects count as being in the public interest, and may be treated as of overriding public interest, in the derogations of the Water, Birds and Habitats Directives and of nature-restoration law.Promoters of net-zero strategic projects · BusinessesEntitlementSP-08A recognised strategic project is given the highest national significance status the Member State's own law provides, and is treated accordingly in permitting, environmental assessment and spatial planning.Promoters of net-zero strategic projects · BusinessesEntitlementSP-09Litigation and appeals touching a strategic project are treated as urgent wherever national permitting law has an urgency procedure -- with the promoter required to take part in it.Promoters of net-zero strategic projects · BusinessesEntitlementPRM-06Complete the permit-granting process for a net-zero strategic project within 9 months below 1 GW, 12 months at 1 GW or more, and 18 months for the permits to operate a CO2 storage site.Member State permit-granting authorities and single points of contact · GovernmentsRequirementVAL-01Accompany any designation of a net-zero Acceleration Valley with a plan carrying at least four support schemes: infrastructure, private investment, reskilling, and online information.Member States designating net-zero Acceleration Valleys · GovernmentsRequirementVAL-02Siting a manufacturing project in a designated Valley confers the public-interest status -- and the possible overriding public interest -- in the environmental derogations, without the project having to be recognised as strategic.Promoters of net-zero technology manufacturing projects sited in a Valley · BusinessesEntitlementFIN-01A strategic-project promoter may call the Platform in to work through how to close the project's financing, across private sources, the EIB Group and other IFIs, national instruments and Union programmes.Promoters of net-zero strategic projects · BusinessesEntitlementCO2-01Publish, on a non-reliance basis, the geological data on decommissioned production sites -- and any economic assessment of the cost of enabling CO2 injection -- covering whether the site can safely and permanently store CO2 and what transport it would need.Current and former holders of hydrocarbon authorisations under Directive 94/22/EC · BusinessesRequirementCO2-02Deliver an individual share of the Union's 50 Mt/year CO2 injection capacity target by 2030, calculated pro-rata on the entity's share of Union crude oil and natural gas production over 2020-2023, as permitted capacity available to the market.Authorised oil and gas producers above the de minimis production threshold · BusinessesRequirementCO2-03Submit a plan to the Commission confirming the targeted volume of new CO2 storage and injection capacity to be commissioned by 2030, and the means and milestones for reaching it.Authorised oil and gas producers subject to an individual contribution · BusinessesRequirementCO2-04Report annually to the Commission on progress towards the individual CO2 injection-capacity contribution; the reports are published.Authorised oil and gas producers subject to an individual contribution · BusinessesRequirementCO2-05A producer may discharge its injection-capacity contribution by investing in or developing storage itself, by contracting with another obligated producer, or by contracting with third-party storage developers or investors.Authorised oil and gas producers subject to an individual contribution · BusinessesEntitlementCO2-06Deliver an individual CO2 injection-capacity contribution for production carried out in a Member State whose permitted, FID-reached storage capacity already exceeds the sum of those contributions.Authorised oil and gas producers active in a Member State that obtains the exemption · BusinessesSimplificationCO2-07Report annually, publicly, on CO2 capture, storage and transport projects in progress, the injection and storage capacity they need, national support measures, capture targets, and cross-border cooperation.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCO2-08Identify the authorised oil and gas producers on the territory and report their 2020-2023 crude oil and natural gas production volumes to the Commission.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCO2-09Lay down effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties for producers that infringe their CO2 injection-capacity obligations.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCO2-10Take the measures needed to open access to CO2 transport networks and storage sites for geological storage, as far as it is economically feasible or where a potential customer is willing to pay.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementPP-01Apply the Commission's minimum mandatory environmental sustainability requirements in every procurement whose subject matter includes solar, wind, battery, heat pump, hydrogen, biogas, CCS, grid, nuclear or sustainable-fuel technology, and in works contracts including it.Contracting authorities and contracting entities · GovernmentsRequirementPP-02Attach to net-zero works contracts at least one of: a social or employment contract-performance clause, a cybersecurity compliance requirement, or a hard on-time delivery obligation backed by a charge.Contracting authorities and contracting entities · GovernmentsRequirementPP-03aWhere the Commission has found a third country supplies more than 50% of a net-zero technology in the Union, hold supply from each such country below 50% of contract value -- for the technology and for its main components -- prove it on request, and pay at least 10% of the contract value if the cap is breached.Tenderers and successful contractors supplying net-zero technologies to public buyers · BusinessesRequirementPP-03bPublic demand is reserved away from a dominant third-country source: once the Commission finds one country above 50% of Union supply, no more than half the contract value of that technology, or of its main components, may come from that country -- the balance falls to Union and diversified producers.Union and diversified non-dominant producers of net-zero technologies and their main components · BusinessesOpportunityPP-04Apply the minimum environmental sustainability requirements where there is a single possible supplier, where a comparable earlier tender drew no suitable bids, or where compliance would cost disproportionately or break technical compatibility.Contracting authorities and contracting entities · GovernmentsSimplificationAUC-01Build responsible business conduct, cyber and data security, and delivery-capability pre-qualification into renewable energy auctions, plus pre-qualification or award criteria for the auction's sustainability and resilience contribution.Member States designing renewable energy auctions · GovernmentsRequirementAUC-02In renewable energy auctions, sustainability and resilience criteria carry at least 5% each and 15-30% combined of the award score, and the regime bites on at least 30% of the volume auctioned per Member State per year -- a priced advantage for producers outside a dominant third-country source.Manufacturers of renewable energy technologies and their main components supplying auction participants · BusinessesOpportunityAUC-03Apply the auction pre-qualification and award criteria where doing so would cost disproportionately -- presumed above a 15% cost difference per auction.Member States designing renewable energy auctions · GovernmentsSimplificationSCH-01Design any new or updated scheme that subsidises the purchase of net-zero technology final products so that it favours products with a high sustainability and resilience contribution, either by paying more for them or by making them the eligibility condition.Member States, regional and local authorities and bodies governed by public law running purchase-support schemes · GovernmentsRequirementSCH-02Buyers of net-zero technology final products that score on sustainability and resilience can be paid additional compensation of up to 5% of the product's cost -- up to 15% for households in energy poverty.Households, companies and consumers buying net-zero technology final products under a public support scheme · HouseholdsOpportunitySCH-03Any net-zero technology final product may apply to join a purchase-support scheme at any time, and the authority must assess it through an open, non-discriminatory and transparent process against a published pass mark.Manufacturers of net-zero technology final products · BusinessesEntitlementSCH-04Publish, on one free-access website, all information on purchase-support schemes for each relevant net-zero technology final product.