{"id":178081,"date":"2025-12-10T17:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/178081\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T17:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T17:08:09","slug":"eu-unveils-another-plan-to-roll-back-green-rules-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/178081\/","title":{"rendered":"EU unveils another plan to roll back green rules\u00a0 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Commission will stress-test the Birds and Habitats Directives in 2026 \u201ctaking into account climate change, food security, and other developments and present a series of guidelines to facilitate implementation,\u201d it said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Critiques roll in \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some industry groups, like the Computer &amp; Communications Industry Association,\u00a0have welcomed the changes, calling it a &#8220;a common-sense fix.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>German center-right MEP Pieter Liese also welcomed the omnibus package, saying, &#8220;[W]e need to streamline environmental laws precisely because we want to preserve them. Bureaucracy and paperwork are not environmental protection.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>But environmental groups opposed the rollbacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Von der Leyen Commission is dismantling decades of hard-won nature protections, putting air, water, and public health at risk in the name of competitiveness,&#8221; WWF <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwf.eu\/?20369891\/Green-protection-gutted-European-commission-jeopardises-nature-and-health-safeguards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">said<\/a> in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The estimated savings \u201ccome with no impact assessment and focus only on reduced compliance costs, ignoring the far larger price of pollution, ecosystem decline, and climate-related disasters,\u201d it added. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Industrial Emissions Directive, which entered into force last year and is already being transposed by member countries, was \u201calready much weaker than what the European Commission had originally proposed\u201d during the last revision, pointed out ClientEarth lawyer Selin Esen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Birds and Habitats Directives are the backbone of nature protection in Europe,\u201d said BirdLife Europe\u2019s Sofie\u00a0Ruysschaert.\u00a0\u201cUndermining them now would not only wipe out decades of hard-won progress but also push the EU toward a future where ecosystems and the communities that rely on them are left dangerously exposed.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Commission will stress-test the Birds and Habitats Directives in 2026 \u201ctaking into account climate change, food security,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1477,4401,4413,1435,242,104367,34381,85,46,27915,50171,544,4438,141,140,4447,18139,1865],"class_list":{"0":"post-178081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-climate-change","9":"tag-companies","10":"tag-emissions","11":"tag-energy","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-fish-farming-aquaculture","14":"tag-food-security","15":"tag-il","16":"tag-israel","17":"tag-livestock","18":"tag-nature-restoration","19":"tag-regulation","20":"tag-regulatory","21":"tag-science","22":"tag-security","23":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","24":"tag-waste","25":"tag-water"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}