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COM (2023) 441 Information Note (‘CountEmissions’) 1.

Proposal Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the accounting of greenhouse gas emissions of transport services 2.

Date of Commission document 11/07/2023 3.

Number of Commission document COM (2023) 441 final 4.

Number of Council document: 11821/23 5.

Dealt with in Brussels by Transport Council – INTERMODAL working party 6.

Department with primary responsibility Department of Transport 7.
Other Departments involved Aspects of the proposal are of expected interest to the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications, and the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment.

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Background to, Short summary and aim of the proposal The EU’s Sustainable and Smart Mobility Strategy [COM(2020) 789] refers to the setting up of a European framework for the harmonised measurement of transport and logistics greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Such a mechanism should be based on globally recognised standards and be used to provide businesses and end-users with an estimate of the carbon footprint of their choices, thereby increasing transparency and incentivising demand from end-users to opt for more sustainable transport and mobility solutions, while avoiding greenwashing from individual transport service providers.
Commonly cited reasons why transport service providers do not disclose GHG emissions of their transport services are concerns around commercially sensitive data, lack of technical support tools and the complexity of emissions accounting, and the lack of benefits for the reporting entity.
In this proposal, the Commission has therefore recognised and addressed the need for a harmonised methodological framework for the measuring and accounting of emissions from transport services (i.e., both passenger and freight transport) across the entire multimodal transport chain.
The objectives of the Regulation are to incentivise behavioural change among businesses and customers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport services through the uptake and use of comparable and reliable greenhouse gas emissions data, and specifically to: 1.

Ensure the comparability of results from greenhouse gas emissions accounting of transport services; 2.
Facilitate the uptake of greenhouse gas emissions accounting of transport services in business practice Mandatory application of this Regulation to all entities and economic operators offering transport services on the Union market is not envisaged.