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementSBX-01Establish or designate contact points for net-zero regulatory sandboxes, with one sole contact point responsible for each request.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementSBX-02Any company, organisation or consortium developing innovative net-zero technologies can require a Member State to set up a regulatory sandbox for it, if it meets the eligibility criteria and is selected.Companies, organisations and consortia developing innovative net-zero technologies · BusinessesEntitlementSBX-03Carry full liability under Union and national law for any material harm caused to third parties by testing inside the sandbox.Participants in net-zero regulatory sandboxes · BusinessesRequirementSME-01SMEs and start-ups get priority access to net-zero regulatory sandboxes, plus a dedicated communication channel and administrative support to take part.SMEs and start-ups developing innovative net-zero technologies · BusinessesEntitlementSKL-01Assess whether an Academy's learning programmes are equivalent to the national qualifications required for regulated professions of interest to the net-zero industry, publish the results, and report the reasons to the Platform where equivalence is not found or not sought.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementMON-01Collect and report, at least every three years, data on trade obstacles, market and price developments, manufacturing capacity and employment, SME participation, permit-granting outcomes and durations, sandboxes, and CO2 stored underground.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementSDG-01Carry net-zero technology manufacturing projects in the Single Digital Gateway: a new information area, the permit procedures and their outputs, and the single points of contact as assistance services.Member States and the Commission, through the Single Digital Gateway · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-BEN-02Raise the Union share of world production of net-zero technologies towards 15% by 2040, unless the added capacity would run significantly beyond Union deployment needs.The Commission and Member States · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-PRM-07Complete permitting within 18 months where the project's yearly manufacturing capacity is not measured in GW.Member State permit-granting authorities · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-PRM-08Where consultation shows the environmental impact assessment report needs supplementing, give the promoter at least 30 days to file the additional information; that period does not count against the permitting clock.Single points of contact · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-PRM-09Hold the permitting time limits for a project whose nature, complexity, location or size requires longer.Promoters of net-zero technology manufacturing and strategic projects · BusinessesSimplificationNZIAB-PRM-10Hold the permitting time limits for a project raising exceptional risks to the health and safety of workers or the general population.Promoters of net-zero technology manufacturing and strategic projects · BusinessesSimplificationNZIAB-ENV-03Hold public and authority consultation on the environmental report to between 30 and 85 days, extended to at most 90 in the cases Art. 6(4) of Directive 2011/92/EU covers.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-PLAN-01Consider making room for net-zero manufacturing projects, strategic projects and Valleys in zoning, spatial and land use plans -- giving priority to artificial, built, industrial and brownfield surfaces -- and put all relevant spatial planning data online.National, regional and local planning authorities · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-PLAN-02Combine the strategic environmental assessment and the habitats assessment where a plan makes room for net-zero projects, covering water bodies and, where relevant, the marine environment, without lengthening the Regulation's time limits.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-INF-02Publish every decision under the permitting section and Arts. 8, 15, 16 and 28 in an easily understandable form, with all decisions on one project on the same website.Member States and their authorities · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-SP-10A CO2 storage project sited in the Union that contributes to the Art. 20 injection objective and has applied for a storage permit is recognised as strategic -- and so is any capture project and any transport infrastructure project attached to it.Promoters of CO2 storage, capture and transport projects · BusinessesEntitlementNZIAB-SP-11A project in a less developed or transition region or a Just Transition Fund territory, eligible under cohesion rules, is recognised as strategic on a written request once the award procedure has run -- with no formal application.Promoters of cohesion-funded projects in less developed and transition regions and Just Transition Fund territories · BusinessesEntitlementNZIAB-SP-12Where a Member State will not recognise projects in a technology it does not accept in its energy mix, say so publicly and as soon as possible.Member States refusing recognition for a technology · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-SP-13Where the Member State misses the one-month deadline, the promoter can demand a new one, and it may be no more than 30 days past the original.Promoters awaiting a decision on strategic-project recognition · BusinessesEntitlementNZIAB-SP-14Inform the promoter and hear it before repealing a recognition on grounds of substantial change, loss of the criteria, or incorrect information.Member States and the Commission · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-SP-15Set up and maintain an openly available registry of net-zero strategic projects.The Commission · European CommissionRequirementNZIAB-SP-16Handle every process touching a strategic project in the most rapid way Union and national law allow -- a duty on the promoter as much as on the authorities.Promoters of net-zero strategic projects and all authorities concerned · BusinessesRequirementNZIAB-SP-17Take part in the urgency procedures that apply to disputes over the project.Promoters of net-zero strategic projects · BusinessesRequirementNZIAB-VAL-03Designate a Valley only with a defined geographic and technology scope, priority to built and brownfield land, a strategic environmental assessment and where applicable a habitats assessment, and synergies with renewables acceleration areas.Member States designating Valleys · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-VAL-04Designate a single point of contact for each Valley, with the permitting and strategic-project rules applying to individual projects inside it.Member States designating Valleys · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-VAL-05Give promoters templates naming the specific permits a Valley project needs, carrying the project features and mitigation measures that decide whether an environmental impact assessment is required at all.Single points of contact for Valleys · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-CO2-11Design every CO2 storage site to operate for at least five years, and run it on fair and open access, transparently and without discrimination.Operators of CO2 storage sites counting towards the Union injection objective · BusinessesRequirementNZIAB-CO2-12Publish the data on every area where a CO2 storage site could be permitted, saline aquifers included, to at least the detail the national energy and climate plan guidance asks for.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-CO2-13Where no storage projects are in progress, report instead on the plans to decarbonise industry, including cross-border transport to stores in other Member States and CO2 utilisation projects.Member States with no CO2 storage projects in progress · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-CO2-14Keep any agreements under Art. 23(5)(b)-(c) to injection capacity above the exempted contribution and above the sum of the exempted contributions.Producers exempted under Art. 23(8) · BusinessesRequirementNZIAB-PP-05Do not discriminate against, or treat differently without justification, a provider or net-zero products from another Member State.