Invited in Europe “Carbon” Regulation will not be discriminatory for Russia, promised the EU ambassador to Russia Marcus Ederor, RIA Novosti reports.
He added that Brussels and Moscow are negotiating, with which the parties can come to consensus. “This is not a tax. It will be a duty to acquire carbon certificates, a non-discriminatory way, because competitors from Europe will also have to acquire relevant certificates for carbon products,” said Ederor.
In the new carbon tax of the EU, there are signs of the formation of barriers to trade, previously said the head of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia Maxim Reshetnikov. In the current embodiment of cross-border carbon regulation (tour), the minister sees signs of laying the cost of CO2 in the price of electricity imports to Europe.
In mid-July, the European Commission presented a new action plan to save ecology, including proposing to introduce cross-border carbon tax on the supply of certain products in the European Union, including metals, cement and fertilizers. Russian companies new fees can cost multi-billion losses.