Press Release: Emissions trading: Member States unanimously back European Commission proposed rules for auctioning of allowances

The European Commission welcomed the vote taken on 14 July 2010 by the Climate Change Committee in support of the Commission's proposal for a Regulation governing the auctioning of emission allowances under the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS).

The draft Regulation lays down the rules for auctioning emission allowances valid for the third trading period of the EU ETS starting in 2013 as well as allowances to be used by aircraft operators already as from 2012. The Commission will now submit the draft Regulation to the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union for a three-month scrutiny period.

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European Commission: Memo/10/338: Emissions trading: Q&As on the EU ETS Auctioning Regulation http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/10/338&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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