L 63/6
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
28.2.2023
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All measures in the recovery and resilience plans should be undertaken in compliance with the applicable Union and national environmental acquis, in particular relating to environmental impact assessment and nature protection.
For measures benefitting from the derogation from the principle of ‘do no significant harm’, Member States should undertake satisfactory efforts to limit the potential harm to environmental objectives within the meaning of Article 17 of Regulation (EU) 2020/852, where feasible, and to mitigate the harm through other measures, including measures in the REPowerEU chapters.
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The REPowerEU chapters should be consistent with the national energy and climate plans of Member States and with the Union climate targets set out in Regulation (EU) 2021/1119.
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Reflecting the European Green Deal as Europe’s sustainable growth strategy and the importance of tackling climate change in line with the Union’s commitments to implement the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the Facility is to contribute to the mainstreaming of climate action and environmental sustainability and to the achievement of an overall target of 30 % of Union budget expenditure supporting climate objectives.
To that end, the measures supported by the Facility and included in recovery and resilience plans of Member States should contribute to the green transition, including biodiversity, or to addressing the challenges resulting therefrom, and should account for an amount that represents at least 37 % of the recovery and resilience plan’s total allocation and for at least 37 % of the total estimated costs of the measures in the REPowerEU chapter based on the methodology for climate tracking set out in Annex VI to Regulation (EU) 2021/241.
That methodology should be used accordingly for measures that cannot be directly assigned to an intervention field listed in that Annex.
If the Member State concerned and the Commission agree, it should be possible to increase the coefficients for support for the climate objectives to 40 % or 100 % for individual investments, as explained in the recovery and resilience plan, to take account of accompanying reform measures that credibly increase their impact on the climate objectives.
To that end, it should be possible to increase the coefficients for support for the climate objectives up to a total amount of 3 % of the allocation of the recovery and resilience plan for individual investments.
The Facility should support activities that fully respect the climate and environmental standards and priorities of the Union and the principle of ‘do no significant harm’.
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Member States should, where relevant, include in REPowerEU chapters measures having a cross-border or multicountry dimension or effect, as identified in the Commission’s most recent needs assessment, contributing, among other things, to generating European added value.
It should also be taken into account that measures carried out in one Member State could have spill-over effects in other Member States.
The Commission should facilitate co-operation between Member States as early as possible with a view to developing measures having a cross-border or multi-country dimension or effect to be included in the REPowerEU chapters.
Member States should strive to ensure those measures account for an amount that represents at least 30 % of the estimated costs of the measures in the REPowerEU chapter.
In addition to measures having a cross-border or multi-country dimension or effect, measures at national level that contribute to securing energy supply in the Union as a whole, in line with the REPowerEU objectives, in particular as regards addressing existing bottlenecks in terms of energy transmission, distribution and storage, as identified in the Commission’s most recent needs assessment, thereby increasing the potential for cross-border flows between Member States, should be considered as having a cross-border or multicountry dimension or effect.
Measures reducing dependency on fossil fuels and reducing energy demand should also be considered as having a positive cross-border effect as they free up further capacity or supply for other Member States.
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An appropriate assessment criterion should be added to serve as a basis for the Commission to assess the crossborder or multi-country dimension or effect of the reforms and investments in the REPowerEU chapters.