The European Commission adopted today the ETS State Aid Guidelines review reducing the list of sectors eligible for compensation for indirect carbon costs and excluding the ceramic tiles sector from this list.
Cerame-Unie stresses that this decision is based on a methodology assuming that carbon costs can be compensated by cutting down on jobs, more particularly in labour intensive sectors mostly composed of SMEs such as Ceramic Tiles.
A Commission decision not to include Ceramic Tiles in the list of sectors exposed to carbon leakage due to indirect carbon costs comes at a great cost for a sector fully committed to 2050 decarbonisation targets through every existing and future technologies at our disposal.
Please find below the Press Release stating the position of Cerame-Unie and the European Ceramic Industry torwards the review of the ETS State Aid Guidelines.