Environment

#52026AG0002(02)Regulation on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting for Transport Services

🇪🇺European Union··Other·Medium Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

This law standardizes how transport services calculate and report greenhouse gas emissions within the EU. It encourages companies to use reliable data, simplifies calculations, and tries to motivate customers to reduce their emissions. Though the rules are mainly for businesses choosing or mandated to disclose carbon data, EU states can enforce more stringent data requirements for operations within their borders.

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Key Changes

  • Standardizes greenhouse gas emissions accounting for transport services in the EU.
  • Encourages use of primary data but allows member states to require it.
  • Simplifies GHG emission calculations while reducing administrative burdens.

Obligations

What this law requires

critical

Transport and hub entities must calculate and disclose their greenhouse gas emissions data at a disaggregated level if they choose or are mandated to do so.

transport entitieshub entities
reporting
medium

Member States may develop incentive frameworks to encourage the use of primary data for greenhouse gas emissions calculations.

Member States
operational
medium

The Commission is required to assess and report on actions taken to incentivize the use of primary data in its review of the regulation.

European Commission
during review of the regulation
reporting
low

The Commission must develop, via implementing act, a simplified calculation tool specifically for SMEs.

European Commission
operational
high

Entities must use updated greenhouse gas emission intensity values for the calculation of output data no later than 18 months after the values are publicly updated.

transport entitieshub entities
18 months after updates are publicly available
reporting

Affected Parties

Transport service providersEU member states

Tags

GHG emissions,transport,environment