MEPs on Parliament’s industry committee, ITRE, voted on 24 June to significantly broaden the range of products covered by the EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM).
The compromise amendment, backed by the EPP, S&D, Renew, and Greens groups, would extend the mechanism beyond those products proposed by the Commission to include a wide range of basic and semi-finished goods, household appliances, kitchen equipment, construction and handling machinery, transport equipment, and industrial products.
The text also removes a temporary suspension clause and deletes a reference to international carbon credits, a provision that had proved controversial.
It further strengthens measures against attempts to circumvent the CBAM and calls for the creation of key performance indicators to assess the mechanism’s effectiveness in protecting EU producers from international competition.
Parliament’s environment committee, ENVI, which leads work on the file, will be free to incorporate or disregard ITRE’s recommendations when it adopts its report on 6 July.
