Commission Delegated Regulation amending Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/807 to introduce a trajectory to gradually decrease the contribution of high indirect land-use change-risk biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels to renewable energy targets

Tabled by Paolo Borchia, Raffaele Stancanelli, Aleksandar Nikolic, Julie Rechagneux, Jana Nagyová, Georg Mayer, Roman Haider, Isabella Tovaglieri, Mélanie Disdier, Ewa ZajączkowskaHernik, Ondřej Knotek, Jorge Martín Frías

Added: 1c. Emphasises that, pursuant to Article 290 TFEU, delegated acts may only supplement or amend certain non-essential elements of a legislative act; considers that amendments to feedstock classification criteria entailing an estimated economic impact exceeding EUR 1.4 billion across the value chain are liable to affect essential policy choices and therefore raise serious questions as to whether they may appropriately be regarded as relating solely to non-essential elements; stresses that any such amendments should be accompanied by a comprehensive impact assessment, especially of the economic consequences; accordingly, calls for limiting the conferral of delegated powers on the Commission, particularly where such delegation is defined in overly broad and general terms, as this entails the risk of transferring to the Commission decisions with significant economic and political impact that should instead remain within the remit of the co-legislators;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE789.919