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EU Emissions Trading Scheme: report on indirect compensation payments made to industry in the UK, 2018

EU member states are required to publish the amount of compensation paid to sectors as a result of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS).

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Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
Published
28 March 2019
Last updated
1 April 2019 — See all updates

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Reporting of indirect cost compensation payments made to industry in the UK in 2018

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Article 10a(6) of the revised EU ETS Directive, which took effect on 8 April 2018, requires member states to publish annually the amount of compensation paid to sectors exposed to:

genuine risk of carbon leakage due to significant indirect costs that are actually incurred from greenhouse gas emission costs passed on in electricity prices.

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Published 28 March 2019
Last updated 1 April 2019 + show all updates

  1. Data updated following completion of 2018 EU ETS payments.

  2. First published.

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