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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.

While every other sector’s climate emissions have decreased since 1990, on average, transport emissions have increased by almost 30% since 1990 (aviation emissions, for one, have more than doubled). Each mode of transport faces varying challenges to reverse this trend and reduce them in the coming decade.

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…

The EU urgently needs a new and robust legislative framework on zero emission infrastructure to support the 33-44 million electric cars (battery and plug-in hybrid) expected on the road in 2030 to align with transport decarbonisation goals. Consumers should have access to the EU single market for chargers.

Transport & Environment (T&E) welcomes the Commission’s (EC) proposal for a regulation on the deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure. In particular the change of the legislative instrument from directive to a regulation T&E considers an important step in the right direction. (detailed feedback in attachment).