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We welcome the European Commission’s initiative to review the Energy Taxation Directive and make it consistent with the climate agenda of the Green Deal. Taxation policy can become one of the most important and effective instruments to steer the European economy and consumer behavior patterns towards increasingly sustainable choices.

EDF welcomes the intention of the Commission to review the Energy Taxation Directive (ETD). The current Energy Taxation Directive does not contribute to the EU’s climate and energy policy goals: there is no link between minimum tax rates and their energy content and CO2 emissions. The ETD does not provide preferential tax treatment for low-carbon energy final consumption.

To achieve the objectives set out in the Green Deal, all EU policies and sectors will need to make their contribution – notably the transport sector. As innogy, part of the E.ON group, explicitly advocates for electric mobility in road traffic, we welcome the Commission’s commitment to spur the action needed to keep the transition towards cleaner mobility and the EU on the path in meeting its Paris climate…

EDF welcomes the European Commission proposal for a Regulation on the deployment of alternative fuels, as part of the “fit for 55” package. The transport sector should indeed decrease its GHG emissions drastically to reach the renewed climate objectives enshrined within the EU Green Deal and carbon neutrality by 2050.