On Tuesday 17 May, MEPs on the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI) adopted (49 votes in favour, 33 against, 5 abstentions) the draft report introducing a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) from 2025. Rapporteur Mohammed Chahim (S&D, Netherlands) welcomed the adoption of all the compromise amendments that EUROPE had detailed in a previous bulletin (see EUROPE B12949A14).
Some of these compromises were not supported by the largest political group, the...