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Finding the perfect balance between the objectives of climate and environmental policy and those of energy and industrial policy is a complex exercise and one that is rarely easy to reach an agreement on. When we add to these two objectives the third of an internal market founded on free circulation of goods and services, the exercise underlying tax calculation – founded on the principle of equal conditions for energy consumers, regardless of energy source used – becomes extremely complex.
However, the European Union has been making great efforts to find that balance. As such, this directive is intended to find a new calculation method, with final taxation based on two elements: CO
emissions and general energy consumption taxation. An important point for Portugal that this directive intends to safeguard is the Member States’ right to apply a level of general energy consumption taxation down to zero on the consumption of energy products and electricity used for agriculture, horticulture and aquaculture, and in forestry. I should also like to congratulate my colleague, Ms Lulling, on her work in an area as sensitive as this."@en1
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