We strongly support the Commission’s proposal to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies in the revised ETD. However, we consider that some aspects of the proposal have not been ambitious enough when it comes to setting price signals consistent with the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions that we must achieve in the coming years.
Continue readingIPCC Report: EU Must End Dangerous, Radical Funding of Fossil Fuels for Fishing Industry
“For the EU this means fuel tax subsidies that perpetuate the most polluting and ocean-destructive fishing fleets must be ceased immediately, and a rapid transition to low-impact, low-carbon fishing must be supported instead.”
Continue readingAGRIFISH: EU Must Seize Opportunity to End Fishing Sector Fossil Fuel Addiction
NGOs are calling for a rigorous plan to decarbonise the fishing sector and for the EU to stick to its commitments under the Green Deal, ahead of a meeting between AGRIFISH and the Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevičius on March 21, in response to an emerging crisis in the EU fishing industry over increasing fuel prices.
Continue readingWhy Eliminating Fuel Subsidies from EU Fisheries is Good for Public Finances, the Marine Environment, and the Climate
This report examines the wide-reaching reasons – which are overwhelmingly supported by science – to remove EU fuel subsidies
Continue readingReport: Climate Impacts & Fishing Industry Profits From EU Fuel Tax Subsidies
EU tax exemptions for fuel are harmful subsidies that reduce the costs of fishing, therefore leading to an increase of fishing capacity, and thus contributing to overfishing in the European Union
Continue readingReport: EU Fuel Tax Subsidies Worth €1.5 billion are Driving Climate Impacts & Overfishing
The EU fishing fleet receives a tax break of between €759 million and €1.5 billion from fuel tax subsidies each year, as well as producing nearly 7.3 million tons of CO2 just from burning fuel, according to a report published today by the Our Fish campaign.
Continue readingNew EU energy laws “clearly insufficient” for climate goals – ClientEarth responds to ‘Fit for 55’
ClientEarth lawyer Flaminia Tacconi said: “This revision risks maintaining the status quo in sectors like fisheries, with only very low taxation for fishing vessel fuel in EU waters and no taxation at all on fuel for vessels operating beyond EU waters. The fishing industry, and in particular the large-scale vessels that are so destructive for the ocean, must be part of the global effort to combat climate change – starting with bearing the true cost of its fuel.”
Continue readingReaction to EU Fit for 55: Energy Taxation Directive and Fossil Fuel Subsidies for the Fishing Industry
Why does the fishing industry get a free pass when everyone else has to pay the true price of carbon pollution and environmental destruction?
Continue readingProposal for a Council Directive: Restructuring the Union framework for the taxation of energy products and electricity
Energy Taxation Directive: Identifying the appropriate legal basis
This short memo deals with the legal basis that the EU can rely upon in the revision of the Energy Taxation Directive (ETD).It will first discuss two cases of the CJEU (C-626/18 & C-482/17) that have dealt with the question of the applicable legal basis within the context of the revision of EU directives.
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