Meeting in Luxembourg, the EU27 Environment Ministers agreed, on Wednesday 29 June, to change the pace of the phasing out of free emission allowances compared to the mechanism provided for by the European Commission in its proposal to revise the EU’s Emissions Trading System (ETS).
This was one of the points that forced Member States to negotiate for long hours, during a marathon session at the end of which they finally managed to adopt a common negotiating position (‘general...