An interesting cross party challenge to the Complementary Delegated Act that addresses economic activities in the natural gas and nuclear energy sectors.
It is a cross Party backed challenge. That increases the chance of success for any challenge.
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Will it get 353 votes in the full Parliament and deliver a veto? It would spare Austria and others a visit to the European Court of Justice.
Next Steps
- Joint ENVI-ECON Public Hearing: 30 May 2022
- ECON-ENVI Committee vote: 14 – 16 June 2022
- Plenary Vote: 5 – 7 July 2022
The text is also cleverly addressing different reasons to reject the Delegated Act, which should help to attract the required majority in ECON-ENVI and in plenary: institutional reasons (no impact assessment, no consultation with the EP), fuel imports from Russia, investors don’t want and need it (fragmentation, investor trust, admin burden), environmental nonsense (TEG recommendation against it).