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A new CBAM framework more friendly for SME? EU Parliament adopted the “omnibus packaging” with simplifications for SME and occasional importers
The European Union is promoting a new CBAM legal framework in order to set out simplifications and reduction of administrative burden for smal medium enterprises and occasional importers. The Parliament greenlighted, with 617 votes to 18 and 19 abstentions, the Omnibus I “simplification package” presentend on 26 February 2025 (see press release “Commission simplifies rules on sustainability and EU investments, delivering over €6 billion in administrative relief ). From the CBAM standpoint, the amended law sets a new de minimis mass threshold whereby imports up to 50 tonnes per importer per year will not be subject to CBAM rules. It replaces the more generic current threshold exempting goods of negligible…