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Speaking for the rapporteur, Jessica Polfjärd outlines the proposed ETS reform in terms of industrial competitiveness, conditionality on free allowances and use of revenues, and details planned changes for waste incineration, maritime transport and aviation coverage.
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Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the ETS review and, via the rapporteur’s substitute, sets out the main reform priorities for sectors like waste, maritime and aviation, framing the balance between higher climate ambition, competitiveness, energy prices and anti‑evasion safeguards.
After reopening ENVI separately, members adopt the agenda and coordinators’ recommendations, then vote on the biotechnology and medicinal products opinion followed by key compromise and group amendments to the resolution for the UN Climate Change Conference in Antalya, ending with its final adoption.
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Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Ordinary meeting
The committee closes the previous file with votes on emergency assistance, the Biotech Act opinion mandate and the Antalya COP resolution, and then formally adopts its agenda and coordinators’ recommendations before moving to the ETS item.
Chairs open the joint ENVI–SANT meeting, then rapporteurs present and see adopted the joint report on the Union Civil Protection Mechanism and EU health emergency preparedness, including compromise amendments and the final roll‑call vote.
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MEPs open the debate and question the EEA on Arctic assessments and live data services, climate tipping points and resilience policy, bridging the science–policy implementation gap, circular economy potential and investment needs, climate justice and raw materials, and the agency’s role on exposome and One Health in the absence of a dedicated EU body.
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The EEA Executive Director presents escalating climate and environmental risks, argues for full implementation of the Green Deal with systemic, cross‑cutting measures, then details recent and upcoming EEA assessments, network expansion, digitalization and AI strategy, and associated funding needs under the EU financial framework.
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Chairs open the joint and then ENVI‑only sessions, adopt agendas and minutes, confirm substitutes and conduct roll‑call and hand votes on the Inter‑American sea turtles convention, ECHA basic regulation, INSPIRE Directive compromises and final text, and the Market Stability Reserve and flupiradifurone objection, closing the voting block.
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Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Ordinary meeting
Commissioner Lahbib reports on the severe 2026 wildfire season and rescEU/Union Civil Protection Mechanism operations, then engages in two Q&A rounds on solidarity, causes, volunteers, land use and forest management, funding needs, industrial autonomy for firefighting assets, and long‑term prevention and adaptation, outlining cross‑Commission climate‑preparedness efforts while stressing Member State prerogatives and the need for a stronger EU crisis budget.
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Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Ordinary meeting
The Commission explains the state of play, flexibilities and financing role of national restoration plans under the Nature Restoration Law, then answers two rounds of MEP questions on delays, ambition, funding gaps, forest and peatland restoration, non‑deterioration, transparency and stakeholder involvement, clarifying Member State responsibilities, voluntary rewetting, and how NRPs should steer the next MFF and CAP green spending.
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Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Ordinary meeting
Minister O’Brien presents the Irish Council Presidency’s climate, ETS, circular economy and international negotiation priorities, followed by two detailed rounds of MEP questions and replies on ETS design and timetable, CO2 standards for cars, water resilience, environmental omnibus regulation, nuclear and energy mix, LIFE and MFF, and protecting households and SMEs during the green transition.
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Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Ordinary meeting
The Chair conducts the afternoon voting session on ENVI-relevant EU budget lines, including compromise and roll-call votes, and then puts to a roll-call the Patriots’ challenge to the allocation of ETS rapporteurships, ultimately confirming the coordinators’ decision and closing the procedural block.
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Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Ordinary meeting
The Chair opens the agenda item on climate, gender and health, the Commission (DG CLIMA and DG SANTE) presents its approach to gender mainstreaming and One Health, MEPs raise concerns and requests on gendered climate‑health impacts, and the Commission gives an initial response on data, monitoring and preparedness frameworks.
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Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Ordinary meeting
Commission services address democratic standards and the handling of protests in Albania, explain the enlargement methodology and Chapter 27 environmental benchmarks, and specify conditions on EIAs, protected areas and anti‑corruption for advancing accession. The segment clarifies current compliance gaps and expected reforms before further institutional steps.
Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Ordinary meeting
MEPs across groups challenge Albania’s compliance with EU environmental acquis under Chapter 27, highlighting coastal megaprojects in protected areas, weak or missing EIAs, and risks to Copenhagen criteria and enlargement credibility.
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Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Ordinary meeting
Commission outlines Albania’s accession track, stressing rule‑of‑law and Chapter 27 benchmarks, and links further negotiations to alignment with the environmental acquis, proper environmental impact assessments and repeal of incompatible investment and protected‑areas laws.
Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Ordinary meeting
Comprehensive Q&A between MEPs and Minister Heydon on the future CAP and CMO, budget and MFF link, simplification and environmental acquis, protein crops, livestock and animal welfare, climate and water resilience, nature and nitrates, pesticides and the food/feed omnibus, CBAM, biomethane and the definition of ‘active farmer’.
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Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety Ordinary meeting
Procedural opening with the REGI opinion vote on ERDF and the Cohesion Fund 2028–2034, followed by Minister Heydon’s presentation of the Irish Council Presidency mandate, geopolitical context and overarching agricultural priorities.
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Berend clarifies how review mechanisms have enabled past restrictions and why drone rules need realistic timelines, before Buda and the co‑rapporteurs frame the package as balancing food security, innovation and safety, reject accusations of industry capture, and defend simplification; the meeting ends with a heated procedural dispute over the chair’s impartiality, confirmation of amendment and vote calendars, and a contentious closure of the session.
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Further MEPs highlight clogged approval pipelines, innovation needs, and farmers’ competitiveness versus third‑country imports, while others stress health, environmental and biodiversity risks, cite PFAS and past pesticide scandals, criticise deregulation and lack of impact assessments, and clash over risk‑based versus precautionary approaches, data privacy, MRL setting and the proper role of the AGRI committee.
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DG SANTE’s Klaus Berend explains the objectives, projected cost savings and safety safeguards in the simplification package, justifies risk‑based potentially unlimited approvals with structured review mechanisms, and raises concerns over extending long approval periods and overly broad mutual recognition, while defending a calibrated, EFSA‑based approach to import MRL alignment, emergency authorisations, labelling and SME HACCP obligations.
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Shadows and group speakers from S&D, EPP, Patriots for Europe, Renew, Greens, The Left and ID outline sharply diverging positions on unlimited approvals, grace periods, biocontrol prioritisation, drones and mutual recognition, with some welcoming faster, less bureaucratic approvals and reciprocity on import MRLs, while others warn of weakened precaution, extended use of hazardous substances, under‑resourced regulators and industry bias, using testimonies and national analyses to support their arguments.
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Co‑rapporteurs Picaro and Dorfmann set out their approach to turn the Food and Feed Omnibus into a genuine simplification and innovation exercise by unblocking renewal procedures, promoting automatic mutual recognition, speeding access to biocontrol and new active substances, and creating a specific EU framework for precision agriculture and drone use, while insisting on reciprocity in trade and maintaining safety standards.
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The chairs open the extraordinary joint meeting, adopt the agenda and minutes, outline interpretation and webstreaming, announce the upcoming public hearing on simplification, and emphasise the political and practical importance of the food and feed safety omnibus for farmers and legislators before handing the floor to the co‑rapporteurs.
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The Chair organises amendments and votes then opens the ENVI–AGRI joint hearing on simplifying EU food and feed safety rules, where co‑rapporteurs outline priorities on PPP renewals, mutual recognition, biocontrol and precision agriculture, followed by first political reactions on simplification, treated seeds, drone rules and delegated acts timing.
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Item 8 covers the Industrial Accelerator Act, with the rapporteur detailing a sovereignty‑focused ‘Made in Europe’ approach, political groups setting out differing priorities on scope, conditionality and climate alignment, and the Commission presenting the instrument’s goals, tools and governance for decarbonised, competitive EU industry.
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Extraordinary ENVI meeting opens with agenda and minutes adoption, followed by a substantial voting block on MSR for buildings and road transport, downstream goods, anti‑circumvention measures and a CFP opinion, then moves into the rapporteur’s procedural MSR invalidation file aligned with the ETS review and a detailed exchange with political groups and the Commission on stopping future MSR invalidation, market signals and coherence with the upcoming ETS/MSR reform.
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Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety - Voting session
The committee votes by roll call on three objection items: item 9 (49–22–1), item 10 (48–22–1) and item 11 (48–23–1), all adopted. The Chair then closes the voting session and announces a break until 10:30.
Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety - Voting session
The committee moves to item 8, notes EPP requests for roll-call votes on amendments 2 and 9, and votes on compromise amendments 1–10, with compromises 2 and 9 by roll call. A final roll-call vote on item 8 is adopted with 57 in favour, 14 against and 1 abstention.
Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food Safety - Voting session
After the compromises, the committee votes on amendments 976, 977 and 30, including an electronic check on 976, and all three amendments are rejected. A final roll-call vote on the item is then opened and adopted with 52 in favour, 4 against and 16 abstentions.
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