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Response to Circular Economy Act

6 Nov 2025

Royal Vopak welcomes the opportunity to provide input on the European Commission's Call for Evidence for a Circular Economy Act. We are committed to the energy transition, are involved in the development of a storage plant for pyrolysis oil from chemical recycling in the Netherlands. Our response to the consultation is attached. In short, we support the EUs push towards a circular economy but recognize current challenges in competitiveness to be included in the considerations for future legislation, call for harmonization of regulation in the internal market and caution overlap of regulations to be addressed in the impact assessment, and point to stimulating demand.
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Response to Legislative initiative on CO2 transportation infrastructure and markets

11 Sept 2025

Royal Vopak welcomes the opportunity to provide input on the European Commission's Call for Evidence concerning the development of a CO market and infrastructure in the EU. We are committed to the energy transition, underscored by our pledge to invest EUR 1 billion in infrastructure for the energy and feedstock transition by 2030. Vopak is actively developing CO infrastructure solutions. In the EU, we are involved in the development of projects in ports such as Rotterdam, Eemshaven, and Antwerp. Please see the attached file for our full response. In short, our key considerations for a well-functioning EU CO market and infrastructure: 1. Include liquid CO2 in the scope of the market framework 2. Equal EU application of the London Protocol 3. Building the business case 4. Managing liability and risk 5. Establishing EU-wide CO quality standards 6. Negotiated third party access for CO2 terminals Concludingly, Royal Vopak is fully committed to building the infrastructure needed for a European CO market. A clear, supportive, and comprehensive regulatory framework will be crucial to unlocking the necessary private investment. We thank the Commission for its leadership and remain ready to provide further insights from our practical experience in developing CO infrastructure across Europe.
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Response to EU rules for the calculation and reporting of recycled content in single-use plastic bottles

19 Aug 2025

At Vopak, we welcome the European Commission's draft Implementing Decision laying down rules for the calculation, verification, and reporting of recycled plastic content in single-use plastic beverage bottles. The proposal, in our view, rightfully includes and acknowledges the role of chemical recycling to contribute to Europes circular economy and climate targets and ambitions. In this respect, we see it as a technology complementing, rather than competing with, mechanical recycling. We support the mass balance accounting methodology, as this is essential for allowing chemical recycling to contribute to the recycling objectives. Also, we value the proposal in being, when approved, directly applicable to all Member States to ensure a level playing field within the EU. For imports, we understand import of plastic waste including in processed form like pyrolysis oil is allowed as long as its origin qualifies as such. This is important for chemical recycling to scale-up. Ensuring a level-playing field, e.g. equal treatment of imports of plastic waste to that within the EU, is thus important, too. Yet, we note that the proposal, and thus the points on chemical recycling and mass balancing, applies for the recycled plastic content in single-use plastic beverage bottles. This is only a part of the plastics market for recycling, and thus we strongly argue to apply these rules also for other plastic waste, like as addressed in the recent Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (EU 2025/40). We ask the European Commission to prevent undue complexity in the mass balance attribution accounting methodology to reduce risk of misrepresentation, and ensure legislative clarity by aligning with requirements in other regulations, like Regulation EU 2022/1616, and EU 2025/40. Finally, as projects into chemical recycling are already progressing, we call for a swift approval of the proposal to ensure legal clarity.
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Meeting with Magda Kopczynska (Director-General Mobility and Transport)

24 Mar 2025 · Visit Vopak's Banyan Terminal

Meeting with Magda Kopczynska (Director-General Mobility and Transport) and TotalEnergies SE and

23 Mar 2025 · Exchange of views with EU maritime industry on key maritime policy developments in Singapore and ASEAN

Response to Greenhouse gas emissions savings methodology for low-carbon fuels

24 Oct 2024

At Vopak, the worlds largest independent tank terminal company, we help the world flow forward: we are part of the hydrogen value chain by developing terminals for hydrogen and hydrogen carriers, based on their demand in the market. As such, the Delegated Act for Low Carbon Hydrogen (DA LCH) affects us directly. 1. We welcome the clarity on the definition for Low Carbon Hydrogen (LCH). 2. It is positive that carbon captured stored and permanently bound in long-lasting products can now be deducted from the carbon footprint of produced fuels. 3. In the global market we note supplies of LCH are being developed - especially so-called blue hydrogen (based on natural gas reforming + CCS), including through carriers like ammonia, LOHC and Liquid Hydrogen. This is important for the decarbonization of society, particularly industry, and for our business, due to the size of the foreseen volumes. 4. For efficient terminal operations, we need to be able to facilitate all types of hydrogen - RFNBO and LCH - per carrier, i.e. comingled handling (e.g. storage and transformation) should be possible. Additionally, we wish to share our broader market insights and concerns on the proposed standard: 1. We appreciate the consistency with the RFNBO standard, and for LCH the sole focus on emissions reduction - which after all is the main objective of climate action. 2. Although it is a step forward to having a standard for LCH, we expect demand in Europe to start developing - and supplies flowing - only when it is addressed by targets and financial support. 3. We support the generic view that using fuels with a (very) high footprint should not be used to produce LCH. However, we are worried about the strict life-cycle-emissions for LCH, particularly for so-called blue hydrogen (natural gas reforming + CCS) and its derivatives, leaving the start of a true EU hydrogen market even more challenging, and consequently decarbonization at large: a. We understand the need for measuring methane emissions in order to reduce them, as being set in the methane regulation. b. However, as the methodology for calculating the methane intensity is set to be defined in a Delegated Act under the Methane Regulation by 5 August 2027, the period until then mandates a flexible approach e.g. allowing other methodologies for approval by authorities to prevent projects nearing or already past Final Investment Decisions being called off. c. Should the measuring of the methane intensity take longer or is not (yet) available, the proposed DA LCH calls to use a standard value for methane emissions, plus 40%. Whereas the DA LCH provided standard value for methane intensity is, to our understanding, already quite high and remarkably higher than used in other regulations i.e. the Delegated Act on RFNBO, the application of the additional 40% will result in noncompliance. This will profoundly limit the start and ramping up of the hydrogen market through LCH, thereby negatively impacting decarbonization. d. Consequently, we believe it is necessary to allow some flexibility, especially for the early movers, and learn collectively from the development of these new low carbon value chains. 3. Moreover, as much as the standard brings clarity and therefore certainty for the EU, we wish to share our experience that suppliers outside the EU consider delivering much needed supplies to other regions where less detailed conditions apply while still contributing to decarbonization at large.
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Meeting with Diederik Samsom (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans) and Shell Companies and

1 Jun 2023 · Hydrogen

Meeting with Diederik Samsom (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans) and ExxonMobil Petroleum Chemical and

25 Apr 2023 · Energy, environmental and digital challenges of our time

Response to Revision of EU rules on Gas

12 Apr 2022

Vopak welcomes the proposed Hydrogen and Gas Directive and would like to take this opportunity to contribute by giving its views on hydrogen import terminals.
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