Category: Sustainability

The Commission’s published methodology leans on deforestation-rate and governance proxies; producer states warn a high-risk label would impose disproportionate due diligence on already-compliant supply.

Revised default emissions factors lift the implied charge on importers that cannot supply verified installation-level data, sharpening the incentive to obtain primary measurements.

The review reopens the eligible-feedstock list, with intermediate and sequential crops in focus; obligated parties face possible recalibration of advanced-biofuel eligibility.

The next phase extends sustainability-reporting obligations to certain non-EU parent groups operating through EU subsidiaries, broadening the assurance perimeter.

Three additional polysilicon-linked entities were added to the enforcement list, tightening the rebuttable presumption facing solar module importers.