Parliament’s Committees on Economic and Monetary Affairs and on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety will debate the classification of gas and nuclear with Commissioner McGuinness.
The two committees will scrutinise the complementary Taxonomy Delegated Act
put forward by the Commission on 9 March 2022, which proposes to
include, under certain conditions, specific nuclear and gas energy
activities in the list of economic activities covered by the EU taxonomy.
The new Delegated Act classifies certain
fossil gas and nuclear energy activities as transitional activities
contributing to climate change mitigation under Article 10(2) of the
Taxonomy Regulation. The inclusion of certain gas and nuclear activities
is limited in time and dependent upon specific conditions and
transparency requirements.
Parliament and Council have until 9 July
2022 to decide if they want to veto the Delegated Act. This period may
be extended further by two months.
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