This would compel companies operating in countries deemed at risk to prove the accuracy of the declared emissions of their EU-bound goods, French Renew MEP Pascal Canfin told journalists on 1 July.
Firms would also be required to demonstrate they’re not circumventing CBAM, the EU’s flagship tax on carbon-intensive imports, said Canfin, who is part of Parliament’s negotiating teams on two CBAM proposals.
The list of countries deemed at risk would be based on criteria defined in the final text; rules proposed by MEPs would include China, Canfin added.
These proposals would reverse the logic of the European Commission’s draft CBAM extension law, which favoured using actual emission values, reserving the use of more punitive default values only for cases where data is unavailable.
Parliament negotiators have also agreed on the list of aluminium- and steel-intensive byproducts to be covered by the CBAM extension proposal, adding 249 goods to the Commission’s original list of 180.
Canfin expects that these proposals, included in draft parliamentary reports, will receive broad support from MEPs — from The Left through to the centre-right EPP’s most right-leaning members — in a 6 July vote in the environment committee, ENVI.
