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\n The head of Austria\u2019s chamber of commerce, leading conservative politician Wolfgang Hattmannsdorfer, has called on the EU executive to roll back a swathe of Green Deal regulations in its ongoing war on red tape, while the European insurance industry lobby has also weighed into the debate.
\n ADVERTISEMENTAustria’s leading trade and industry bodies have called on European Commission top brass to revisit a swathe environmental laws adopted under the flagship Green Deal of president von der Leyen\u2019s first EU executive, in letters seen by Euronews.The Corporate Sustainability and Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) was welcomed by unions and green groups last year after a fraught debate\u00a0among governments and\u00a0EU legislators, and requires\u00a0businesses operating in Europe to demonstrate there is no environmental or human rights violations in their supply chains outside the EU.The CSDDD \u201cmust either be significantly simplified or dismissed altogether\u201d, the head of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber,\u00a0Wolfgang Hattmannsdorfer, said in a letter to economy commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis, dated 6 February and co-signed by the Federation of Austrian Industries.Hattmansdorfer is currently leading fractious coalition talks for the Austrian People’s Party, which came second to the far-right Freedom Party in general elections last September, and has even been tipped as its next leader. \u201cIn order to maintain competitiveness, we see a further urgent need for simplification in numerous legal acts of the Green Deal,\u201d he wrote, specifying an incoming border tax (CBAM) based on the carbon footprint of a range of imported goods and the Deforestation Regulation \u2013 already delayed in a process spearheaded by Vienna.The list continued with a law banning products linked to forced labour from the EU market, the Packaging and Packaging Waste Direct designed to stem a rising tide disposable trash, plastic in particular, and a regulation on ecodesign intended to ensure products are more durable, recyclable and energy efficient.”Bureaucracy has reached proportions that can no longer be tolerated,\u201d Hattmannsdorfer said in a statement on Tuesday (11 February).His joint letter followed an invitation-only discussion of the first omnibus proposal last week, dubbed a \u2018simplification roundtable\u2019 and slammed by unions and civil society groups who saw it as heavily skewed in favour of big business.A similar letter was addressed to the Commission\u2019s vice-president in charge of industrial strategy, St\u00e9phane S\u00e9journ\u00e9, demanding that reporting obligations under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, which requires firms to publish details of their direct impact on the environment and society, should be \u201csignificantly reduced\u201d.Moreover, an EU list of investment areas deemed sustainable under EU law \u2013 with important ramifications for\u00a0access to financial and policy support \u2013 should be \u201curgently scrutinised\u201d and aligned with \u201cimportant markets in the US, UK and Asia”, S\u00e9journ\u00e9 is told.Insurers joined the chorus today, also calling on Dombrovskis and S\u00e9journ\u00e9 to revisit the CSDDD as the EU\u2019s executive arm makes good today on president von der Leyen\u2019s promise last week of a \u201cwhole fleet of omnibuses\u201d \u2013 a reference to a series of forthcoming anti-red tape packages.New Commission Work ProgrammeIn line with earlier leaks, the 2025 work programme published by the Commission today lists three omnibus packages to come out before the summer, with the sustainability package due on 26 February to be followed by reviews of rules on investments and mid-cap companies \u2013 a yet to be defined category larger than SMEs that is set to enjoy wide exemptions from reporting obligations.The industry association Insurance Europe said requirements need to be simplified and based only on a streamlined sustainability reporting directive. \u201cOn CSRD, all work to develop new additional sector specific reporting should stop,\u201d director general Thea Utoft Hoj Jensen said in a letter to the commissioners.\u201cCurrent transitional relief should be extended until there is clarity on how such reporting can work in practice, allowing companies to delay reporting on certain elements, including on their value chain,\u201d Jensen wrote. The taxonomy, they said, is \u201cnot proving useful for insurers’\u00a0investment decisions\u201d, she added.ADVERTISEMENT’Unnecessary bureaucracy’Large parts of the European business community, including leading lobby groups in Brussels, are seizing on the second von der Leyen presidency\u2019s refocus away from the Green Deal to enhancing competitiveness on the global stage, with the support of conservative lawmakers in the European Parliament.”We must preserve the core of the Green Deal, in particular the climate targets, but unfortunately there is far too much unnecessary bureaucracy and this must be removed,\u201d the Europe People\u2019s Party environment policy lead Peter Liese said today.Patrick ten Brink, secretary general of the European Environmental Bureau urged the EU to \u201cresist the siren song of deregulation\u201d, but warned that the 2025 work programme drew into question von der Leyen\u2019s promise to \u201cstay the course\u201d on the Green Deal.ADVERTISEMENT\u201cWhile the Commission reaffirms its commitment, it is deprioritising the very goals where the most effort is still needed — particularly the Zero Pollution ambition,\u201d ten Brink said.Alongside the first omnibus proposal, the Commission plans to publish its flagship Clean Industrial Deal, intended to combine renewed growth and competitiveness with increased sustainability, and an action plan to reduce energy costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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