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-PP-06Apply the origin cap, the evidence duty and the 10% charge to supply originating with parties to the GPA and the Union's other relevant international agreements.Contracting authorities, and tenderers supplying from GPA signatory sources · GovernmentsSimplificationNZIAB-PP-07Apply the resilience conditions in a re-run procurement addressing the same needs, where applying them drew no suitable tenders the first time.Contracting authorities and contracting entities · GovernmentsSimplificationNZIAB-AUC-04Give each sustainability and resilience criterion at least 5% weight, and 15% to 30% combined, when applying them as award criteria.Member States designing renewable energy auctions · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-AUC-05Apply the auction regime to at least 30% of the volume auctioned per year, or alternatively at least 6 GW per year.Member States designing renewable energy auctions · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-SBX-04Publicly communicate any significant risk to health, safety or the environment found during sandbox testing and immediately suspend development and testing until it is mitigated.Competent authorities supervising net-zero regulatory sandboxes, and the participants they supervise · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-SBX-05A sandbox can be extended beyond its original duration by agreement with the national competent authority, through the same procedure.Participants in net-zero regulatory sandboxes · BusinessesEntitlementNZIAB-SME-02Take account of SME and start-up needs, give them adequate administrative support to take part in sandboxes, and tell them what financial support is available.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementNZIAB-CNF-01Protect the trade and business secrets and other sensitive, confidential and classified information obtained under the Regulation, including in the recommendations and measures taken on it.Member States and the Commission · GovernmentsRequirement
Regulation (EU) 2024/1252, consolidated 03.05.2024
Critical Raw Materials Act
90 measures · 80 added · 10 removed
CBEN-01Build Union capacity towards extracting 10%, processing 40% and recycling 25% of the Union's annual consumption of each strategic raw material by 2030.The Commission and Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCBEN-02Diversify imports so that no single third country supplies more than 65% of the Union's annual consumption of any strategic raw material by 2030.The Commission and Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCSP-01A raw materials project meeting all five criteria -- supply-security contribution, technical feasibility, sustainable implementation, cross-border benefit, and mutual benefit for third countries -- is recognised by the Commission as a Strategic Project, which carries the priority permitting track, the financing subgroup and the offtake system.Promoters of critical raw material projects in the Union, third countries and OCTs · BusinessesEntitlementCSP-02File a Strategic Project application carrying ten items: evidence against the criteria, a UN Framework Classification, a permitting timetable, a public-acceptance plan, ownership and control information, a business plan, a jobs and skills estimate, a post-exploitation environmental restoration plan, an alternative-locations assessment in protected areas, and an indigenous-peoples consultation plan.Promoters applying for Strategic Project recognition · BusinessesRequirementCSP-03Decide on Strategic Project recognition within 90 days of acknowledging a complete application, give reasons, and notify the applicant, the Board and the territory concerned.The Commission · European CommissionRequirementCSP-04Strategic Project status, and every right attached to it, is lost where the project stops meeting the Art. 6(1) criteria or was recognised on materially incorrect information.Promoters of Strategic Projects · BusinessesEntitlement withdrawnCSP-05A project that falls out of the criteria only because the list of strategic raw materials moved keeps its status, and everything attached to it, for three years.Promoters of Strategic Projects affected by an update of Annex I · BusinessesEntitlementCSP-06Report to the Commission every two years on implementation progress and permitting, on any slippage against the timetable and how it will be recovered, and on progress in financing including public support received.Promoters of Strategic Projects · BusinessesRequirementCSP-07Supply additional information on the project when the Commission asks for it to check that the recognition criteria are still met.Promoters of Strategic Projects · BusinessesRequirementCSP-08Notify the Commission of changes to the project that affect the recognition criteria, and of any lasting change of control over the undertakings involved.Promoters of Strategic Projects · BusinessesRequirementCSP-09Run a free-access project website, in a language the local population understands and requiring no personal data to read, carrying at least the environmental, social and economic impacts and benefits of the project, and keep it updated.Promoters of Strategic Projects · BusinessesRequirementCSPC-01Establish or designate single points of contact, with at most one per administrative level and stage of the critical raw materials value chain, and list them on an accessible website.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCPRM-01Strategic Projects in the Union count as being of public interest or serving public health and safety, and may be treated as of overriding public interest, in the derogations of the Habitats, Water and Birds Directives and of ecosystem-restoration law.Promoters of Strategic Projects in the Union · BusinessesEntitlementCPRM-02A Strategic Project is given the highest national significance status the Member State's own law provides, and is treated accordingly throughout permitting.Promoters of Strategic Projects in the Union · BusinessesEntitlementCPRM-03Litigation, appeals and remedies over a Strategic Project's permits are treated as urgent wherever national law has an urgency procedure -- with the promoter required to take part in it.Promoters of Strategic Projects in the Union · BusinessesEntitlementCPRM-04Complete the permit-granting process for a Strategic Project within 27 months where it involves extraction, or 15 months where it involves only processing or recycling.Member State permit-granting authorities and single points of contact · GovernmentsRequirementCPRM-05Where the project was already in permitting before recognition, or is an extension of a permitted Strategic Project, finish within 24 months for extraction or 12 months for processing or recycling, counted from recognition.Member State permit-granting authorities and single points of contact · GovernmentsRequirementCPRM-06Acknowledge completeness of a Strategic Project permit application within 45 days or state exactly what is missing, and on a second pass ask only for evidence completing what was already identified.Single points of contact · GovernmentsRequirementCPRM-07Publish the permit-granting schedule drawn up by the single point of contact on the project's own free-access website.Promoters of Strategic Projects · BusinessesRequirementCENV-01Request a scoping opinion on the environmental impact assessment report within 30 days of being notified of Strategic Project recognition, and before filing the permit application.Promoters of Strategic Projects requiring an environmental impact assessment · BusinessesRequirementCENV-02Where two or more environmental assessment duties arise at once for a Strategic Project, run a coordinated or joint procedure satisfying all of them.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCENV-03Issue the reasoned conclusion on a Strategic Project's environmental impact assessment within 90 days of receiving all necessary information and completing consultations.Member State competent authorities · GovernmentsRequirementCFIN-01A Strategic Project promoter may call in the Board's financing subgroup to work through how to close the project's financing, across private sources, the EIB Group and other IFIs, national instruments and export credit agencies, and Union programmes including Global Gateway.Promoters of Strategic Projects · BusinessesEntitlementCOFF-01A Commission-run matching system where offtakers bid volumes, qualities, prices and durations and Strategic Project promoters post offers, with the Commission introducing the two sides -- demand-side access a project developer did not previously have.Promoters of Strategic Projects and offtakers of strategic raw materials · BusinessesOpportunityCMON-01Identify the key market operators in the critical raw materials value chain on the territory, monitor them through public data and proportionate surveys, report the results, and notify the Commission without delay of major events disrupting them.