Bellona Europa welcomes the revision of the Governance Regulation as a vital chance to reaffirm the EU’s commitment to its climate and energy goals.

We welcome the Commission’s evaluation report and the supporting analyses, which together provide a comprehensive overview of the Regulation’s current implementation status and improvement needs. For this reason, we support the initiative to revise the Regulation’s architecture. However, any revision of the architecture must preserve and strengthen the EU’s level of ambition to ensure continued progress towards deep decarbonisation.

In this brief, Bellona presents the main recommendations on four key pillars: the new architecture framework and scope; the role and structure of the NECPs; the energy planning; and transparency and public participation.

Read more in our position paper.