{"id":468529,"date":"2026-10-20T10:51:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T08:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/10\/20\/il-parlamento-ue-vuole-piu-quote-ets-di-co2-gratuite-per-le-industrie\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T11:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T09:16:22","slug":"eu-parliament-seeks-more-free-co2-ets-allowances-for-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/10\/20\/eu-parliament-seeks-more-free-co2-ets-allowances-for-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Parliament seeks more free CO2 ETS allowances for industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 Almost 100 million additional free emission allowances for European industries and increased funding to modernise district heating systems. The European Parliament\u2019s Environment Committee (ENVI)<\/a> aims to strengthen the protection of businesses against the risk of carbon leakage<\/em><\/strong>, i.e. the relocation of production activities to countries with less stringent climate regulations, by revising the benchmarks of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). <\/p>\n

With 64 votes in favour, 11 against and 2 abstentions, MEPs adopted their position yesterday (19 October) on the European Commission\u2019s proposal to revise the heat and fuels benchmarks<\/a> for 2026\u20132030. These are the parameters used to calculate the CO\u2082 allowances allocated free of charge to industrial installations where no specific product benchmark exists.<\/p>\n

 The committee supports the EU Commission\u2019s proposal<\/a> that all allowances still available for free allocation \u2013 estimated at around 88 million \u2013 should be used, and calls for a further 11 million<\/strong> to be added, withheld from installations that have failed to comply with the conditions set out in the ETS, bringing the total to close to 100 million. The revision would thus limit the reduction in reference values compared with the 2021\u20132025 period, with an average cut of around 12.5 per cent.<\/p>\n

The People\u2019s Party, the Social Democrats, the Liberals and the Conservatives<\/strong> backed the negotiating mandate.MEPs are also proposing to allocate one-third of the unallocated allowances to the Modernisation Fund and another one-third to the Innovation Fund. The rest would help adjust the benchmarks. Among other measures, the first instrument funds the modernisation of district heating networks; the second supports the development of innovative low-emission technologies.<\/p>\n

The ENVI Committee also calls on the European Commission to introduce specific parameters for certain industrial sectors, starting with certain areas of the ceramics industry, where the general fuel benchmark does not adequately reflect the performance of the installations. \u201cThe Committee recognises, with broad support, that certain sectors need stronger protection against carbon leakage,\u201d said the rapporteur for the report, Adam Jarubas<\/strong> (EPP).<\/p>\n

 Parliament will vote on its position in the plenary on Thursday (22 October)<\/strong>, before negotiations with the Council begin. The aim is to apply the new reference values as part of the 2027 update.<\/p>\n

The PD MEP, Annalisa Corrado<\/strong>, also the PD\u2019s environment spokesperson, expressed satisfaction, saying: \u201cThe vote in the ENVI Committee is a very important political result,\u201d which demonstrates \u201cthat fair negotiation within the majority bloc can lead to concrete solutions, which are also accepted by other groups based on pragmatism and cooperation.” Furthermore, \u201cthe compromise on benchmarks, approved by 64 votes in favour and 11 against, corrects a distortion that has heavily penalised certain industrial sectors, particularly the ceramics sector, while maintaining Europe\u2019s climate ambition and incentives for decarbonisation\u201d, she added. It will now be \u201ccrucial\u201d that Thursday\u2019s vote in the Environment Committee \u201cconfirms this balance, with as wide a majority as possible.\u201d <\/p>\n

Fratelli d\u2019Italia also gave a positive assessment. \u201cWe voted in favour in the ENVI Committee of the revision of the ETS parameters for 2026\u20132030, because this represents a first step forward compared with the European Commission\u2019s proposal, which we found entirely unsatisfactory,\u201d said the Fratelli d\u2019Italia-ECR MEPs sitting on the ENVI Committee, Antonella Sberna<\/strong>, Vice-President of the European Parliament, and Stefano Cavedagna<\/strong>. \u201cIn particular, by incorporating our amendments into the text, we wanted to send a concrete signal of support to the ceramics industry, by making more free allowances available and introducing specific parameters \u2013 not previously provided for \u2013 at a time when businesses are facing unfair international competition,\u201d they noted. \u201cWe hope that the plenary, by approving this text, will move beyond a Green Deal that has little to do with the needs of European industry,\u201d they concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The text was adopted by the Environment Committee (ENVI) of the European Parliament yesterday (19 October) with 64 votes in favour, 11 against and 2 abstentions, and received the support of the European People\u2019s Party, the Social Democrats, the Liberals and the Conservatives<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7896,"featured_media":235405,"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":[30800],"tags":[36282,26955,27843,29083,33009,34130,26147,34737,26879,29899,25755,36283,36016],"class_list":["post-468529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","tag-benchmark","tag-carbon-en","tag-co2-in-2","tag-emissioni-co2-en","tag-commissione-ambiente","tag-emissioni-carbonio","tag-emissions-en","tag-envi","tag-commissione-envi-en","tag-ets-en","tag-news-parliament-en","tag-scambio-quote-di-carbonio","tag-sistema-scambio-quote-di-carbonio"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468529","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\/7896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468530,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468529\/revisions\/468530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}