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCMON-02Answer a Member State's monitoring survey with the data already held, and give reasons for any refusal or claim that the data is unavailable.Key market operators along the critical raw materials value chain · BusinessesRequirementCMON-03A key market operator may refuse a monitoring data request where answering it would disclose trade or business secrets, and is never obliged to generate data it does not already hold.Key market operators along the critical raw materials value chain · BusinessesEntitlementCSTK-01Report the state of national strategic stocks -- levels in tonnes and as a share of annual consumption, chemical form and purity, five-year evolution, and the rules for release and distribution -- or give a justified notice for withholding it on defence or national security grounds.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCRSK-01Identify the large companies on the territory that use strategic raw materials to make batteries, hydrogen equipment, renewable generation equipment, aircraft, traction motors, heat pumps, data and mobile equipment, additive manufacturing and robotics equipment, drones, rocket launchers, satellites or advanced chips.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCRSK-02Carry out, at least every three years, a supply-chain risk assessment mapping where the strategic raw materials used are extracted, processed or recycled, analysing what could affect their supply, and assessing the company's vulnerability to disruption.Large companies making batteries, hydrogen, renewable, aerospace, traction, heat pump, electronics, robotics or chip equipment with strategic raw materials · BusinessesRequirementCRSK-03Obtain supply-chain information from suppliers in order to carry out the risk assessment.Large companies subject to the Art. 24(2) risk assessment · BusinessesSimplificationCRSK-04Where the risk assessment finds significant vulnerabilities, take mitigating action, including assessing whether supply chains can be diversified or the strategic raw materials substituted.Large companies subject to the Art. 24(2) risk assessment · BusinessesRequirementCRSK-05Present the risk-assessment report, and the information requests made to suppliers, to the board of directors.Large companies in Member States that exercise the Art. 24(6) option · BusinessesRequirementCJP-01Undertakings in the Commission's demand-aggregation system may jointly negotiate purchases -- prices and other terms included -- to win better conditions from suppliers or head off shortages, on a transparent basis and within competition law.Union undertakings consuming strategic raw materials · BusinessesEntitlementCJP-02Stay out of demand aggregation and joint purchasing, as participant, supplier or service provider, where sanctioned under Art. 215 TFEU or owned, controlled by or acting for a sanctioned person.Entities targeted by Union restrictive measures, and entities they own, control or direct · BusinessesRequirementCCIR-01Adopt and run national circularity programmes: incentivise resource efficiency, promote re-use and repair, raise collection and processing of critical-raw-material-bearing waste including metal scrap, use recycled content in procurement award criteria or financial incentives, mature recycling technologies, build workforce skills, modulate extended producer responsibility fees, police waste exports, and support Union recycling quality standards.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCCIR-02Identify and report separately the quantities of critical-raw-material-bearing components removed from waste electrical and electronic equipment, and the quantities of critical raw materials recovered from it.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCEXW-01Produce and file a preliminary economic assessment study of the potential to recover critical raw materials from the extractive waste stored in the facility and from waste being generated, estimating quantities and concentrations and assessing technical and economic recoverability.Operators of extractive waste facilities under Directive 2006/21/EC · BusinessesRequirementCEXW-02Produce the preliminary economic assessment study on recovering critical raw materials from extractive waste.Operators of extractive waste facilities holding no technically recoverable critical raw materials · BusinessesSimplificationCEXW-03Build a public database of closed and abandoned extractive waste facilities carrying location, extent and waste volume, the operator or successor, and the quantities and concentrations of raw materials held -- backed by permit-file review, geochemical sampling and detailed characterisation.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCMAG-01Label MRI devices, wind generators, industrial robots, motor vehicles, light means of transport, cooling generators, heat pumps, electric motors, washing machines, driers, microwaves, vacuum cleaners and dishwashers with a conspicuous, legible and indelible statement of whether they contain permanent magnets and of which of the four magnet types.Anyone placing the listed products on the Union market · BusinessesRequirementCMAG-02Put a data carrier on or in every listed product containing a permanent magnet, linked to a unique product identifier giving the responsible person's identity, the weight, location and chemical composition of each magnet including coatings, glues and additives, and the steps, tools and technologies for accessing and safely removing them.Anyone placing listed products containing permanent magnets on the Union market · BusinessesRequirementCMAG-03Keep the magnet information complete, current and accurate, and available for the product's typical lifetime plus ten years -- surviving insolvency, liquidation or exit from the Union -- and accessible to repairers, recyclers, market surveillance and customs.Anyone placing listed products containing permanent magnets on the Union market · BusinessesRequirementCMAG-04Carry the permanent-magnet label, data carrier and magnet information.Makers of defence and space products, special purpose vehicles, multi-stage type-approved vehicle parts and small-series vehicles · BusinessesSimplificationCMAG-05Publish, on a free-access website, the share of neodymium, dysprosium, praseodymium, terbium, boron, samarium, nickel and cobalt recovered from post-consumer waste in the product's permanent magnets, once the total magnet weight passes 0.2 kg.Anyone placing listed products with more than 0.2 kg of rare-earth or samarium-cobalt magnets on the market · BusinessesRequirementCMAG-06Meet minimum recycled shares of neodymium, dysprosium, praseodymium, terbium, boron, samarium, nickel and cobalt in the permanent magnets of listed products.Anyone placing listed products with permanent magnets on the Union market · BusinessesRequirementCMAG-07Give customers access to the recycled-content information before they are bound by a sales contract, including in distance selling, and display no label, mark, symbol or inscription likely to mislead or confuse them about it.Anyone placing listed products with permanent magnets on the Union market · BusinessesRequirementCFP-01Publish an environmental footprint declaration for each critical raw material type placed on the market once calculation rules exist for it, naming the responsible person, the material type, the countries and regions of extraction, processing, refining and recycling, the calculated footprint, its performance class, and a link to the supporting study.Anyone placing critical raw materials, including processed and recycled, on the Union market · BusinessesRequirementCFP-02Give customers access to the environmental footprint declaration before they are bound by a sales contract, and display nothing likely to mislead or confuse them about what it says.Anyone placing critical raw materials on the Union market · BusinessesRequirementCCNF-01Run the applicable conformity assessment, draw up the technical documentation and the EU declaration of conformity, and affix the CE marking, before placing a magnet-labelling or recycled-content product on the market.Persons responsible for placing products covered by Arts. 28 or 29 on the market · BusinessesRequirementCFM-01Do not prohibit, restrict or impede the marketing or putting into service of compliant products containing permanent magnets, or of compliant critical raw materials, on magnet-information, recycled-content or environmental-footprint grounds.