The 2012 Commission report on the state of the carbon market presents options as regards structural measures to strengthen the EU’s emissions trading scheme (ETS) and to make it more effective.
This oral question focuses on the steps the Commission is planning to take to ensure that the structural measures will correct the shortcomings of the emissions trading scheme and enable it to work as originally envisaged, while strengthening its stability and predictability, and promoting links with other trading schemes. A resolution proposing a number of potential measures was defeated in ENVI by a centre-right majority because it included a provision calling for one of the potential measures to be considered to be an increase of the GHG emissions from -20% to -25% by 2020.