{"id":887759,"date":"2026-04-11T22:41:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/887759\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T22:41:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:41:41","slug":"eu-eyes-flexibility-on-methane-rules-to-avert-gas-supply-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/887759\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Eyes Flexibility on Methane Rules to Avert Gas Supply Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The European Union will soon offer flexibility to companies on both penalties and tracing energy imports to help ensure that its landmark law to tackle methane emissions in fossil fuel imports doesn\u2019t put its supply at risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The European Commission, the bloc\u2019s executive branch, will issue documents to guarantee that fines for companies that are unable to comply with the rules on the powerful greenhouse gas do not \u201cconstitute a problem for security and supply and that penalties have to be proportionate,\u201d according to Ditte Juul Jorgensen, director general for energy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Union will soon offer flexibility to companies on both penalties and tracing energy imports to help&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":887760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3843],"tags":[10836,1395,2311,728,299,29692,11670,31113,475,774,2725,70,16,15,771],"class_list":["post-887759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-cargo","tag-china","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-europe","tag-fossil-fuel","tag-green","tag-greenhouse-gases","tag-imports","tag-iran","tag-law","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-war"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116388487890380480","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887759","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=887759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}