Request for Internal Review of Administrative Omission by the Commission to Submit to a Proposal to Implement the Fuel Quality Directive

On behalf of Transport & Environment, Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth Europe (hereinafter “Applicants”), we submit this request for internal review (RIR) under Article 10 of the Aarhus Regulation1on the Commission’s administrative omission, namely the failure to submit, in accordance with Article 5(a)(4) of Decision 1999/468/EC,2 the proposal necessary for the adoption of the implementation measures of Article 7a of the Fuel Quality Directive (FQD),3 in particular the fuel baseline standard and greenhouse gas emission calculation methodologies. Applicants are entitled to make this RIR under Article 11 of the Aarhus Regulation – see annex submitted with this RIR.