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MPE Welcomes Proposed CBAM Scope Extension and Production Route Benchmarks

Metal Packaging Europe

A Permanent Solution for Circularity in Europe LCA Highlights Metal Packaging’s Long-Term Progress

Metal Packaging Europe

ALUMINIUM INDUSTRY ACKNOWLEDGES PROPOSED CBAM REFORMS BUT STRESSES CBAM’S CONTINUED SHORTCOMINGS

European Aluminium

European Aluminium welcomes the Commission’s proposal to extend CBAM to downstream aluminium products and acknowledges the Commission’s efforts to improve the mechanism. However, serious flaws remain, and without rapid action to address circumvention, scrap and exports, CBAM risks increasing rather than reducing carbon leakage.

Clean Corporate Vehicles Proposal: A de facto ban on the ICE through the back door.

FuelsEurope

Brussels, 19 December:

The European Commission proposal on Clean Corporate Vehicles, also included in the Automotive Package, raises serious concerns regarding technology neutrality, and industrial realism.

A robust and effective CBAM export mechanism to ensure a level playing field for EU-produced goods

FuelsEurope

Brussels, 19 December 2025: The intention of the European Commission to address the risk of carbon leakage related to exported goods covered under the CBAM is a positive step forward. However, we stress the urgent need for such a mechanism to be robust, workable and WTO- defendable, to prevent carbon leakage in global markets and safeguard the competitiveness of EU industry, prior to any consideration of extending CBAM to refinery products.

S&Ds welcome EUCO support for immediate Ukraine needs. More pressure on Russia must follow.

S&D - Socialists and Democrats

Increased European Union support for Ukraine is a positive step, but leveraging frozen Russian assets must remain on the table, the Socialists and Democrats said today.

European Parliament puts Fuel Manufacturing at the core of EU Military Mobility

FuelsEurope

Brussels, 18 December 2025: The vote in European Parliament on the SEDE-TRAN INI Report on Military Mobility makes clear that EU military forces are going nowhere without sufficient fuel supplies.

FEDIOL welcomes adoption of the EUDR targeted revision but stresses need to urgently fix pending implementation issues

FEDIOL

Brussels, 18 December 2025 - FEDIOL, representing the EU vegetable oils and protein meal industry, is pleased that the European Parliament and Council managed to adopt their provisional agreement on the Commission’s proposal for the revised EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) but cautions that the work to address all pending implementation issues is far from over. The Commission and Member States will have to accelerate efforts to clarify, simplify, and harmonise implementation to ensure readiness by 30 December 2026.

On the planned Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism extension proposals: “CBAM’s extension threatens Europe’s machinery industry”

VDMA - Mechanical Engineering Industry

Frankfurt, 17 December 2025 – Regarding the proposals presented today by the European Commission to extend the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), Holger Kunze, Director VDMA European Office, comments:

Early Signals on Renewable Fuels Require Clarity and Ambition to Unlock Their Full Potential

FuelsEurope
Brussels, 17 December 2025: The Commission’s proposal to revise the CO₂ Standards for light- duty vehicles introduces, for the first time, an explicit recognition that renewable fuels, including both biofuels and efuels, may contribute to meeting the 2035 target.
 
Liana Gouta, Director General, states “this indicates that the role of renewable fuels in the decarbonisation of road transport is, to a certain extent, acknowledged also in the vehicle regulation”.
 

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