EU LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES FOR 2022

European Green Deal

1. Proposal for a DECISION concerning the amount of allowances to be placed in the market stability reserve for the Union greenhouse gas emission trading scheme until 2030

2. Proposal for a REGULATION establishing a Social Climate Fund

3. Proposal for DECISION on the notification of offsetting in respect of a global market-based measure for aircraft operators based in the Union

4. Proposal for a REGULATION establishing a carbon border adjustment mechanism

5. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE restructuring the Union framework for the taxation of energy products and electricity (recast)

6. Proposal for a REGULATION on the use of renewable and low-carbon fuels in maritime transport and amending Directive 2009/16/EC

7. Proposal for a REGULATION on ensuring a level playing field for sustainable air transport

8. Proposal for a REGULATION on the deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure, and repealing Directive 2014/94/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council

9. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE on energy efficiency (recast)

10. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE as regards the promotion of energy from renewable sources, and repealing Council Directive (EU) 2015/652

11. Proposal for a REGULATION on strengthening the CO2 emission performance standards for new passenger cars and new light commercial vehicles in line with the Union’s increased climate ambition

12. Proposal for a REGULATION on binding annual greenhouse gas emission reductions by Member States from 2021 to 2030 contributing to climate action to meet commitments under the Paris Agreement

13. Proposal for a REGULATION concerning the scope, simplifying the compliance rules, setting out the targets of the Member States for 2030 and committing to the collective achievement of climate neutrality by 2035 in the land use, forestry and agriculture sector, and concerning improvement in monitoring, reporting, tracking of progress and review

14. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE on aviation's contribution to the Union’s economy-wide emission reduction target and appropriately implementing a global market-based measure Files carried over from the 2021 Joint Declaration Joint Declaration on EU Legislative Priorities for 2022 – Working document

15. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE establishing a system for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Union, and concerning the establishment and operation of a market stability reserve for the Union greenhouse gas emission trading scheme

16. Proposal for a REGULATION on guidelines for trans-European energy infrastructure (Revision of the TEN-E Regulation)

17. Proposal for a REGULATION on methane emissions reduction in the energy sector

18. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE on the energy performance of buildings

19. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE on common rules for the internal markets in renewable and natural gases and in hydrogen

20. Proposal for a REGULATION on the internal markets for renewable and natural gases and for hydrogen (recast)

21. Review of EU rules on fluorinated greenhouse gases

22. Proposal for a REGULATION on shipments of waste

23. Proposal for a REGULATION on the making available on the Union market as well as export from the Union of certain commodities and products associated with deforestation and forest degradation

24. Proposal for a REGULATION amending Annexes IV and V to Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 on persistent organic pollutants

25. New legal framework on the restoration of healthy ecosystems

26. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE on the protection of the environment through criminal law

27. Revision of Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 on classification, labelling and packaging

28. Integrated water management – revised lists of surface and groundwater pollutants

29. Revision of EU ambient air quality legislation

30. Sustainable use of pesticides – revision of the EU rules

31. Empowering the consumer for the green transition Files carried over from the 2021 Joint Declaration Joint Declaration on EU Legislative Priorities for 2022 – Working document

32. Sustainable products policy initiative, including a revision of the Ecodesign Directive

33. Initiative on the right to repair

34. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE on the framework for the deployment of Intelligent Transport Systems in the field of road transport and for interfaces with other modes of transport

35. Proposal for a REGULATION on Union guidelines for the development of the trans-European transport network

36. Development of post-Euro 6/VI pollutant standards for cars, vans, lorries and buses

37. Proposal for a REGULATION on the capacity of the European Union Aviation Safety Agency to act as Performance Review Body of the Single European Sky

38. Proposal for a REGULATION on the implementation of the Single European Sky (recast)

39. Proposal for a REGULATION establishing common rules on compensation and assistance to passengers in the event of denied boarding and of cancellation or long delay of flights and Regulation (EC) No 2027/97 on air carrier liability in respect of the carriage of passengers and their baggage by air

40. Proposal for a REGULATION on common rules for the allocation of slots at European Union airports

41. Proposal for a REGULATION on fisheries control

A Europe fit for the Digital Age

42. Data Act

43. Proposal for a REGULATION laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (artificial intelligence act) and amending certain Union legislative acts

44. Proposal for a REGULATION on contestable and fair markets in the digital sector (Digital Markets Act)

45. Proposal for a REGULATION on a Single Market For Digital Services (Digital Services Act) and amending Directive 2000/31/EC

46. Proposal for a REGULATION establishing a framework for a European Digital Identity

47. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE amending Directives 2006/43/EC, 2009/65/EC, 2009/138/EU, 2011/61/EU, EU/2013/36, 2014/65/EU, (EU) 2015/2366 and EU/2016/2341 Files carried over from the 2021 Joint Declaration Joint Declaration on EU Legislative Priorities for 2022 – Working document

