The draft report by MEP Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy (ALDE, Netherlands), published on Monday 9 January, on the proposal for a regulation on effort-sharing among the member states on reducing greenhouse gas emissions in non-ETS sectors (transport, buildings, agriculture and waste) seeks to restrict the flexibility offered to countries in achieving their national targets.
This is no mean challenge since this key proposal of the “summer package” presented by the Commission in July is to allow the...