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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10891
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ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) state aid

Carbon trading aid gets go-ahead, another scheme rejected

Brussels, 18/07/2013 (Agence Europe) - On 17 July, the European Commission gave the go-ahead for a scheme compensating energy-intensive users for CO2 costs in their electricity price as of January 2013 is in line with EU state aid rules because it maintains incentives for the beneficiaries to further reduce their CO2 emissions. The Commission's investigation found that the scheme, in applying the harmonised methodology of the ETS (carbon trading) guidelines, would effectively prevent carbon...

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