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCREC-01A certification scheme owner may have its scheme recognised by the Commission against the Annex IV criteria, with the recognised coverage published in a public register -- and recognition feeds the Art. 6(1)(c) sustainability assessment for Strategic Projects.Governments, industry associations and groupings owning critical raw materials sustainability certification schemes · BusinessesEntitlementCREC-02Tell the Commission without delay of any change or update to a recognised scheme bearing on the Annex IV criteria.Owners of recognised certification schemes · BusinessesRequirementCPEN-01Lay down effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties for infringements of the Regulation, put them into effect, and notify them and any amendment to the Commission without delay.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCRMAB-BEN-03Work to moderate the expected increase in Union consumption of critical raw materials below the Art. 44(1) reference projection, through technological progress and resource efficiency.The Commission and Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCRMAB-SP-10Continue to meet every requirement under Union, national and international law; Strategic Project recognition changes none of them.Promoters of Strategic Projects · BusinessesRequirementCRMAB-SP-11Run an open call with at least four cut-off dates a year and tell applicants within 30 days of the cut-off whether the application is complete.The Commission · European CommissionRequirementCRMAB-SP-12Accept that a single objection by the host Member State ends the application; the Member State must substantiate it before the Board.Promoters of proposed Strategic Projects, and the host Member State · BusinessesRequirementCRMAB-SP-13Hold the 90-day decision deadline where the application's nature, complexity or size, or the number received, requires longer.Promoters awaiting a recognition decision · BusinessesSimplificationCRMAB-SP-14Before recognition is withdrawn the promoter gets the Commission's reasons, an opportunity to reply, and a reply the Commission must take into account.Promoters facing withdrawal of Strategic Project recognition · BusinessesEntitlementCRMAB-SPC-02Facilitate and coordinate the permit-granting process, provide the Art. 18 information, act as the sole point of contact, and help the promoter understand any administrative matter in the process.Single points of contact · GovernmentsRequirementCRMAB-SPC-03A promoter can reach the named administrative unit handling its file, and that unit keeps its responsibilities until the promoter has been notified of any change.Promoters of critical raw material projects · BusinessesEntitlementCRMAB-SPC-04Accept all permit-granting documents in electronic form.Member States and their permit-granting authorities · GovernmentsRequirementCRMAB-SPC-05Re-run valid studies or re-obtain permits already issued for the same project.Promoters of critical raw material projects · BusinessesSimplificationCRMAB-SPC-06Give applicants easy access to dispute-settlement information and procedures, including alternative dispute resolution where applicable.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCRMAB-PRM-08Carry the permit-granting process out in the most rapid way Union and national law allow -- a duty on the promoter as much as on the authorities.Promoters of Strategic Projects and all authorities concerned · BusinessesRequirementCRMAB-PRM-09Hold the permitting time limits where the project's nature, complexity, location or size requires longer -- six months more for extraction, three for processing or recycling.Promoters of Strategic Projects · BusinessesSimplificationCRMAB-PRM-10Decide within 30 days of the developer submitting the required information whether the Strategic Project needs a full environmental impact assessment.Member State competent authorities · GovernmentsRequirementCRMAB-ENV-04Request the scoping opinion within 30 days of recognition.Promoters whose project was already in permitting before recognition · BusinessesSimplificationCRMAB-PLAN-01Consider making room for critical raw materials projects in zoning, spatial and land use plans, with priority to built, industrial, brownfield and mined land.National, regional and local planning authorities · GovernmentsRequirementCRMAB-PLAN-02Combine the strategic environmental and habitats assessments for plans making room for critical raw materials projects, covering water bodies and the marine environment.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCRMAB-INF-03Publish every permitting decision in an easily understandable form, with all decisions on one project on one website.Member States and their authorities · GovernmentsRequirementCRMAB-SP-15Take measures to facilitate timely implementation of a Strategic Project, including help with administrative and reporting compliance and with community involvement.Member States hosting a Strategic Project · GovernmentsRequirementCRMAB-INF-01Publish online and centrally the points of contact, the permit-granting and related processes, financing and investment services, funding possibilities, and business support services.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCRMAB-INF-02Publish centralised online information on how Strategic Project recognition works and what it is worth.The Commission · European CommissionRequirementCRMAB-EXP-01Draw up and review a national exploration programme covering mineral mapping, geochemical campaigns, geoscientific surveys and reprocessing of existing survey data.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCRMAB-EXP-02Publish free-access maps of mineral occurrences with UN Framework classification where applicable, and release processed geophysical and geochemical data and large-scale mapping on request.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCRMAB-MON-04Publish and keep updated a free-access monitoring dashboard carrying the parameter trends, the supply-risk calculation, and where appropriate mitigation suggestions.The Commission · European CommissionRequirementCRMAB-MON-05Report new and existing critical raw material projects on the territory, classified under the UN Framework Classification for Resources.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCRMAB-MON-06Pass the collated monitoring data to national statistical authorities and Eurostat, and designate the authority responsible for doing so.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCRMAB-STK-02Give particular weight, when opining on national stocks, to keeping private operators' incentives to hold their own strategic stocks and manage their own supply-risk exposure.The Commission and the Board · European CommissionRequirementCRMAB-RSK-06A large company may take the risk assessment to its own board, with the sources, the risks found and the mitigation planned -- and does not have to unless its Member State requires it.Large companies identified under Art. 24(1) · BusinessesEntitlementCRMAB-JP-03Set up and operate an open, transparent demand-aggregation system covering unprocessed and processed strategic raw materials, after assessing the competition impact and setting minimum participation volumes with SMEs in mind.The Commission · European CommissionRequirementCRMAB-CIR-03National circularity programmes may pay for circularity directly -- discounts, monetary rewards or deposit-refund systems for re-use, and for the collection and treatment of waste from products with recovery potential.Holders and collectors of products and waste with critical raw materials recovery potential · BusinessesOpportunityCRMAB-EXW-04Put quantities and concentrations, an assessment of technical and economic recoverability, and the estimation methods used into the study.Operators of extractive waste facilities · BusinessesRequirementCRMAB-EXW-05Cooperate with the Member State's sampling and characterisation of closed extractive waste facilities where national property, mineral or environmental law prevents the authority acting alone.Operators and owners of closed extractive waste facilities · BusinessesRequirementCRMAB-MAG-08Give magnet information at electric-motor level where the magnets sit only in motors, and put the information in the product passport where another Union act requires one.Anyone placing listed products containing permanent magnets on the market · BusinessesSimplificationCRMAB-FM-02Non-compliant products and materials may still be shown at trade fairs and demonstrations, provided a visible sign says they are non-compliant and cannot be marketed until they are.Exhibitors of products incorporating permanent magnets and of critical raw materials · BusinessesEntitlementCRMAB-CNF-02Have an economic operator established in the Union responsible for the product under Art. 4 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 before placing it on the market.Manufacturers, importers and authorised representatives of products covered by this Regulation · BusinessesRequirementCRMAB-REP-01Supply information beyond what the reporting provisions listed in Art. 45(1) already require.Economic operators along the critical raw materials value chain · BusinessesSimplification
