Establishing the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund

Wording as published by the EP, in English.

1. Amendment 83Rejected

   Recital 1

   Tabled by Jorge Buxadé Villalba, Silvia Sardone, Roman Haider +4 · PfE

   (1) The Removed: Union is committed to achieving climate neutrality by 2050 and reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, in line with Added: Union, by pursuing an increasingly burdensome and disconnected regulatory agenda under the European Green Removed: Deal4 and the European Climate Law5 . The Clean Industrial Deal, as set out in the Commission Communication of 26 February 20256 , underscores the need to align industrial competitiveness with climate ambition, ensuring that the transition to a climate-neutral economy is both just and economically resilient. 4 Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the European Council, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions of 11 December 2019, The European Green Deal, COM(2019) 640 final. 5 Regulation (EU) 2021/1119 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 June 2021 establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality and amending Regulations (EC) No 401/2009 and (EU) 2018/1999 (OJ L 243, 9.7.2021, p. 1, ELI: ttp://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2021/1119/oj). 6 Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee ff the Regions of 26 February 2025, The Clean Industrial Deal: A joint roadmap for competitiveness and decarbonisation, COM(2025) 85 final. Added: Deal4, has created a regulatory and socioeconomic environment that is fundamentally hostile to European industry, severely undermining its competitiveness, discouraging investment and production in the Union, and threatening the survival of entire industrial sectors.

2. Amendment 86Rejected

   Article 7

   Tabled by Jorge Buxadé Villalba, Silvia Sardone, Roman Haider +3 · PfE

   Removed: Article 7 Conditionality 1. Where an operator is subject to the obligation to conduct an energy audit as a stand-alone energy audit or within the framework of a certified Energy Management System or Environmental Management System, the operator shall receive financial support from the Fund provided that the operator demonstrates to the satisfaction of the competent authority that one of the following conditions is fulfilled: (a) all recommendations under Article 11 of Directive 2023/1791/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council21 have been implemented; (b) the pay-back time for any remaining relevant investments exceeds five years; (c) the cost of implementing the recommendations referred to in (a) is disproportionate and the operator demonstrates a legal commitment within the meaning of Article 3d of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1842 for investments implementing other measures which will lead to greenhouse gas emission reductions equivalent to those recommended by the audit report or by the certified Energy Management System for the installation concerned. 2. The conditions set out in paragraph 1, points (a), (b) and (c), shall apply also to operators that are not subject to the obligation to conduct an energy audit provided that their energy audit is compliant with the minimum criteria set out in Annex VI to Directive (EU) 2023/1791. 3. Alternatively to paragraphs 1 and 2, an operator shall receive financial support from the Fund provided that the operator demonstrates a legal commitment within the meaning of Article 3d of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1842 made for investments to achieve the targets and milestones referred to in a climate neutrality plan and which is at least equivalent to the support amount applied for under this Regulation. 21 Directive (EU) 2023/1791 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 September 2023 on energy efficiency and amending Regulation (EU) 2023/955 (OJ L 231, 20.9.2023, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2023/1791/oj). Added: deleted

3. Amendment 87Rejected

   Article 7 – paragraph 3

   Tabled by Jorge Buxadé Villalba, Silvia Sardone, Roman Haider +4 · PfE

   … receive financial support from the Fund provided that the operator demonstrates a Removed: legal commitment within the meaning of Article 3d of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1842 made for investments to achieve the targets and milestones referred to in a climate neutrality plan and which is at least equivalent to the support amount applied for under this Regulation. Added: significant reduction in turnover resulting from having incurred excessive investment costs, or having suffered job losses, as a consequence of complying with the objectives and requirements set out in Union environmental and climate legislation.

4. Amendment 94Rejected

   Article 6 – paragraph 3

   Tabled by Stanisław Tyszka, Marcin Sypniewski, Volker Schnurrbusch +1 · ESN

   … delegated acts in accordance with Article 14 to supplement this Regulation by Removed: establishing an indicator Added: laying down the methodology for the indicator referred to in paragraph 2 for determining the heightened remaining risk of carbon Removed: leakage provided for in paragraph 2 and Added: leakage, as well as the application procedure referred to in that paragraph. These delegated acts may not establish a list of Removed: goods determined on the basis of that indicator, the conditions that the operators need to fulfil to receive financial support, in addition to the ones set out in Article 7, and the procedure to make the request referred to in the first subparagraph. Added: additional eligible goods or lay down additional conditions for the receipt of financial support. Any decision taken under paragraph 2 shall be limited to the specific case in question and shall not result in any amendment to the Annex. Any amendment to the Annex shall require a legislative act adopted under the ordinary legislative procedure.

5. Amendment 96Rejected

   Article 7 – paragraph 1 a (new)

   Tabled by Stanisław Tyszka, Volker Schnurrbusch, Marc Jongen · ESN

   Added: (1a) Notwithstanding paragraph 1, an economic operator or downstream economic operator shall receive financial support from the Fund if they provide the competent authority with evidence of the CO₂ costs incurred in connection with eligible goods and have a valid energy audit or a certified energy or environmental management system, without having to fulfil any further conditions under this Article, provided that the support applied for does not exceed EUR 500 000. Small and medium-sized enterprises within the meaning of Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC are not required to submit a climate neutrality plan or a transition plan in order to receive support under this Regulation.