Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-001840/2024
to the Commission
Rule 144
Jessica Polfjärd (PPE)
In her mission letter to Commissioner-designate for Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth Wopke Hoekstra, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen states that a framework to ‘further scale down and phase out the use of fossil fuel subsidies’ is to be created.
This goal is important, and has also been underlined many times by Parliament. However, a key part of such a goal is to agree on a common definition of what constitutes, and what does not constitute, a fossil fuel subsidy. As far as I know, a commonly acknowledged definition of this does not exist today.
In light of this, I would like to ask the Commission the following:
How does the Commission define fossil fuel subsidies?
Submitted: 26.9.2024