EU Methane Regulation Implementation Tracker

Implementation status overview

36 of 4,248 deadlines across 1 selected status ·

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Theme

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Obligation

Year range

2025 – 2030

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Austria·2025

Fully met

Art. 25(1) – Publication of an inventory of closed or abandoned underground mines

Subject:Coal (Closed, Underground)

Theme:Inventory

Lead Entity:Member State

Obligation Description

Publication of an inventory of closed or abandoned underground coal mines.

Implementation Assessment

Austria has published an official inventory of former underground coal mines explicitly marked as compliant with Article 25. The inventory is publicly available on the federal Methanverordnung webpage.

Due: By 05/08/2025

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Bulgaria·2025

Fully met

Art. 4(1) – Designation of national competent authorities

Subject:Cross-sector

Theme:Governance

Lead Entity:Member State

Obligation Description

Designation of national competent authorities responsible for the application of the Regulation.

Implementation Assessment

Competent Authority communicated to the European Commission: Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Bulgaria. Regarding the formal designation process, the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Bulgaria has been formally designated as the national Competent Authority responsible for the application of Regulation (EU) 2024/1787 through a decision adopted by the Bulgarian Council of Ministers in April 2026.

Due: By 05/02/2025

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Bulgaria·2025

Fully met

Art. 25(1) – Publication of an inventory of closed or abandoned underground mines

Subject:Coal (Closed, Underground)

Theme:Inventory

Lead Entity:Member State

Obligation Description

Publication of an inventory of closed or abandoned underground coal mines.

Implementation Assessment

Bulgaria has published a national report and inventory under Regulation (EU) 2024/1787 on the Ministry of Energy’s official reporting page. The document contains a dedicated section on closed underground coal mines and explicitly states that the information is provided in accordance with Annex VIII of the Regulation.

Due: By 05/08/2025

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Bulgaria·2025

Fully met

Art. 18(1) – Publication of an inventory of inactive, plugged and abandoned wells

Subject:Oil and Gas (Closed)

Theme:Inventory

Lead Entity:Member State

Obligation Description

Publication of an inventory of inactive, temporarily plugged, permanently plugged and abandoned wells.

Implementation Assessment

Bulgaria has published a national report and inventory under Regulation (EU) 2024/1787 on the Ministry of Energy’s official reporting page. The document explicitly states that the inventory of inactive, temporarily plugged, permanently plugged and abandoned wells is prepared in accordance with Article 18 and Annex V of the Regulation, and includes a public inventory table with well status categories.

Due: By 05/08/2025

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Croatia·2025

Fully met

Art. 33(1) – Adoption of sanctioning framework

Subject:Cross-sector

Theme:Penalties

Lead Entity:Member State

Obligation Description

Adoption of rules on sanctions applicable to violations of the Regulation.

Implementation Assessment

Croatia has adopted its national sanctioning framework for Regulation (EU) 2024/1787. The implementing law was adopted by the Croatian Parliament on 27 March 2026, published in Official Gazette NN 37/26 and entered into force on 16 April 2026. The law establishes competent authorities, inspection powers and penalty provisions for breaches by operators, mine operators, importers and EU producers.

Due: By 05/08/2025

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Croatia·2025

Fully met

Art. 4(1) – Designation of national competent authorities

Subject:Cross-sector

Theme:Governance

Lead Entity:Member State

Obligation Description

Designation of national competent authorities responsible for the application of the Regulation.

Implementation Assessment

Competent Authority communicated to the European Commission: Uprava za energetiku, Ministarstvo gospodarstva Republike Hrvatske (Energy Directorate, Ministry of Economy). The Croatian Parliament adopted the implementing law for Regulation (EU) 2024/1787 on 27 March 2026; it was published in Official Gazette NN 37/26 and entered into force on 16 April 2026.

Due: By 05/02/2025

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Croatia·2025

Fully met

Art. 18(1) – Publication of an inventory of inactive, plugged and abandoned wells

Subject:Oil and Gas (Closed)

Theme:Inventory

Lead Entity:Member State

Obligation Description

Publication of an inventory of inactive, temporarily plugged, permanently plugged and abandoned wells.

Implementation Assessment

Croatia has published a national inventory of inactive, plugged (temporarily and permanently) and abandoned oil and gas wells on its national GIS portal.

Due: By 05/08/2025

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Denmark·2025

Fully met

Art. 33(1) – Adoption of sanctioning framework

Subject:Cross-sector

Theme:Penalties

Lead Entity:Member State

Obligation Description

Adoption of rules on sanctions applicable to violations of the Regulation.

Implementation Assessment

Denmark has fully adopted and brought into force a national sanctioning framework implementing Art. 33(1). Law no. 1453 of 10 December 2024 and Executive Order no. 312 of 26 March 2025 establish the national rules on penalties for infringements of the Methane Regulation and are in force.

