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Subject: WG: Letter from AT BE DE DK ES LU IE - Taxonomy Delegated Act
Dear
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Executive Vice-President Timmermans, Executive Vice-President Dombrovskis and Commissioner
McGuinness.
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Betreff: Letter from AT BE DE DK ES LU IE - Taxonomy Delegated Act
Dear President, Executive Vice-Presidents and Commissioner,
on behalf of the undersigned Ministers, I have the pleasure to send you attached a
courtesy copy of the letter mentioned in the subject.
Best regards,
Leonore Gewessler
Federal Ministry Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation & Technology Leonore Gewessler
Radetzkystraße 2, A-1030 Vienna
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Ref. Ares(2021)2584911 - 16/04/2021
Ms Ursula von der Leyen
President of the European Commission
Mr Frans Timmermans
Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal
Mr Valdis Dombrovskis
Executive Vice-President for an Economy that Works for the People
Ms Mairead McGuinness
European Commissioner for Financial Services, Financial Stability and Capital Markets Union
16 April 2021
Subject: Taxonomy Delegated Act
Dear President, Executive Vice-Presidents and Commissioner,
The Commission services are currently preparing the delegated act for the Taxonomy
Regulation regarding the environmental objectives of climate change mitigation and climate
change adaptation.
We would like to reiterate our support for a science-based, credible and target-oriented
taxonomy. There is an urgent need to act quickly and decisively in order to mobilise private
capital for the transition towards a climate-neutral European Union by 2050. The taxonomy
can provide much-needed clarity by indicating which economic activities support this overall
goal and the European Green Deal.
Due to the high level of interest on the market and wealth of feedback in the public
consultation regarding this delegated act, the date of its adoption was pushed back to the
end of April this year. In the meantime, some stakeholders are pressing to delay the adoption
of the delegated act even further.
We would hereby like to urge the European Commission
to maintain the time schedule and not delay the legislative process again. Investments
that contribute to the environmental objectives without doing any significant harm are
urgently needed. Legal certainty is of utmost importance to market players, who are calling
for a swift adoption of the delegated act in light of the disclosure obligations laid down in the
regulation entering into force on 1 January 2022.
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Leonore Gewessler
Gernot Blümel
Minister of Climate Action, Environment,
Minister of Finance, Austria
Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology,
Austria
Zakia Khattabi
Minister of the Climate, the Environment,
Sustainable Development and Green Deal,
Belgium
Simon Kollerup
Minister for Industry, Business and Financial
Affairs, Denmark
Svenja Schulze
Federal Minister for Environment, Nature
Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany
Eamon Ryan
Minister for the Environment, Climate and
Communications, Minister for Transport, Ireland
Carole Dieschbourg
Minister for Climate and the Environment,
Luxembourg
Teresa Ribera
Vice-President and Minister for the Ecological
Transition and the Demographic Challenge,
Spain
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