Commission Decision on carbon leakage published

Commission Decision 2010/2/EU determining a list of sectors and subsectors which are deemed to be exposed to a significant risk of carbon leakage has been published in the European Union’s Official Journal (OJ). Under the Decision, 164 sectors and subsectors will receive free carbon allowances from 2013 onwards according to stringent benchmarks. The 164 sectors and sub sectors on the list account for around a quarter of total EU ETSⁱ emissions and just over three quarters of manufacturing emissions covered by the scheme. The cement industry qualifies as a sector vulnerable to carbon leakage on the basis of an increase in production cost, directly and indirectly induced by the ETS, in excess of 30% of GVA, an increase amounting to 45.5% in the cement sector..

The Commission Decision can be found here:

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:001:0010:0018:EN:PDF

It may be revisted, through the same procedure, as part of the ETS review.