❗️ The meeting of environment ministers has just started. On today’s agenda: 🌍 EU 2040 climate target 📄 EU’s post-2030 NDC in view of #COP30 🌳 Info point on deforestation @eu2025dk 🎥 Follow the public session of the #ENVI Council LIVE here 👇

Grid package, CBAM, industrial Accelerator now officially moved to 10/12 for Commission's presentation 📍

❗️@EUCouncil has agreed on the #REPowerEU regulation, aiming to: 📅 gradually end Russian gas imports, with full ban by 1 January 2028 📑 streamline customs & authorisation procedures 📈 boost EU energy security #TTE @eu2025dk Next ⏭️ talks with @Europarl_EN More here 👇

✅ @EP_Environment adopted its policy demands for the @UNFCCC #COP30 ⬆️57 ⬇️23 ↔️4 #EPlenary vote scheduled for October II More details🔽 https://t.co/mcaqFsP67N

L'Allemagne se serait engagée à soutenir le lobbying français en faveur d'une directive "énergies bas carbone" remplaçant les objectifs ENR En échange? La bienveillance de Paris pour faire passer la stratégie progaz de Berlin (et son mécanisme de capacité) auprès Bruxelles. 2/2

« Mon gaz contre ton nucléaire » : la fragile nouvelle idylle franco-allemande Six mois après les élections fédérales allemandes, Paris et Berlin ont-ils réconcilié leurs politiques énergétiques ? A en croire certains, oui. https://t.co/2IXlnrdOus ✏️ avec @ThomasChemel 1/2

The 🇺🇦 President just addressed 🇪🇺 leaders in 🇩🇰 Copenhagen. Asked the bloc to hit 🇷🇺 oil with more sanctions, saying this with be crucial to get a stronger response from 🇺🇸

Vote in committees scheduled on 16/10 (+vote on the mandate to start the trilogues and skip the plenary) 5/5

Member states are required to set penalties for breaches of the ban, with a minimum fine of 5% of a company’s global annual turnover. 4/

Importers will be required to report the origin of the gas one month before the transaction. 3/

New gas contracts (including storage contracts) will be banned as of 1 January 2026, and short-term existing gas contracts as of June 2026 2/

🤝Earlier today, EP negotiators reached a deal on REPowerEU, agreeing in their compromise to ban Russian oil imports as of January 2026 and all gas imports by January 1, 2027. 1/

📍Heads up: a flood of initiatives coming on 25/11, including the European Grids Package & Industrial Accelerator Act

CBAM: @EUCouncil adopts new law to simplify and strengthen 🇪🇺 carbon leakage instrument. Read our press release👇

Opinion on phasing out Russian natural gas imports by @psaudargas also just adopted in @EP_SingleMarket!

The grid package could be published around 26 November — or one to two weeks later — suggested DG ENER Deputy Director Mechthild Wörsdörfer today before ITRE MEPs. It will include the 2nd PCI/PMI list, guidance on grid connection, and a revision of the TEN-E regulation.

He spoke on the 16 September during a high-level conference to review the Commission's progress in implementing the recommendations set out in Draghi's report on the future of European competitiveness

#Draghi doesn’t hold back on EU energy policy: 👉Relaxing rules to subsidise prices “does not fix the structural reasons why energy in 🇪🇺 is so expensive” 👉Grid package & budget “wont cut energy prices quickly” 👉Decoupling gas&elect. prices: “far more decisive action needed”

The 🇩🇰 presidency of the Council is suggesting a range of 66.3%-72.5% for the temporary nationally determined contribution (#NDC) of the EU, "without prejudice to the final agreement of the EU's 2040 climate target". The issue will be discussed tomorrow by Coreper I

The consultation on the revision of the energy security framework is out 👉DG ENER is considering a single regulation covering electricity, natural gas, and other energy carriers (e.g. hydrogen). https://t.co/VUft6DES8f