EU: EMF demands “secure planning” for steel and aluminum industries concerning the reduction of CO2 emissions

The European Metalworkers' Federation (EMF) supports the demand made by the EU Industry Commissioner, Günter Verheugen, to come to a quick decision regarding which energy-intensive industries are to be exempted from the auctioneering of CO2 certificates planned for 2013 onwards. (Ref. 080189)
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For several months now, the EMF has been warning against the negative impact of the European Commission’s strategy to fight against climatic change on employment in some sectors (see our dispatch No. 080048). It demands “free allocation of emission rights for those energy-intensive industries whose process-related production would barely allow any further emission reduction”. This is why the trade union federation supports Commissioner Verheugen’s proposition to quicken heads of States’ decisio

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