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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8909

16 March 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/climate
UK to take Commission's refusal to up British greenhouse gas emissions quota to Court, but will not prevent its businesses from taking part in European emissions trading scheme

Brussels, 15/03/2005 (Agence Europe) - The British authorities intend to bring the decision by the European Commission on the fight against climate change before the Court of Justice. The reason for this is the European Commission's refusal to agree to changes the United Kingdom is proposing to make in its national plan to allocate greenhouse gas emissions quotas, increasing the volume of these quotas by the equivalent of 20 million tonnes of CO2.

However, pending the Court of Justice's...

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