How to watch the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE)

PFAS restriction: MEP concerns and study author reply

An Italian MEP highlights severe health impacts, downstream sector costs and the need for a holistic PFAS impact assessment, followed by the study author explaining the economic focus of his analysis, implications of transition periods, and sector‑specific needs for derogations and innovation support, especially in F‑gases, green tech and semiconductors.

In this chapter

1. Italian MEP: PFAS health, cost and holistic impact
2. PFAS study author: F‑gases, grouping and innovation

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MEPs: PFAS health crisis, mandate and derogations

Borys Budka PPE

MEPs challenge the study’s narrow scope and emphasis on industrial impacts, confronting the consultants on PFAS’ severe health and environmental harms, broad derogation proposals, treatment of fluoropolymers under the new grouping approach, and the study’s mandate and potential conflicts, while the authors defend their economic impact focus and advocate nuanced regulation via instruments like the F‑gas framework and targeted derogations for critical uses.

In this chapter

1. PFAS restriction debate: health crisis vs industrial impactBorys Budka
2. PFAS study mandate, conflicts of interest and grouping approachBorys Budka

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Chair: introduction and PFAS study findings

Borys Budka PPE

The chair opens item 12 and the consultants present their Parliament‑commissioned study on PFAS in key industrial sectors, outlining limited substitutability, major competitiveness and safety impacts for aerospace, semiconductors and defence, and suggesting long or unlimited derogations combined with stricter emission controls and use of existing F‑gas regulation.

In this chapter

1. Item 12 introduction: PFAS industrial competitiveness studyBorys Budka
2. PFAS study findings: sectors, substitutability and derogation proposalsBorys Budka

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Item 11: PPAs and CFDs study and MEP scrutiny

Borys Budka PPE

The committee examines the external study on PPAs and CFDs for the EU energy transition, with experts presenting key findings on de‑risking renewables, auction and contract design, and 2050 scenarios, followed by two rounds of MEP questions on state guarantees, SME access, market design stability and the respective roles of PPAs and CFDs before the chair closes the item.

In this chapter

1. Item 11 introduction: PPAs and CFDs studyBorys Budka
2. Experts’ presentation: role of PPAs and CFDs in EU energy transitionBorys Budka
3. PPAs/CFDs Q&A: de‑risking, auction design, SMEs and platformsBorys Budka
4. Second PPAs/CFDs round: roles over market maturity and electricity designBorys Budka

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Opening, agenda and file allocation dispute

Borys Budka PPE

Chair Budka opens the ITRE meeting, adopts the agenda and practical arrangements, then faces a strong political challenge to coordinators’ written decisions on file allocation, culminating in a contested vote using the new voting system on these decisions and several recommendations, resolutions and budget items.

In this chapter

1. Opening of meeting and agenda adoptionBorys Budka
2. Coordinators’ decisions on file allocation contested
3. Broader political criticism of allocation processBorys Budka
4. Test of new voting system and voting blockBorys Budka

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