The European Commission is threatening to withdraw new rules designed to protect the health of European forests — the second time in less than a week the EU executive has made such a threat.

Last Friday the Commission threatened to withdraw another proposed green law, the Green Claims Directive, although for very different reasons.

With green claims, the Commission said member countries were pushing for the laws to go too far. But this time, in a draft statement seen by POLITICO, the Commission said that member countries’ position isn’t ambitious enough.

“The Commission hopes that its main concerns can be addressed in the course of the legislative procedure,” warns the statement. “If the current draft Council position were to be confirmed by the co-legislators, the Commission might consider withdrawing the proposal.”

The forest monitoring law sets out rules for collecting data on the health of Europe’s forests, with the goal of improving management and protecting them from the effects of climate change.

The proposed changes in the draft Council position, which is to be adopted Tuesday by EU agriculture ministers, include deleting key indicators that were meant to monitor forests’ health through the EU’s Copernicus earth observation program.

Member countries also push for deleting requirements to share information, which the Commission said would mean countries were subject to “unnecessary burden” of data collection, without any of the benefits of data sharing.

The option to abandon the file has been floated by the Commission during negotiations in recent months, POLITICO reported last week.

Meanwhile, MEPs are still working on their position on the file. A vote on the Parliament’s report originally expected next month has been moved to Sept. 23, according to a Parliament official, to give extra time to resolve the deadlock around this piece of legislation.