Review of CCS Directive Sample Clauses

Review of CCS Directive. Following Article 38 of the CCS Directive, the EU Commission presented a review of the directive in 2015.95 It appears that most EU member states have correctly implemented the directive. However, it also stated that due to the very low level of CCS activities a full-scale evaluation of the CCS Directive was not feasible. The reason for the lack of CCS projects in the European Union was not caused by any fault in the legislation. The European Commission concluded that the Directive is not to blame for the limited development of CCS in Europe as this is the result of factors outside of the scope of the 92 Recital 30 & 34 Directive 2009/31/EC. 93 Rec. 30 Directive 2009/31/EC. 94 Xxxxxxxx in X. Xxxxxxxxxx, X. Xxxxxxx and X. Xxxxxxx (eds.), ‘Carbon capture and storage: emerging legal and regulatory issues’, 2018, P. 333 – 334. 95 European Commission, ‘Report on review of Directive 2009/31/EC on the geological storage of carbon dioxide’, COM(2015)576 final. Directive.96 The directive is internally coherent,97 and the Directive strikes the right balance between harmonization on the EU level and leaving other areas, public acceptance for example, to the member states.98 The Commission also found that stakeholders did not desire an amendment of the CCS Directive as this would only create uncertainty for the industry. The next review of the CCS Directive should be carried out when more experience is available with CCS in the EU.99