48. Proposal for a REGULATION on digital operational resilience for the financial sector (DORA)

49. Proposal for a REGULATION on Markets in Crypto-assets, (MICA)

50. European cyber resilience act

51. Proposal for a REGULATION concerning the respect for private life and the protection of personal data in electronic communications

52. European chips act

53. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE on improving working conditions in platform work

54. Proposal for a REGULATION on type approval of motor vehicles with respect to emissions from light passenger and commercial vehicles (Euro 5 and Euro 6) and on access to vehicle repair and maintenance information

55. Proposal for a REGULATION on foreign subsidies distorting the internal market

56. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making available on the market of radio equipment

57. Proposal for a REGULATION on machinery products

58. New design requirements and consumer rights for electronics

59. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE on measures for a high common level of cybersecurity across the Union, repealing Directive (EU) 2016/1148 60. Building an EU space-based global secure communication system

61. Single market emergency instrument

An Economy that Works for People

62. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE on adequate minimum wages in the European Union

63. Proposal for a REGULATION on the coordination of social security systems

64. Protection of workers from the risks related to exposure to asbestos at work Files carried over from the 2021 Joint Declaration Joint Declaration on EU Legislative Priorties for 2022 – Working document

65. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE on markets in financial instruments

66. Proposal for a REGULATION establishing a European single access point providing centralised access to publicly available information of relevance to financial services, capital markets and sustainability

67. Proposal for a REGULATION concerning the scope of eligible assets and investments, the portfolio composition and diversification requirements, the borrowing of cash and other fund rules and as regards requirements pertaining to the authorisation, investment policies and operating conditions of European long-term investment funds

68. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE concerning the delegation arrangements, liquidity risk management, supervisory reporting, provision of depositary and custody services and loan origination by alternative investment funds

69. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE establishing a framework for the recovery and resolution of insurance and reinsurance undertakings

70. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE concerning proportionality, quality of supervision, reporting, long-term guarantee measures, macro-prudential tools, sustainability risks, group and cross-border supervision

71. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE on credit servicers, credit purchasers and the recovery of collateral

72. Initiative on instant payments in the EU

73. Facilitating small and medium sized enterprises’ access to capital

74. Initiative on harmonising certain aspects of substantive law on insolvency proceedings

 75. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE on the mechanisms to be put in place by the Member States for the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing

76. Proposal for a REGULATION on information accompanying transfers of funds and certain crypto-assets (recast)

77. Proposal for a REGULATION establishing the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism

78. Proposal for a REGULATION on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing

79. Proposal for a REGULATION concerning the prudential treatment of global systemically important institution groups with a multiple point of entry resolution strategy and a methodology for the indirect subscription of instruments eligible for meeting the minimum requirement for own funds and eligible liabilities

80. Proposal for a REGULATION concerning requirements for credit risk, credit valuation adjustment risk, operational risk, market risk and the output floor Files carried over from the 2021 Joint Declaration Joint Declaration on EU Legislative Priorties for 2022 – Working document

81. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE concerning supervisory powers, sanctions, third-country branches, and environmental, social and governance risks, and amending Directive 2014/59/EU

82. Proposal for a REGULATION establishing a European Deposit Insurance Scheme

83. Revision of the bank crisis management and deposit insurance framework

84. Proposal for a REGULATION on European green bonds

85. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE concerning corporate sustainability reporting

86. Sustainable corporate governance

87. Proposal for a REGULATION establishing the European Union Single Window Environment for Customs

88. Proposal on implementation of the OECD global agreement on re-allocation of taxing rights

89. Proposal on implementation of the OECD global agreement on minimum effective taxation

90. Proposal for a REGULATION on the protection of the Union and its Member States from economic coercion by third countries

91. Proposal for a REGULATION on applying a generalised scheme of tariff preferences

A Stronger Europe in the World

92. Proposal for a REGULATION on the access of third-country goods and services to the Union’s internal market in public procurement and procedures supporting negotiations on access of Union goods and services to the public procurement markets of third countries

93. Amendment of the blocking statute Regulation

94. Proposal for a REGULATION laying down rules for the adoption of enforcement and unilateral measures under the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the other part and of the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community Files carried over from the 2021 Joint Declaration Joint Declaration on EU Legislative Priorties for 2022 – Working document

Promoting our European Way of Life

95. Proposal for a REGULATION on serious cross-border threats to health and repealing Decision No 1082/2013/EU

96. European health data space

97. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE on the resilience of critical entities

