{"id":199821,"date":"2025-06-20T12:16:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T12:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/199821\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T12:16:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T12:16:22","slug":"commission-to-kill-eu-anti-greenwashing-rules-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/199821\/","title":{"rendered":"Commission to kill EU anti-greenwashing rules \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decision \u2014 announced just one working day before the final round of negotiations with EU countries and MEPs to reach a deal was due to take place \u2014 means the EU will not be asking companies to provide verified information to back up the green<strong> <\/strong>claims they make.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The European Commission has the right of initiative to make but also withdraw [a] proposal after its own assessment of the legislative process,&#8221; Stefan de Keersmaecker, another spokesperson for the Commission.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/200427\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">POLITICO reported<\/a> that the center-right European People&#8217;s Party (EPP) had sent a letter to the environment Commissioner Jessika Roswall, asking the EU executive to withdraw its proposal, threatening not to support any deal coming out of the negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/pro.politico.eu\/news\/200355\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">POLITICO also reported<\/a> that the Commission was considering withdrawing another green law asking countries to monitor the health and degradation of forests.<\/p>\n<p>It is very unusual for the Commission to withdraw a legislative proposal and only happens if the co-legislators are not able to find a consensus, or if the Commission believes that compromise doesn&#8217;t respect the original idea of the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The decision \u2014 announced just one working day before the final round of negotiations with EU countries and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[4675,2311,17365,67941,728,2000,299,5187,34065,2443,3695],"class_list":{"0":"post-199821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-biodiversity","9":"tag-climate-change","10":"tag-corporate-governance","11":"tag-corporate-responsibility","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-european-green-deal","17":"tag-regulation","18":"tag-sustainability"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114715648611127149","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}