Due: By 05/08/2025

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Denmark·2025

Fully met

Art. 4(1) – Designation of national competent authorities

Subject:Cross-sector

Theme:Governance

Lead Entity:Member State

Obligation Description

Designation of national competent authorities responsible for the application of the Regulation.

Implementation Assessment

Competent Authority communicated to the European Commission: Danish Energy Agency (DEA). Regarding the formal designation process, the Danish Energy Agency (DEA) has been designated as the national Competent Authority.

Due: By 05/02/2025

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Denmark·2025

Fully met

Art. 18(1) – Publication of an inventory of inactive, plugged and abandoned wells

Subject:Oil and Gas (Closed)

Theme:Inventory

Lead Entity:Member State

Obligation Description

Publication of an inventory of inactive, temporarily plugged, permanently plugged and abandoned wells.

Implementation Assessment

An inventory of inactive, temporarily plugged, permanently plugged and abandoned oil and gas wells has been published by the Danish Energy Agency, including a public map interface. The inventory is presented as an Article 18(1) deliverable and appears to cover the information requirements set out in the Regulation’s relevant annex.

Due: By 05/08/2025

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Germany·2025

Fully met

Art. 27(1) – Submission of information on import flows

Subject:EU Market

Theme:MRV

Lead Entity:Importer

Obligation Description

Submission to the competent authorities of the requested information on gas, oil and coal import flows.

Implementation Assessment

BAFA, the competent authority for import-related obligations, officially confirms that importers have submitted the required information on gas, oil and coal import flows under Article 27(1), and that these data have been transmitted to the European Commission. No public access to the reports is provided at national level, but their submission is explicitly confirmed by BAFA.

Due: By 05/05/2025

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Germany·2025

Fully met

Art. 27(2) – Transmission of information on import flows

Subject:EU Market

Theme:MRV

Lead Entity:Competent Authority

Obligation Description

Transmission to the European Commission of the information received from importers, as per Art. 27(1).

Implementation Assessment

BAFA, the competent authority for import-related obligations, officially states that the import-flow data received from importers have been transmitted to the European Commission under Article 27(2).

Due: By 05/08/2025

Hungary·2025

Fully met

Art. 33(1) – Adoption of sanctioning framework

Subject:Cross-sector

Theme:Penalties

Lead Entity:Member State

Obligation Description

Adoption of rules on sanctions applicable to violations of the Regulation.

Implementation Assessment

Part IV/D (§48/F) of the Mining Act (Act XLVIII/1993) establishes the following financial penalties: legal persons may be fined from 500,000 HUF up to 20% of their net annual turnover, while natural persons may be fined from 100,000 HUF up to 20% of their net annual income. No warning mechanism is permitted, and repeated infringements must result in a fine at least 1.5 times higher than the previous one. The fine must not endanger the security of energy supply, and if an implementation schedule is approved under Article 15(8), the authority may not take action for violations of Article 33(5)(i) until that schedule expires.

Due: By 05/08/2025

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Hungary·2025

Fully met

Art. 4(1) – Designation of national competent authorities

Subject:Cross-sector

Theme:Governance

Lead Entity:Member State

Obligation Description

Designation of national competent authorities responsible for the application of the Regulation.

Implementation Assessment

Competent Authority communicated to the European Commission: The Supervisory Authority for Regulated activities (Szabályozott Tevékenységek Felügyeleti Hatósága). Regarding the formal designation process, the Hungarian Mining Authority has been designated as the national CA through the amendment of the Mining Act (Act XLVIII/1993) by Act LXXXIX/2024, which introduces Part IV/D and §43/B(13).

Due: By 05/02/2025

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Hungary·2025

Fully met

Art. 25(1) – Publication of an inventory of closed or abandoned underground mines

Subject:Coal (Closed, Underground)

Theme:Inventory

Lead Entity:Member State

Obligation Description

Publication of an inventory of closed or abandoned underground coal mines.

Implementation Assessment

Hungary has published the official inventory of deep underground coal mines closed after 3 August 1954. A .pdf document describing the methodology and regulatory context, a second .pdf containing the full list of closed and abandoned mining sites, and two .kmz files are provided: one showing the spatial locations of all 57 mining sites (telephelyek) and one showing the 303 associated objects (objektumok) such as shafts, galleries and other potential point-source structures.

Due: By 05/08/2025

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Hungary·2025

Fully met

Art. 18(1) – Publication of an inventory of inactive, plugged and abandoned wells

Subject:Oil and Gas (Closed)

Theme:Inventory

Lead Entity:Member State

Obligation Description

Publication of an inventory of inactive, temporarily plugged, permanently plugged and abandoned wells.

Implementation Assessment

Hungary has activated a dedicated webpage for the implementation of Art.18(1) containing the inventory of all inactive, temporarily plugged, and permanently plugged or abandoned oil and gas wells in .pdf and .kmz formats. According to the published dataset, 6,349 wells are included in the inventory.

Due: By 05/08/2025

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Hungary·2025

Fully met

Art. 33(8) – Publication of annual information on penalties imposed

Subject:Cross-sector

Theme:Penalties

Lead Entity:Member State

Obligation Description

Publication of annual information on penalties imposed (type, amount, infringements, operators/importers sanctioned).

