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France proposes EU carbon leakage thresholds

ENDS Europe
Monday 1 December 2008

The French EU presidency has taken a step further towards deciding which European firms would get free carbon trading allowances from 2013 by proposing thresholds to define industrial sectors at risk of carbon leakage. France tabled its ideas at a meeting of government officials in Brussels on Friday, an EU source told ENDS.

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Danish presidency programme

The Danish government presents the programme of the Danish Presidency of the Council of the European Union ‘Europe at work'

Denmark took over the presidency of the EU on 1 January.

Read ENDS article on its provisional agenda of meetings

See also its website and full programme of work officially presented on 6 January