The European Commission declared Friday that he intends to eliminate new rules against Greenwashing after hitting a road block in the final stretch by conservative legislators who define them too onerous for businesses.The “directive in green claims” would require companies to provide difficult facts to support the statements that their products are neutral, biodegradable or “less polluting”.
Companies should present tests for environmental requests for approval by independent verifiers, with fines and other penalties in order not to comply.
“In the current context, the Commission intends to withdraw the proposal of green complaints,” the EU manager spokesman on environmental issues, Maciej Berestecki, told journalists.
European legislators and the 27 block member states agreed last year to move forward with the directive, which had been aimed at three -way negotiations with the commission with a final meeting established for Monday.But the European Central-Destra-the largest strength of Parliament, which is now pushing to restore parts of the Eu-Non green agenda was satisfied with the text and this week asked this week to withdraw it.
Berestecki said that the EU executive arm decided to do this, because the “current discussions around the proposal” went against his “simplification agenda”.
Currently 30 million micro-enterprises-o 96 percent of all companies-they would be covered by the text, something that the commission did not like, explained Berestecki.
The head of the EU Ursula von der Leyen, which comes from the app, has undertaken to make life easier for businesses in an attempt to relaunch the European economy.
DANUSE NERUDOVA, the negotiator of the App in the file, welcomed the commission’s move, describing the proposal as “excessively complex” and without an impact assessment to show that its benefits would exceed the charges on businesses.
“We need a clear, proportionate and highlighted regulation,” he said in an AFP declaration. “Less bureaucracy and more competitiveness – this is what we promised to citizens.”
But the colleague Legislator Sandro Gozi, of the Renew Centrist Group, defined the “shameful” decision.
“It is unacceptable that the EPP, in tandem with the far right, is trying to undermine a fundamental legislation to protect European citizens from company environmental fraud,” he said.
Since the elections of last year saw the EU Parliament to move to the right, the block has taken the push to cut the bureaucracy seen as an economic growth, including the key parts of the Green Agreement “of Von der Leyen’s first mandate.
More surprisingly, a hard fought law that imposes on companies to ensure that their global supply chains are without ethical and environmental abuse has had its launch reported to 2028 and its future is in doubt.
The bill in Green’s claims was one of the numerous EU initiatives that stood on Greenwashing, with a separate law adopted last year that prohibited large and generic statements such as the labeling of “eco-compatible” or “natural” products.
