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"Mr President, there is the law of unintended consequences, and then there is the law of unintended consequences as it applies to the European Union in its rule-making capacity. Here today we have a policy that says we want to try and reduce emissions and bring low-carbon investments to Europe, but the law of unintended consequences is very clear, in a very small rule that you heard about in this Chamber today from Members from Poland to Ireland to Greece and now the United Kingdom: the border adjustment mechanism will simply drive jobs out of the United Kingdom and across Europe.
We have in the British ceramic sector an industry of some 5 000 people. In concrete we are talking about 15 000 jobs and in industries such as our building industry 2.93 million jobs. All of them are under threat from the fact that this regulation will increase their costs and, as the Commission says, potentially close down 20 factories across Europe. It is a bad law and, once again, it has been made here."@en1
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