Regulation (EU) 2025/40, base act
Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation
89 measures · 85 added · 1 removed
FREE-01Place packaging on the market only if it complies with this Regulation.Any economic operator placing packaging on the market · BusinessesRequirementFREE-02Do not prohibit, restrict or impede the placing on the market of packaging that complies with Arts. 5 to 12, and do not enforce additional national requirements against compliant packaging.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementFREE-03Packaging that meets Arts. 5 to 12 may be placed on the market anywhere in the Union: no Member State may block it, and no additional national sustainability or information requirement may be enforced against it. One compliance route replaces 27.Economic operators placing compliant packaging on the market · BusinessesEntitlementSUB-01Manufacture packaging so that the presence and concentration of substances of concern is minimised, including in emissions and in waste-management outputs such as secondary raw materials and ashes.Manufacturers of packaging · BusinessesRequirementSUB-02Keep the sum of lead, cadmium, mercury and hexavalent chromium in packaging or packaging components at or below 100 mg/kg.Manufacturers and importers of packaging · BusinessesNeutralSUB-03Rely on a heavy-metals exemption only where a Commission delegated act grants it; the exemptions are now time-limited, subject to marking, information and regular reporting requirements, and reviewable.Manufacturers relying on a heavy-metals derogation · BusinessesRequirementSUB-04Do not place food-contact packaging on the market at or above 25 ppb for any single PFAS, 250 ppb for the sum of targeted PFAS, or 50 ppm for total PFAS including polymeric.Manufacturers and importers of food-contact packaging · BusinessesProhibitionSUB-05Where total fluorine exceeds 50 mg/kg, supply on request proof of whether the measured fluorine is PFAS or non-PFAS, so the packaging manufacturer or importer can complete its technical documentation.Manufacturers, importers and downstream users under REACH supplying materials to packaging makers · BusinessesRequirementREC-01Make all packaging recyclable: designed for material recycling, and collectable, sortable and recycled at scale when it becomes waste.Manufacturers of packaging · BusinessesRequirementREC-02Assess and grade each packaging unit A, B or C for recyclability; from 2030 do not place packaging below grade C on the market, and from 1 January 2038 do not place packaging below grade B.Manufacturers of packaging · BusinessesRequirementREC-03Re-comply with design-for-recycling criteria within 3 years each time the Commission adopts or updates them by delegated act.Economic operators placing packaging on the market · BusinessesRequirementREC-04Pay EPR financial contributions modulated by the packaging's recyclability performance grade.Producers subject to extended producer responsibility · BusinessesRequirementREC-05Packaging that qualifies as innovative may be sold for up to five years from the end of the year it was first placed on the market even though it does not meet the recyclability requirement -- a run-in period no other packaging gets.Economic operators placing innovative packaging on the market · BusinessesEntitlementRCY-01Meet minimum recycled content in every plastic part of packaging, averaged per manufacturing plant per year: 30% for contact-sensitive PET, 10% for other contact-sensitive plastics, 30% for single-use plastic beverage bottles, 35% for all other plastic packaging.Manufacturers and importers of plastic packaging · BusinessesRequirementRCY-02Meet the 2040 recycled-content step: 50% for contact-sensitive PET, 25% for other contact-sensitive plastics, 65% for single-use plastic beverage bottles, 65% for all other plastic packaging.Manufacturers and importers of plastic packaging · BusinessesRequirementRCY-03Calculate and verify recycled-content percentages by the Commission's methodology, and where the methodology requires it submit to independent third-party audit.Manufacturers of recycled content and of plastic packaging placed on the market · BusinessesRequirementCMP-01Make the packaging listed in Art. 3(1) point (1)(f) and sticky labels on fruit and vegetables compostable in industrially controlled conditions, and home-compostable where the Member State requires it.Manufacturers of the listed packaging and of fruit and vegetable labels · BusinessesRequirementCMP-02Design biodegradable-polymer and other biodegradable packaging for material recycling under Art. 6, without affecting the recyclability of other waste streams.Manufacturers of biodegradable packaging · BusinessesRequirementMIN-01Design packaging so weight and volume are reduced to the minimum necessary for functionality, and document the assessment against the Annex IV performance criteria.Manufacturers and importers of packaging · BusinessesRequirementMIN-02Do not place on the market packaging failing the Annex IV performance criteria, or packaging whose features exist only to increase perceived product volume -- double walls, false bottoms, unnecessary layers.Manufacturers and importers of packaging · BusinessesProhibitionREU-01Meet all nine reusability criteria before packaging counts as reusable: designed for multiple rotations, emptiable and refillable without damage, reconditionable per Annex VI Part B, labellable, safe to handle, and recyclable at end of life.Manufacturers of reusable packaging · BusinessesRequirementLAB-01Mark packaging with the harmonised material-composition label, pictogram-based and understandable including for people with disabilities; mark compostable packaging as compostable, not home-compostable and not for disposal in nature.Economic operators placing packaging on the market · BusinessesRequirementLAB-02Label reusable packaging as reusable, carry a QR code or open digital data carrier giving re-use system and collection-point information and enabling trip and rotation counting, and distinguish reusable from single-use packaging at the point of sale.Economic operators placing reusable packaging on the market · BusinessesRequirementLAB-03Do not display labels, marks, symbols or inscriptions likely to mislead or confuse consumers about packaging sustainability, other packaging characteristics, or waste-management options where this Regulation has harmonised the labelling.Economic operators · BusinessesProhibitionLAB-04Packaging made or imported before the labelling deadlines may still be sold for three years after those requirements enter into force, so existing stock and pre-printed material do not have to be written off on the deadline.Economic operators holding pre-deadline packaging stock · BusinessesEntitlementLAB-05Ensure harmonised labels enabling separate collection of each material fraction are affixed visibly, legibly and indelibly on all packaging-waste receptacles.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementLAB-06Make an environmental claim about a packaging property regulated here only where the packaging exceeds the applicable minimum requirement, and state whether the claim covers the unit, part of it, or all the operator's packaging.Economic operators making environmental claims about packaging · BusinessesRequirementOPS-01Carry out the Annex VII conformity assessment, draw up the technical documentation and the EU declaration of conformity, and keep both for 5 years for single-use and 10 years for reusable packaging.Manufacturers of packaging · BusinessesRequirementOPS-02Keep series production in conformity, tracking changes in packaging design and characteristics and in harmonised standards, common specifications and other technical specifications.Manufacturers of packaging · BusinessesRequirementOPS-03Give the packaging manufacturer all information and documentation it needs to demonstrate conformity, including the Annex VII technical documentation, in a language the manufacturer easily understands.Suppliers of packaging or packaging materials · BusinessesRequirementOPS-04Before placing packaging on the market, verify that the manufacturer carried out the conformity assessment and drew up the technical documentation, that the packaging is labelled under Art. 12 and accompanied by the required documents, and mark your own name, trade name and contact address on the packaging.Importers of packaging · BusinessesRequirementOPS-05Before making packaging available, verify that the producer