MEPs adopted the own-initiative report by Yannick Jadot (Greens/EFA, France) on the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) by 444 votes in favour, 70 against and 180 abstentions on Wednesday 10 March.
The day before, the text had been amended on a key point of the mechanism: the end of free quotas allocated to companies. The EPP amendment to remove from the text the “parallel, phasing out” of free quotas was adopted by 344 votes in favour, 329 against and 23 abstentions. In...