MEPs had until midnight on Tuesday 12 September to lodge an objection to the mandate adopted by the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) on the reform of the electricity market on 19 July (see EUROPE B13226A1).
Opposed to the text restricting access to CfDs (contracts for differences) for existing nuclear power plants, Christophe Grudler (Renew Europe, French) set about collecting the 71 signatures needed from individual MEPs to “defy” the mandate to bring the text into...