is registered in the Art. 44 register, that the packaging carries its Art. 12 labelling, and that the manufacturer and importer have marked their identification; do not make it available until any non-compliance is corrected.Distributors of packaging · BusinessesRequirementOPS-06Ensure warehousing, handling, packing, addressing and dispatch conditions do not jeopardise the packaging's compliance with Arts. 5 to 12.Fulfilment service providers · BusinessesRequirementOPS-07On request, identify to market surveillance authorities every operator that supplied you with packaging or packaged products and every operator you supplied, retaining the ability to do so for 5 years for single-use and 10 years for reusable packaging.Economic operators · BusinessesRequirementOPS-08Report the Annex XII Table 3 packaging-waste information to the competent authority annually through the Art. 35(1) electronic registry, and give producers or their producer responsibility organisation everything they need for their own Art. 44(10) reporting.Packaging waste management operators · BusinessesRequirementEXC-01Keep empty space in grouped, transport and e-commerce packaging at or below 50%, counting filling materials such as paper cuttings, air cushions, bubble wrap and foam chips as empty space.Economic operators who fill grouped, transport or e-commerce packaging · BusinessesRequirementEXC-02Reduce empty space in sales packaging to the minimum necessary for functionality and product protection, assessed at the time of filling for products subject to settlement or requiring headspace.Economic operators who fill sales packaging · BusinessesRequirementBAN-01Do not place on the market any packaging in the formats and for the uses listed in Annex V -- single-use grouped packaging for multipacks, single-use packaging for unprocessed fresh fruit and vegetables, single-use packaging for food and drink consumed on premises in the HORECA sector, single-use condiment and sauce sachets, hotel miniature toiletries, and very light plastic carrier bags outside hygiene or loose-food use.Economic operators placing packaging on the market · BusinessesProhibitionRSY-01Ensure a re-use system meeting Annex VI, including a collection incentive, exists in each Member State where you first make reusable packaging available, and document the system's compliance in the technical documentation with written confirmations from system participants.Economic operators first making reusable packaging available in a Member State · BusinessesRequirementRSY-02Participate in one or more Annex VI Part A re-use systems, recondition reusable packaging per Annex VI Part B before offering it again, and in closed-loop systems return packaging to an approved collection point.Economic operators using reusable packaging · BusinessesRequirementRFL-01Publish and keep updated the rules for refill -- permitted container types, hygiene standards, and the end user's own health and safety responsibility -- displayed on the premises or otherwise provided.Economic operators offering refill · BusinessesRequirementRFL-02Make refill stations comply with Annex VI Part C and with other Union requirements for selling through refill, and do not give away free packaging or containers at refill stations unless they meet Annex VI or sit in a deposit and return system.Economic operators offering refill · BusinessesRequirementRFL-03An operator may refuse to fill a customer's own container where the refill rules are not met -- in particular where the container is unhygienic or unsuitable for food or drink -- and bears no liability for hygiene or food-safety problems arising from a container the customer supplied.Economic operators offering refill · BusinessesEntitlementRFL-04Endeavour to dedicate 10% of sales area to refill stations for food and non-food products.Final distributors with a sales area over 400 m2 · BusinessesRequirementRTG-01Ensure at least 40% of transport packaging -- pallets, foldable plastic boxes, trays, crates, IBCs, pails, drums, canisters, pallet wrappings and straps -- is reusable within a re-use system, rising to an endeavour of 70% from 2040.Economic operators using transport packaging in the Union · BusinessesRequirementRTG-02Use only reusable transport packaging within a re-use system for movements between your own sites and those of linked or partner enterprises.Economic operators moving goods between their own or linked sites · BusinessesRequirementRTG-03Use only reusable transport packaging within a re-use system for deliveries to another economic operator inside the same Member State.Economic operators delivering to another operator in the same Member State · BusinessesRequirementRTG-04Ensure at least 10% of grouped packaging in the form of boxes, excluding cardboard, is reusable within a re-use system, rising to an endeavour of 25% from 2040.Economic operators using grouped packaging boxes · BusinessesRequirementRTG-05Make at least 10% of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages available in reusable packaging within a re-use system, rising to an endeavour of 40% from 2040, and ensure own-brand packaged products contribute fairly and proportionately.Final distributors of beverages · BusinessesRequirementRTG-06Take back free of charge all reusable packaging of the same type, form and size you made available, at or close to the point of handover, and fully redeem or notify the associated deposit.Final distributors subject to the beverage re-use target · BusinessesRequirementRTG-07Where the Member State allows it, final distributors may pool to meet the beverage re-use target together rather than each hitting 10% alone -- up to five members, up to 40% of the relevant beverage category's market share.Final distributors subject to the Art. 29(6) beverage target · BusinessesEntitlementRTG-08Calculate achievement of each re-use target separately, in equivalent units of the listed formats for transport and grouped packaging, and in sales units or volume of beverages for the final-distributor targets.Economic operators and final distributors subject to the Art. 29 targets · BusinessesRequirementRTG-09Report re-use target achievement to the competent authority within 6 months of each reporting year's end, through its electronic system and in its format, with further information on request.Economic operators subject to the Art. 29 re-use targets · BusinessesRequirementTKA-01Provide a system letting consumers bring their own container to be filled with take-away hot or cold beverages and with ready-prepared food, at no higher cost and on no less favourable terms than the same product in single-use packaging, and inform consumers of the option at the point of sale.Final distributors in the HORECA sector selling take-away food and drink · BusinessesRequirementTKA-02Offer consumers the option of take-away food and drink in reusable packaging within a re-use system, at no higher cost and on no less favourable terms than single-use, informed at the point of sale; from 2030 endeavour to offer 10% of products in a reusable format.Final distributors in the HORECA sector selling take-away food and drink · BusinessesRequirementBAG-01Meet the 40-bags-per-capita ceiling in EVERY year after 2025, not only in 2025, and lose the alternative route of discharging the duty by ensuring bags are not supplied free of charge.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementBAG-02Keep annual consumption of lightweight plastic carrier bags at or below 40 per capita -- the level itself, unchanged from the repealed directive.Member States · GovernmentsNeutralCNF-01Demonstrate compliance with Arts. 5 to 12, 24 and 26 using reliable, accurate and reproducible test, measurement and calculation methods reflecting the state of the art, with results of low uncertainty.Economic operators demonstrating conformity · BusinessesRequirementCNF-02No longer required to prove conformity from first principles where a harmonised standard covers the requirement: conformity is presumed, and Art. 37 adds a Commission common-specification fallback where no standard exists or the standard is inadequate.Economic operators demonstrating conformity of packaging · BusinessesSimplificationCNF-03Prove conformity without relying on a national standard: the route by which a notified national standard conferred a presumption of conformity where no harmonised standard existed is not carried over.Economic operators in Member States that had notified national packaging standards · BusinessesRequirementCNF-04Run the Annex VII internal production control conformity assessment procedure for the Arts. 5 to 12 requirements.Manufacturers of packaging · BusinessesRequirementCNF-05Draw up, continuously update and keep the EU declaration of conformity in the Annex VIII model, translated as the Member State of marketing requires, and assume responsibility for the packaging's compliance by drawing it up.Manufacturers of packaging · BusinessesRequirementAUT-01Designate competent authorities for this Chapter and for Arts. 6(10), 29(1)-(7) and (9) and 30 to 34, lay down their organisation and the administrative and procedural rules for registration, reporting oversight, EPR supervision, EPR authorisation and information, and notify the Commission by 12 July 2025.