The Prime Ministers of five Member States (Poland, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary) sent a letter to the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, on Wednesday 24 March, asking them to maintain the existing rules for setting national emission reduction targets for sectors not covered by the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
These targets are defined by the EU Effort Sharing Regulation (2018/842),...