{"id":464286,"date":"2026-09-08T14:34:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T12:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/09\/08\/jet-privati-e-sostenibilita-la-commissione-accetta-la-bocciatura-della-misura-salva-ricchi\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T15:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T13:05:13","slug":"private-jets-and-sustainability-commission-accepts-rejection-of-measure-favouring-the-wealthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/09\/08\/private-jets-and-sustainability-commission-accepts-rejection-of-measure-favouring-the-wealthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Private jets and sustainability: Commission accepts rejection of measure favouring the wealthy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 Sustainable transition: following its defeat in court, the Commission does not intend to defend the “rich-saving” rule that excluded private jets from CO\u2082 emission reduction efforts. It is the Commissioner for Financial Services, Maria Luis Albuquerque<\/strong>, who ruled out an appeal against the judgment<\/a> of the Luxembourg judges: “In the light of the sound reasoning of the General Court in its judgment, the Commission
\nconsiders that an appeal would most probably not be successful.<\/strong>” <\/span><\/span><\/span>The response provided by Albuquerque in the parliamentary question on this matter is an admission of fault and confirmation that the EU executive acted hastily and haphazardly.<\/p>\n

As part of implementing the European Green Deal<\/a> for a sustainable economic transition, the first von der Leyen Commission exempted private jets from the sustainability rules, thereby excluding the industry and its aircraft from efforts to reduce environmental impact. However, according to the EU General Court, there was no explanation of the reasoning. The part of the regulation at issue was annulled, and the Court established the principle that the private\u2011jet sector cannot be excluded a priori from EU sustainability rules.<\/p>\n

The Commission takes note of this and will waive its right to appeal. Albuquerque\u2019s words suggest a decision driven more by the realisation of defeat than by the principles underlying the choices of the previous von der Leyen Commission; indeed, work is already underway to rewrite the legislation to satisfy everyone \u2013 the wealthy and the judges in Luxembourg alike. <\/strong>The Commission, Albuquerque states, \u201cwill aim to
\nreintroduce a new Section\u201d<\/strong> on private jets as part of the ongoing revision of the delegated regulation \u201cin a manner that complies with the General Court\u2019s judgment <\/strong>and ensures that the
\ncriteria remain robust and consistent with the objectives of the Taxonomy Regulation.\u201d In short: the aim is to clarify more precisely when private jets may be exempted from sustainability requirements.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Albuquerque: \u201cAn appeal would most probably not be successful.\u201d The EU Commission intends to rewrite the rules in line with the criteria set out in the judgment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":464275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25712,25706],"tags":[26119,35629,30444,25886,33394],"class_list":["post-464286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-green-economy-en","tag-transport-aerial-en","tag-jet-privati","tag-maria-luis-albuquerque-en","tag-sustainability-en","tag-ue"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464287,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464286\/revisions\/464287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}