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementAUT-02Add a dedicated packaging chapter to the Directive 2008/98/EC waste management plan covering Arts. 48, 50 and 52 measures, and a dedicated packaging chapter to the waste prevention programme covering Arts. 43 and 51 measures and litter.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementPRV-01Reduce packaging waste generated per capita against a 2018 baseline by at least 5% by 2030, 10% by 2035 and 15% by 2040, and endeavour to reduce plastic packaging waste specifically.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementREG-01Register in the national producer register of every Member State where you first make packaging or packaged products available, or where you unpack packaged products without being an end user, supplying the Annex IX Part A information; do not make packaging available at all until registered.Producers of packaging and packaged products · BusinessesRequirementREG-02Report the Annex IX Part B information to the register by 1 June each year for the preceding calendar year, with a lighter Part B point 2 return for producers under 10 tonnes; submit quarterly instead where the Member State requires it for budgetary reasons, and notify changes and cessation without undue delay.Producers, their authorised representatives, or their producer responsibility organisation · BusinessesRequirementEPR-01Carry extended producer responsibility for all packaging first made available or unpacked in a Member State, with financial contributions additionally covering the cost of labelling waste receptacles under Art. 13 and of compositional surveys of mixed municipal waste.Producers of packaging and packaged products · BusinessesRequirementEPR-02Before allowing a producer to use the platform, obtain its Art. 44 registration details and registration number for the consumer's Member State and a self-certification of EPR compliance, and make best efforts to assess whether that information is complete and reliable.Providers of online platforms allowing distance contracts with producers · BusinessesRequirementEPR-03Check the producer's registration and EPR self-certification against an official database or the public register, require correction where the information looks inaccurate, incomplete or out of date, and suspend the service until it is corrected, giving reasons.Fulfilment service providers · BusinessesRequirementEPR-04A producer whose fulfilment service is suspended for an EPR information failure may challenge that decision before a court in the Member State where the fulfilment service provider is established.Producers whose fulfilment service has been suspended · BusinessesEntitlementEPR-05Apply to the competent authority for authorisation to fulfil extended producer responsibility, individually or through a producer responsibility organisation, and notify changes or cessation without undue delay.Producers fulfilling EPR individually, and producer responsibility organisations · BusinessesRequirementEPR-06Provide an adequate financial guarantee covering waste management costs owed in the event of non-compliance, permanent cessation of operations or insolvency.Producers fulfilling EPR individually, and producer responsibility organisations · BusinessesRequirementCOL-01Set up return and separate collection covering the whole territory and all packaging waste, open to operators, authorities and third parties and to imported products on non-discriminatory terms; collect design-for-recycling-compliant packaging for recycling and prohibit its incineration and landfill.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementCOL-02Set mandatory national collection objectives for the Art. 52 materials, consistent with the recycling targets and with the Art. 7 recycled-content requirements.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementDRS-01Separately collect at least 90% by weight per year of single-use plastic beverage bottles and single-use metal beverage containers up to three litres.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementDRS-02Set up deposit and return systems for single-use plastic beverage bottles and metal beverage containers, with a deposit charged at the point of sale, meeting the Annex X minimum requirements.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementDRS-03Ensure return points for reusable packaging are as convenient for end users as the return points for single-use packaging in a deposit and return system.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementRRF-01Take measures encouraging re-use and refill systems that comply with Arts. 27 and 28 and Annex VI without compromising food hygiene or consumer safety, and ensure EPR schemes and deposit and return systems allocate a minimum share of their budget to reduction and prevention.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementRCT-01Achieve recycling of at least 65% of all packaging waste by weight by 31 December 2025 and 70% by 31 December 2030, with material lines of 50/55% plastic, 25/30% wood, 70/80% ferrous metals, 50/60% aluminium, 70/75% glass and 75/85% paper and cardboard.Member States · GovernmentsNeutralRCT-02Calculate packaging waste generated and packaging waste recycled each calendar year on the Art. 53 rules, exhaustively, adjusted for comparability, reliability and completeness under the Art. 56(7) implementing act.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementRCT-03Where an adjusted recycling target is claimed for re-use, calculate it by subtracting the three-year average share of reusable sales packaging, capped at five percentage points, and account separately for wooden packaging repaired for re-use.Member States claiming a re-use adjustment · GovernmentsRequirementINF-01Make available to end users information on their role in waste prevention, the re-use arrangements available, their role in separate collection including for packaging containing hazardous products, the meaning of on-pack labels and symbols, and the impact of littering and of discarding packaging in mixed municipal waste.Producers, producer responsibility organisations, or appointed public authorities · BusinessesRequirementINF-02Report to the Commission each calendar year on recycling target implementation and reusable packaging, per-capita consumption of each carrier-bag category, the DRS separate collection rate, and the quantities of packaging made available, collected and recycled by category.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementINF-03Establish harmonised packaging and packaging waste databases carrying the Annex XII data and information on flows, made publicly accessible in a machine-readable, interoperable and re-usable format.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementMSV-01Lay down effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties for infringements, including administrative fines for breaches of Arts. 24 to 29, and notify the Commission of the rules and of any later amendment.Member States · GovernmentsRequirementMSV-02Where there is sufficient reason to believe packaging presents a risk to the environment or human health, evaluate it against all relevant requirements, require the operator to take corrective action, and where the operator does not act, prohibit or restrict the packaging or withdraw or recall it.Member State market surveillance authorities · GovernmentsRequirementMSV-03Communicate national non-compliance measures without delay to the Art. 25(1) authorities under Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 so they feed the border risk analysis, and act on formal non-compliance under Art. 62.Member State market surveillance and designated border authorities · GovernmentsRequirementGPP-01Apply the Commission's minimum mandatory green public procurement requirements when awarding contracts where packaging or packaged products represent more than 30% of the estimated contract value or of the value of products used by the contracted services.Contracting authorities and contracting entities under Directives 2014/24/EU and 2014/25/EU · GovernmentsRequirement