The Proposal for new energy efficiency directive – some questions as regards early actions at the level of enterprises
- Category: Energy efficiency
Entrepreneurs who wish to prepare for the implementation of the new energy efficiency directive and become “early movers” or even to establish potential consequences, in particular, costs for adjustment to the prospective provisions, may face some difficulties.
Beneath a few potential dilemmas of crucial importance.
Banking of CO2 allowances operates onwards not backwards
- Category: Auctions of CO2 allowances
The draft Commission Regulation amending Regulation (EU) No 1031/2010 determines the volumes of greenhouse gas emission allowances to be auctioned prior to 2013. But it should be remembered that EUAs sold in early auctions starting in 2012 will be barred from compliance use in the second trading period.
Draft REMIT Regulation does not cover EUAs – but for how long?
- Category: Emissions trading
From the systemic point of view there is no reason, why gas would be treated differently, for the purposes of establishing a coherent regulatory regime for the integrity and transparency of the wholesale energy products, than other fuels for the production of the electricity - like coal, oil and even biomass.
The environmental disclosure obligation under EMAS and confidentiality of commercial or industrial data
- Category: Legal Alert
How to reconcile the two values mentioned in the title above? Does the decision to participate in EMAS mean the waiver of the company’s right to protect confidentiality of the environmental commercial or industrial information? Nothing of the kind. The EMAS Regulation contains a clause on this occasion, proposing indexing information against a baseline year.
CO2 emission performance standard – UK goes further than IED Directive
- Category: Emissions trading
On the surge of recent criticism as regards poor performance of the EU ETS as a means of emission reductions, EPS is minded as a regulatory backstop which will limit the emissions from new fossil-fired power stations. It has to be taken into account in any power generation business projections – in the UK for now.
Carbon price floor – managed or marketable price for carbon?
- Category: taxation issues
The notion of the ‘carbon price floor’ (fashionable recently) makes at the first glance think of a minimum price for EUAs when traded on the market. And immediately a reservation comes to mind – how could it generally be possible to influence on prices for EUAs by such a rigorous regulatory means when inherent, pivotal component of the EU ETS is a free interaction of the demand and supply? And how could it be made only in UK when emission trading is, as a principle, pan-European? There is also a practical ambiguity, notwithstanding the legal character of the measure at issue, what will be its impact on prices on the European emissions marketplace?
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