Consultation on the Impact Assessment of the enabling legal framework for CCS

On 10 January 2007, the Commission adopted a Communication on "Sustainable Power Generation from Fossil Fuels: aiming for near-zero emissions from coal after 2020". The Communication outlined the Commission's intention to bring forward an enabling legal and policy framework for carbon capture and geological storage. The scope of this framework, and the options for establishing it, were examined on May 8, 2007, in the Working Group on carbon capture and geological storage set up under the European Climate Change Programme II.

The objective of the examination in the ECCP II Working Group was to consult Member States and stakeholders (industry, NGOs, research and academia) on the scope of the impact assessment, the options for managing risks, removing barriers and promoting deployment, and the process for assessing the impacts of the options. Documents of the ECCP II Working Group meeting on CCS:

Two background papers on the impact assessment for the enabling legal framework were submitted to participants before the meeting

• Choices for regulating CO2 capture and storage in the EU
• Incentivising CO2 capture and storage in the EU

Comments on the policy approaches set out in the documents were accepted until 30 May 2007.

• Agenda
• Presentations
  • Presentation by the European Commission: Carbon capture & Storage. What is it and why we need it
  • View from Member States (Netherlands): Making large scale CCS work in the Netherlands
  • View from NGOs (WWF): CCS - an uncomfortable but necessary option
  • View from the Zero Emission Technology Platform (ZEP)
  • European Commission – Preliminary Report on EU public consultation
  • Report on ACCSEPT CCS Expert study
  • European Commission - Air pollution impacts of CCS
  • Options for managing risks and removing barriers
  • Options for stimulating deployment of CCS – CCS in the Emissions Trading Scheme
  • Other options for stimulating deployment of CCS
  • European Commission: Outline of legal framework and further planning of impact assessment
• Report of the meeting
• Report to the CCS public internet consultation
• Appendix to the CCS public internet consultation report

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