STEEL INDUSTRY WANTS CLEAR SIGNAL FROM EUROPEAN SUMMIT ON EMISSIONS POLICIES
October 1st, 2014
The European steel industry has asked for a signal from the European Council that it can keep on working in Europe and Germany especially, working with an emissions control system that enables it to compete globally. Speaking to Steel First ahead of the European summit which begins tomorrow (Oct 23), Bernd Overmaat, the compliance spokesperson for the world’s largest steel producer ThyssenKrupp AG, said emission certificates should be allocated free of charge under the EU’s emissions trading system. While he said Europe’s most efficient steel plants should ...
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