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EU Methane Emissions Regulation
Romania’s draft penalty regime
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Piria, Raffaele – reviewed by Elena Ocenic (2026): EU Methane Emissions Regulation: Romania’s draft penalty regime. Analysis of the draft Emergency Ordinance of April 2026. Ecologic Institute, Berlin.
This report examines the penalty provisions contained in the revised Draft Emergency Ordinance (DEO) proposed by the Romanian government in April 2026 to implement the EU Methane Emissions Regulation (EUMR).
It identifies eight provisions of Article 33 that are not, or only partially, implemented and concludes that the DEO contains significant elements of non-compliance. The main concerns include the risk that only a single sanction may be imposed for an unlimited number of infringements within the same oil and gas field, that penalties for violations at large assets are subject to ministerial discretion, that penalty levels are very low and lack a deterrent effect, that the draft contains important loopholes and that it does not implement specific requirements of Article 33 EUMR.
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English
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Reviewed by Elena Ocenic (Bucharest University of Economic Studies)
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Ecologic Institute, Germany - Year
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- 26 pp.
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Methane Emissions Regulation, Methane abatement, Methane Mitigation, Energy Sector RomaniaRomania
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