Brussels, 04/07/2006 (Agence Europe) - On 4 July, the European Commission adopted a communication reviewing the derogations in the Energy Tax Directive 2003/96/EC. It considers that almost fifty of the 111 derogations expiring at the end of the year are no longer needed and should be abandoned, either because they no longer have any legal basis or have already become obsolete. “No Member State has asked for the exemptions to be renewed,” the spokesman for Laslo Kovacs, the Commissioner...