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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9306

15 November 2006
Contents Publication in full By article 14 / 38
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/trade/environment
France to propose "carbon" tax to fight environmental dumping

Brussels, 14/11/2006 (Agence Europe) - The French Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin, has indicated that France is to call on its European partners to look into the principle of a "carbon" tax on imports of industrial products from countries which have refused to commit to the Kyoto Protocol post-2012. In order to "reject this form of environmental dumping", France is to make concrete proposals in the first quarter of 2007, he announced. At the same time, Paris intends to look into the...

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