Recital 1

(1)The technical screening criteria set out in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2139 ² cover severaleconomic sectors and activities that have a potential to contribute to the Union climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation objectives. Those economic sectors and activities were chosen because of their share in overall greenhouse gas emissions, and their proven potential for avoiding the production of greenhouse gas emissions, reducing such emissions, or removing such emissions. In addition, those economic sectors and activities have a proven potential to enable such avoidance, reduction and removal for other economic sectors and activities, or to ensure long-term storage of such emissions for other sectors and activities.