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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11557
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SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) energy

Parliament committee backs compulsory collection of household energy cost data

Brussels, 24/05/2016 (Agence Europe) - In adopting the report by Barbara Kappel (ENF, Austria) by 41 votes to 6, with 3 abstentions on Tuesday 24 May, the European Parliament's energy committee gave strong support to the Commission's legislative proposal making compulsory the collection of statistical data on households' energy consumption and gathering data that allows comparison among member states from one year to another. Hitherto, collection has been voluntary.

Currently, only...

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