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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10828

17 April 2013
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / (ae) ets
EP says improvements required for backloading

Brussels, 16/04/2013 (Agence Europe) - Short-term reform of the ETS as it currently stands was rejected by MEPs on Tuesday 16 April in Strasbourg, but this no vote will not be definitive. A small majority (334 votes to 315, with 63 abstentions) rejected the current European Commission proposal to defer the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) timetable through a temporary freeze (backloading) of 900 million quotas on the carbon emission trading market and sent the proposal back to the...

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