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This position paper evaluates the InvestEU Sustainability Proofing Guidance after the 2024 mid-term review, incorporating Implementing Partners\u2019 experience. It recognizes progress in harmonizing sustainability standards but highlights disproportionate administrative burdens. The authors propose limiting proofing to material subprojects or corporate level, delegating legal compliance to institutional processes, and raising financial thresholds to EUR 50 million. Other recommendations include increasing the carbon footprint threshold to 100,000 tCO2e per year, providing a non-binding list of adaptation data sources, simplifying the social dimension in robust legal contexts, relying on professional judgment for economic analysis, and removing the annual sustainability report requirement. 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