Bindingness’ on Member States and EU monitoring Sample Clauses

Bindingness’ on Member States and EU monitoring. In many cases, the EU instruments relevant to the just transition are recommendations and guidelines to the Member States, which leave countries considerable freedom as to whether and how to implement just transition policies. There needs to be better and more stringent EU monitoring of national just transition policies, especially regarding the 2022 Commission Recommendation on ensuring a fair transition towards climate neutrality and other instruments for which the Commission undertook to formulate just transition guidelines. The European Semester and the National Energy and Climate plans (NECPs) emerge as key governance procedures in this respect.
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Bindingness’ on Member States and EU monitoring. In many cases, the EU instruments relevant to the just transition are recommendations and guidelines to the Member States, which leave countries considerable freedom as to whether and how to implement just transition policies. The 2022 Council Recommendation on ensuring a fair transition towards climate neutrality calls on the Member States to implement coherent and consistent policy packages, combining a ‘whole of society’ approach with a more ‘granular’ approach. The 2022 Council Recommendation is, however, a non-binding instrument. To be sure, the fact that the Member States have room for manoeuvre in policy elaboration and implementation is not necessarily a shortcoming: it is a matter of subsidiarity and competences, coupled with the need to design initiatives suited to national and regional specificities. Nevertheless, better and more stringent monitoring of national just transition policies at the EU level appears necessary, especially regarding the non-binding 2022 Council Recommendation on a fair transition and for instruments for which the Commission undertook to formulate just transition guidelines (e.g. the LULUCF Regulation). Several assessments underline that currently, the low level of bindingness, combined with a lack of adequate monitoring, make it less likely that just transition considerations will be reflected in policy implementation. The ESABCC (2024:234) notes that ‘despite the better regulation toolbox being equipped with instructions regarding their assessment, distributional and wider socioeconomic impacts analysis remains limited and non-systematic’. The European Commission (2023d) states, in its assessment of progress towards the objectives of the Energy Union and Climate Action, that of the six Member States which finished the mandated assessment on support schemes for renewable energy, five included information on their effectiveness, but with no, limited or unclear information on their distributive effects. More in general, as already mentioned, Member States do not usually have comprehensive just transition strategies in place (Council of the European Union 2023). Against this backdrop, more and better EU monitoring is crucial. This would help ensure consistency among the various instruments relevant to the just transition, and make it more likely for the just transition dimension to be taken into account in Member States’ policies. The European Semester and the NECPs emerge as key governance procedures to make sure that a c...

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