Brussels, 19/03/2014 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 19 March, the European Parliament's environment committee, chaired by Mathias Groote (S&D, Germany), rejected a compromise struck in trialogue with the EP and Council of Ministers on 4 March to extend until 2016 the exemptions from the carbon trading scheme directive (2008/101/EC) currently granted to inter-continental flights (see EUROPE 11032).
It was far from certain that all the MEPs would go along with the compromise deal that would...