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This subtopic brings together a series of trackers and overviews of key legislative and policy packages to enable energy lawyers to keep up to date with, and plan for, legislative, strategic, and policy developments in the EU.

Trackers

The EU energy tracker 2025 displays key new and upcoming EU legislation and consultations of interest to energy lawyers from 1 January 2025. This tracker is divided into the following sections:

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    Legislation—new in 2025

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    Legislation—horizon scanning

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    Consultations

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    Key non-legislative materials

The EU energy cases tracker 2025 displays key judgments and opinions from the General Court of the EU and the Court of Justice of the EU handed down from 1 January 2025 which may be of interest to energy lawyers. The tracker is updated monthly.

The following trackers cover legislation enacted, consultations conducted, and cases decided in 2024. These trackers are no longer maintained:

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    EU energy tracker 2024

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    EU energy cases tracker 2024

The European Green Deal—tracker covers policy developments at the EU level under the European Green Deal, the European Commission’s roadmap for moving to

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Latest EU Law News

ECON Committee proposes major changes to EU corporate sustainability reporting rules

The European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) adopted an opinion on 15 July 2025, proposing significant amendments to EU corporate sustainability reporting requirements. The opinion recommends increasing the reporting threshold to companies with over 5,000 employees and €450m in net worldwide turnover, replacing the current 1,000-employee threshold. For value chain reporting, companies would be prevented from seeking information from business partners below these thresholds, thereby significantly reducing reporting obligations.

EU countries endorse EUR93 billion US retaliation package; Hungary opposes

Law360, London: EU governments approved on 24 July 2025 a €93bn package of retaliatory tariffs against the US, with only Hungary voting against the measure. The tariffs, which consolidate two earlier packages targeting US steel, aluminium and car duties, are set to take effect by 7 August 2025 if talks with Washington collapse. The vote comes as the EU and US move closer to a broader trade agreement that could set a 15% baseline tariff on EU exports.

European Commission publishes guidelines for green bond disclosure templates

The European Commission has published guidelines establishing voluntary pre-issuance disclosure templates for bonds marketed as either environmentally sustainable or sustainability-linked. These templates support the EU's objective of achieving climate neutrality by 2050 by standardising disclosures for issuers using the EU Taxonomy, thereby complementing the European Green Bond Standard and filling a market gap in demonstrating taxonomy-aligned bond proceeds allocation. The guidelines provide two detailed templates: one for environmentally sustainable bonds, which requires issuers to detail their environmental strategy, the intended allocation of bond proceeds, environmental impacts, and reporting commitments; and another for sustainability-linked bonds, which focuses on the environmental strategy, bond characteristics, performance indicators, and reporting requirements.

European Parliament publishes study on AI and civil liability

The European Parliament’s Policy Department for Justice, Civil Liberties and Institutional Affairs has published a study examining the EU’s regulatory approach to civil liability for artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The study, commissioned at the request of the Committee on Legal Affairs, recommends implementing a strict liability regime for high-risk AI systems. It advocates for a single responsible operator model to prevent regulatory fragmentation across EU Member States and emphasises the importance of legal certainty, efficiency and harmonisation in the regulatory framework.

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