Hi,

Rebecca from Carbon Pulse.

I was wondering about the procedure,

what the common procedure is when

political parties in the European Parliament are

calling for a directive to be pulled

when it's at trilogue phase,

so to be killed or axed.

what is,

are there any precedents within,

you know,

in the past where this has happened,

and,

yeah,

what is the European Commission response to

this,

request from political parties,

thank you very much.

I'm not entirely sure I understood your question.

Well,

you're asking what is the procedure if

political parties in the parliament request,

sorry.

Request a uh directive to be killed.

So if a directive is being discussed in trilogues and political

parties decide that they don't actually want the directive anymore,

can they,

can this directive actually be pulled?

and you're indeed talking about an ongoing procedure.

um I'm talking about the green claims directive.

what I can see in procedural terms is that,

the right to withdraw a legal proposal lies with the commission.

The commission has,

as you know,

the right to initiative,

which basically means that the commission.

That on the basis of its work defending the interests of the European Union

can make new legislative proposals which go then to the co-legislator

and it's also the commission that has the right to

on the basis of its own assessment obviously

to withdraw or not withdraw its proposals.

Ask a follow-up question then.

So,

yeah,

what is your

position on the Green Claims Directive since now the

EPP and the ECR uh have asked to withdraw it.

Thank you very much,

Maciej.

Yes,

good afternoon.

Thank you for your question.

so I can say that in the current context,

indeed,

the Commission intends to withdraw the green claims proposal.

Thank you.

You have a follow up,

yes.

so it,

it just confirming that it's withdrawing and how does that work?

What is the process,

when it comes to that,

and what is the motivation behind that since

there's been two years of negotiation on the

directive.

I don't think we're in a position to share more information for now.

There's,

as said,

the intention to

withdraw the proposal.

We will see how to take things forward,

and I will invite you to bear with us

and to follow what is happening and of course

we'll keep you informed on next steps.

Thank you.

any other questions on?

sorry,

I'll go to you for a second.

I see that Moses has,

has raised his hand.

Is it on this?

No,

sorry,

it's not,

it's on something else,

Moses

I'll get back to you later.

Sorry,

you have a question?

No,

it's no problem,

we take new,

new topic now.