EMEA > EU court ruling could see hundreds of emitters escape ETS -lawyer

EU court ruling could see hundreds of emitters escape ETS -lawyer

Published 18:07 on February 28, 2018  /  Last updated at 14:57 on March 1, 2018  / Ben Garside /  EMEA, EU ETS

The EU’s highest court on Wednesday ruled that a German plastics firm should not be covered by the EU ETS, a decision that a lawyer in the case said could set a precedent for potentially hundreds of emitters with compliance obligations under the bloc's carbon market.
The EU’s highest court on Wednesday ruled that a German plastics firm should not be covered by the EU ETS, a decision that a lawyer in the case said could set a precedent for potentially hundreds of emitters with compliance obligations under the bloc's carbon market.


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