Implementation Assessment

Hungary has published the annual information on penalties imposed under the Regulation (EU) 2024/1787, as required under Art. 33(8). The total amount of penalties imposed in 2025 is 4,000,000 HUF, applied to 6 different operators, with individual fines ranging between 500,000 HUF and 1,000,000 HUF

Due: By the end of 2025

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Hungary·2025

Fully met

Art. 20(7) – Publication of methane emissions reports

Subject:Coal (Active, Underground and Surface)

Theme:MRV

Lead Entity:Competent Authority

Obligation Description

Publication of the reports on methane emissions at the source level, as per Art. 20(6).

Implementation Assessment

The Hungarian Competent Authority has published the source-level methane emissions reports submitted by active coal mine operators on its dedicated Methane Regulation webpage, as required under Art. 20(7).

Due: By 05/11/2025

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Hungary·2025

Fully met

Art. 12(8) – Publication of methane emissions reports

Subject:Oil and Gas (Active, Operated and non-operated)

Theme:MRV

Lead Entity:Competent Authority

Obligation Description

Publication of reports on methane emissions, as per Art. 12(1-3).

Implementation Assessment

The Hungarian Competent Authority has published the source-level methane emissions reports submitted by oil and gas operators on a dedicated webpage, as required by Art. 12(8). As of the assessment date, a total of 31 reports have been published and are publicly accessible.

Due: By 05/11/2025

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Hungary·2025

Fully met

Art. 12(1-3) – Submission of methane emissions reports

Subject:Oil and Gas (Active, Operated and non-operated)

Theme:MRV

Lead Entity:Oil & Gas Operator

Obligation Description

Submission to the competent authorities of methane emissions report using generic emission factors, as per Art. 12(1-3).

Implementation Assessment

Submission of the annual source-level methane emissions reports by oil and gas operators can be considered fulfilled, as the reports have been published by the Hungarian Competent Authority, as required under Art. 12(8). However, information from the Methane Regulation Expert Group (25 September 2025) indicates that some reports were incomplete, notably with missing elements under points (e) and (f) of Art. 12(4), and that further verification is ongoing for operators declaring zero emissions.

Due: By 05/08/2025

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Hungary·2025

Fully met

Art. 20(6) – Submission of methane emissions reports

Subject:Coal (Active, Underground and Surface)

Theme:MRV

Lead Entity:Coal Operator

Obligation Description

Submission to the competent authorities of the annual report quantifying methane emissions at source level, as per Art. 20(1-3).

Implementation Assessment

As of the assessment date, 5 coal-sector methane-emission reports have been submitted and are publicly accessible on the Hungarian Competent Authority’s website. Nevertheless, information presented to the Methane Regulation Expert Group on 25 September 2025 indicates that a number of reports suffered from completeness issues, including missing or misinterpreted reporting elements, and that additional checks were initiated for operators declaring zero emissions.

Due: By 05/08/2025

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Italy·2025

Fully met

Art. 18(1) – Publication of an inventory of inactive, plugged and abandoned wells

Subject:Oil and Gas (Closed)

Theme:Inventory

Lead Entity:Member State

Obligation Description

Publication of an inventory of inactive, temporarily plugged, permanently plugged and abandoned wells.

Implementation Assessment

MASE has published the official inventory, which covers wells closed over the past 30 years (from 1 January 1994), in line with Recitals (46)-(47) and Annex V of the Regulation. The inventory includes 1,614 wells across 346 fields, of which 538 are offshore and 1,067 onshore, classified into: 866 inactive wells, 123 temporarily plugged wells, and 625 permanently plugged and abandoned wells.

Due: By 05/08/2025

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Italy·2025

Fully met

Art. 12(8) – Publication of methane emissions reports

Subject:Oil and Gas (Active, Operated and non-operated)

Theme:MRV

Lead Entity:Competent Authority

Obligation Description

Publication of reports on methane emissions, as per Art. 12(1-3).

Implementation Assessment

UNMIG and MASE uploaded the methane-emissions reports on their institutional websites, covering upstream, distribution, transmission, storage and LNG regasification activities.

Due: By 05/11/2025

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Italy·2025

Fully met

Art. 12(1-3) – Submission of methane emissions reports

Subject:Oil and Gas (Active, Operated and non-operated)

Theme:MRV

Lead Entity:Oil & Gas Operator

Obligation Description

Submission to the competent authorities of methane emissions report using generic emission factors, as per Art. 12(1-3).

Implementation Assessment

As emerged after publication pursuant to Article 12(8), methane-emissions reports were submitted across all segments of the Italian gas value chain. Publicly available reports indicate submissions from 11 upstream oil and gas operators, 66 gas distribution companies, 5 transmission operators, 1 LNG regasification operator and 1 storage operator, for a total of 84 reports.

Due: By 05/08/2025

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