Poland continues to fight with the EU’s climate policy.  “We have filed three complaints with the CJEU”

Poland continues to fight with the EU’s climate policy. “We have filed three complaints with the CJEU”

Anna Moscow, Minister of Climate and Environment, announced that the Polish government has filed three more complaints to the Court of Justice of the European Union regarding the provisions of the EU’s Fit for 55 climate package. The complaints concern the ban on registration of combustion vehicles after 2035 , increasing the EU greenhouse gas emissions reduction target and reducing the number of free ETS available on the market.

According to the Moscow minister, EU proposals may threaten our country’s energy security. The head of the climate ministry stressed that Poland could not agree to this. The first complaint was filed on Friday. informed that it concerns the LULUCF regulation under the package The LULUCF (Land use, land use change and forestry) sector is related to land use, land use change and forestry. “In the proposal, we indicate that the LULUCF Regulation was adopted on the wrong legal basis, additionally infringing the competences of the Member States, interfering in the way forest management is conducted, despite the lack of EU competence in this area– said the minister. She added that in the coming weeks Poland will submit one complaint a week to the CJEU.

Poland continues to fight with the EU’s climate policy

In turn, when it comes to electric cars, the minister asked: “Does the EU want to make authoritarian decisions about what kind of vehicles will be used by Poles and to make them grow in Poland? Let us emphasize, however, that the bans apply only to new emission cars and only after 2035. The regulation adopted by the EU primarily encourages the production of zero-emission and low-emission cars. – The idea of ​​banning the registration of combustion cars after 2035 is an idea without calculations, without analyzes of market development and socio-economic ones. I believe that this madness during the revision will be reversed, because someone will finally count it, how us – said the minister on TVP. Let us recall, however, that the EU commissioners, when adopting the regulations, committed themselves to a systematic review of whether they make sense and whether they require changes. “By the end of 2025, the European Commission will have to present its first analysis of how the availability (also price) of emission-free cars is growing and how the reduction of the emission of sold cars affects the pockets of consumers” – explains Bartłomiej Derski from

Another complaint is that to combat climate change, it raised the target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to at least 55% by 2030. (from the previously planned 40%) and set the achievement of climate neutrality by 2050 as a legally binding goal. However, Poland believes that this affects our interests and energy security. “The Polish government will not allow Brussels to dictatet,” concluded Minister Anna Moscow in her Twitter post.

Source: Gazeta

You may also like

Immediate Access Pro