98. Proposal for a REGULATION amending Regulation (EU) 2019/816 establishing a centralised system for the identification of Member States holding conviction information on third-country nationals and stateless persons (ECRIS-TCN) to supplement the European Criminal Records Information System and Regulation (EU) 2019/818 on establishing a framework for interoperability between EU information systems in the field of police and judicial cooperation, asylum and migration and amending Regulations (EU) 2018/1726, (EU) 2018/1862 and (EU) 2019/816 for the purpose of introducing a screening of third country nationals at the external borders

99. Proposal for a REGULATION addressing situations of instrumentalisation in the field of migration and asylum

100. Proposal for a REGULATION on a Union Code on the rules governing the movement of persons across borders

101. Digitalisation of visa procedures

102. Proposal for a REGULATION addressing situations of crisis and force majeure in the field of migration and asylum

103. Proposal for a REGULATION introducing a screening of third country nationals at the external borders

104. Proposal for a REGULATION on asylum and migration management

105. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE on common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals (recast)

106. Proposal for a REGULATION establishing a Union Resettlement Framework

107. Proposal for a REGULATION establishing a common procedure for international protection in the Union

108. Proposal for a REGULATION on standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection, for a uniform status for refugees or for persons eligible for subsidiary protection and for the content of the protection granted and amending Council Directive 2003/109/EC of 25 November 2003 concerning the status of third-country nationals who are long-term residents Files carried over from the 2021 Joint Declaration Joint Declaration on EU Legislative Priorties for 2022 – Working document

109. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE laying down standards for the reception of applicants for international protection (recast)

110. Proposal for a REGULATION on the establishment of 'Eurodac' for the comparison of fingerprints for the effective application of [Regulation (EU) No 604/2013 establishing the criteria and mechanisms for determining the Member State responsible for examining an application for international protection lodged in one of the Member States by a third-country national or a stateless person] , for identifying an illegally staying third-country national or stateless person and on requests for the comparison with Eurodac data by Member States' law enforcement authorities and Europol for law enforcement purposes (recast)

111. Recast of DIRECTIVE 2003/109/EC on long-term residents

112. Recast of DIRECTIVE 2011/98/EU on single permit

113. Proposal for a REGULATION concerning Europol’s cooperation with private parties, the processing of personal data by Europol in support of criminal investigations, and Europol’s role on research and innovation

114. Proposal for a REGULATION on the establishment, operation and use of the Schengen Information System (SIS) in the field of police cooperation and judicial cooperation in criminal matters as regards the entry of alerts by Europol

115. Legislation to effectively tackle child sexual abuse online

116. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE on information exchange between law enforcement authorities of Member States

117. Revision of the DIRECTIVE on the freezing and confiscation of the proceeds of crime

118. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE on Asset Recovery Offices

119. Obligation of carriers to communicate advance passenger data

A New Push for European Democracy

120. Proposal for a REGULATION on the statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations (recast)

121. Proposal for a REGULATION on the transparency and targeting of political advertising

122. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE laying down detailed arrangements for the exercise of the right to vote and to stand as a candidate in municipal elections by Union citizens residing in a Member State of which they are not nationals (recast) Files carried over from the 2021 Joint Declaration Joint Declaration on EU Legislative Priorties for 2022 – Working document

123. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE laying down detailed arrangements for the exercise of the right to vote and stand as a candidate in elections to the European Parliament for Union citizens residing in a Member State of which they are not nationals (recast)

124. Initiative against abusive litigation targeting journalists and rights defenders

125. European media freedom act

126. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE to strengthen the application of the principle of equal pay for equal work or work of equal value between men and women through pay transparency and enforcement mechanisms

127. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE on improving the gender balance among non-executive directors of companies listed on stock exchanges and related measures

128. Proposal to prevent and combat specific forms of gender-based violence

129. Recognition of parenthood between Member States

130. Strengthening the role and independence of equality bodies

131. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE laying down harmonised rules on the appointment of legal representatives for the purpose of gathering evidence in criminal proceedings

132. Proposal for a REGULATION on European Production and Preservation Orders for electronic evidence in criminal matters

133. Initiative on transfer of criminal proceedings

134. Proposal for a REGULATION concerning the digital information exchange in terrorism cases

135. Proposal for a REGULATION establishing a collaboration platform to support the functioning of Joint Investigation Teams

136. Proposal for a REGULATION on the digitalisation of judicial cooperation and access to justice in cross-border civil, commercial and criminal matters, and amending certain acts in the field of judicial cooperation

137. Proposal for a DIRECTIVE on consumer credits

138. Proposal for a REGULATION on general product safety

Summary

138 Legislative Priorities

• 2 Proposal for a Decision
• 33 Proposals for a Directive
• 4 Recast of a Directive
• 65 Proposals for a Regulation
• 1 Revision of Regulation