This contribution presents Ericsson’s response to the Call for Proposals for Video Coding for Machines, which was issued by SC 29/WG 2 in April 2022. The proposed method only changes the VTM encoder, i.e., the bitstream is VVC compliant and the decoder unchanged. The proposed method is reported to work by setting QP offsets on a CTU basis without any additionally signaled metadata and no postprocessing was used to obtain the results. A BD-rate gain of around −23% is reported for the two video datasets that were used in the evaluation of the CfP. It is also reported that the method can be implemented on other standards such as HEVC as well.