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I voted emphatically in favour of the Lulling report on major changes to the taxation legislation relating to energy products and electricity. The current excise duty system for energy provides insufficient encouragement for energy consumers to use less energy and to opt for cleaner energy. Sometimes, the taxation system even encourages consumers to choose forms of energy which produce more pollution, such as coal. This makes no sense. We all benefit from switching to cleaner energy, more efficient energy use and the reduction of CO
emissions. Changes in energy taxation regulations will make an important contribution to that.
We, in the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats), support the principle that taxes on motor fuels, fuel oil and electricity should henceforth be based on energy content as CO
emissions and, in addition, that a product should be taxed more heavily the more polluting it is. However, we could not support the principle of proportionality because this would have led to a sharp rise in the price of diesel, with all the negative consequences for companies and private consumers that would entail. It is now for the Council to deal with this considered opinion of Parliament wisely."@en1
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