In Brussels on Tuesday 30 May, the European Parliament’s environment committee backed the draft regulation on the sharing of effort on reducing greenhouse gases in the non-ETS sectors (transport, building, agriculture and waste) among the member states over the period from 2021 to 2030 but they tightened the provisions to block any loopholes (see EUROPE 11756 and 11700).
The proposal was tabled in July 2016 with the aim, in these sectors which represent 60% of the European Union’s...