Council formally adopts energy-climate package

摘要

The Council of the European Union formally adopted, on 6 April, the six legislative texts that make up the energy-climate change package, thus wrapping up the long Community legislative process.rnThe package comprises:- a directive establishing a revised European Emission Trading Scheme (ETS), which is extended to new sectors of industry and to two new gases in addition to rnCO_2 (nitrous oxide and perflurocar-bons). The goal is a 21% reduction of emissions from these sectors by 2020 compared with 2005 rn- a decision on effort sharing, which spells out the effort to be made by each member state to reduce its emissions in sectors not covered by the ETS.