Funnily enough, you actually provided a source earlier.
https://www.rte.ie/news/brexit/2021/...r-ni-protocol/
The goodwill gesture by the commission is in response to the Command Paper presented last week to the British Parliament by David Frost, the UK minster in charge of relations with the EU.
It called for a "standstill period", during which the EU would not proceed with its legal actions against the UK, and the UK would not make any more unilateral moves to disapply parts of the protocol.