REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2003/87/EC as regards revised benchmark values for the heat and fuel benchmarks for the period from 2026 to 2030

Tabled by Jorge Buxadé Villalba, Silvia Sardone, Roman Haider, Barbara Bonte, Antonín Staněk, Viktória Ferenc, Ondřej Knotek, Mathilde Androuët, Marie-Luce Brasier-Clain, Jana Nagyová, Valérie Deloge, Anne-Sophie Frigout

Added: 2aa. By way of derogation from the obligation to surrender allowances pursuant to Article 12(3), point (a), installations producing ceramic products by firing, in particular roofing tiles, bricks, refractory bricks, tiles, stoneware or porcelain, covered by Annex I, shall be exempt from the obligation to surrender allowances for the period from 2026 to 2030. For the year 2027, they shall be allocated additional free allowances corresponding to the number of allowances surrendered in respect of their verified emissions for the year 2026. The additional allowances allocated pursuant to this paragraph shall be deducted from the quantity of allowances that would otherwise be auctioned pursuant to Article 10(1).

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE788.374